Wednesday, 15 April 2026

P2 EF710 Class 39

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Talk about replacement quiz and test tomorrow

·      One final presentation-

·      Sentence Combining practice

·      “Superstitions”

·      Tongue Twisters

·      GAME Two truths, one lie. OR Guess it!

 

Thursday, April 16

·      Return essay

RW for 1 point

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test (final 70 m)

You can decide if you want to do the replacement quiz or test.

This is for the people who haven’t done it yet.

Replacement quiz- six sentence combining

Replacement test- paragraph

 

Friday, April 17- final day

·      One-on-one meetings, final marks and comments. You can take a picture if you want.

Final percentage and comments about ORAL and WRITTEN. Also, NEXT STEPS

I will submit the final marks and comments to the office.

You will be able to pick up your report sheet starting next week. I’m not which day.

·      You can just chill. You can hang out and relax.

 

Quarter 4 begins on Thursday, April 23rd.

 

 

 

 

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The marks to come in the next few days:

Essay          x/18

Repl test    x/12

Repl quiz    x/6

Spoken2     x/15

 

Tomorrow:

Optional Replacement test- paragraph, not an essay

150ww

one paragraph

general topic, not Animal Farm

 

Optional Replacement quiz- six sentence combining exercises

Practice today

 

No replacement essay

 

 

PRACTICE

“Nice Surprise”

1.1 It was Friday night. KERNEL

Look for new information.

1.2 Tony was feeling good.

 

What kind of sentence do you envision?

 

SIMPLE  

On Friday night, Tony was feeling good.

Tony was feeling good on Friday night.

Tony was feeling good Friday night.

 

COMPOUND   It was Friday night, and/so Tony was feeling good.

 

COMPLEX Tony was feeling good because it was Friday night.

Because it was Friday night, Tony was feeling good.

 

Because it was Friday night, so Tony was feeling good. XXX

 

COMPOUND-COMPLEX – not enough information

 

 

Let’s try some. Write your sentences on your own paper.

 

 

2.1 He had worked hard.

2.2 He had gotten a raise.

2.3 The raise was unexpected.

 

raise- higher salary, more money

promotion- higher position

She got a promotion which came with a raise.

He got a raise but not a promotion.

Did your promotion come with a raise?

 

COMPOUND

He had worked hard; then he had gotten a raise which was unexpected.

He had worked hard; then he had gotten a unexpected raise.

He had worked hard, so/and he had gotten a unexpected raise.

 

COMPLEX

 

 

The teacher went up a pay scale this year.

She went up a pay scale when she finished her degree.

pay scale- pay grid

 

salary- $ per year/ $ per month

wage- $ per hour, minimum wage

 

In Canada, we talk about salary as income per year.

 

living expenses

 

In China, Iran, Myanmar, and Japan, they talk about salary as income per month.

 

pay period- how often you are paid

- Canada and the US- every two weeks

                     -Japan, China, Iran, Myanmar- once a month

 

You have to budget your money.  budget- money plan

 

IDIOM Money burns a hole in his pocket.

She spends every cent she makes.

He spends money like a drunken sailor.

IDIOM She pisses her money away. She has nothing to show for it.

 

He is a tightwad.

He is tight-fisted.

He is cheap. He is a miser. sound negative

 

He is frugal. sound positive

She is careful with money.

 

Kids are expensive.

 

She is paid on commission. She is a salesperson who is paid according to how much she sells.

 

Ali is paid purely on commission.

Ahmed gets a base salary and also commission.

 

Sherrie gets a wage plus tips as a server.

 

waiter/waitress- server

 

Tips are split between all servers and the kitchen staff.

 

 

bonus- extra money for doing a good job or for reaching some criteria

 

All income is taxable in Canada.

Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) knows how much servers get in tips approximately.

 

CRA will do a personal audit.

 

-dyslexia- number and letter reversals

 

“cash only” – likely tax evasion

 

People are sick of tipping large amounts.

18% 22%

 

My friend’s rule of tipping: No tip if you pay before you eat.

You can tip a percentage or a dollar amount.

 

IDIOM Cash is king! Money talks!

 

 

 

He had worked hard and had gotten an unexpected raise.

He had gotten an unexpected raise because he had worked hard.

 

 

3.1 His boss had praised his efforts.

3.2 His boss was a hardworking woman.

His boss was a hardworking woman who had praised his efforts.

His boss who was a hardworking woman had praised his efforts.

His boss was a hardworking woman, and she had praised his efforts.

 

4.1 Then she had handed him a paycheque.

4.2 The paycheques contained a bonus.

4.3 The bonus was small but worthwhile.

 

Then she had handed him a paycheque.

contained a bonus

small but worthwhile

 

Then she had handed him a paycheque that contained a small but worthwhile bonus.

Then she had handed him a paycheque with a small but worthwhile bonus.

NEW STYLE OF SENTENCE

Then she had handed him a paycheque containing a small but worthwhile bonus.

VOCAB bonus – one time extra money

She got her end-of-the-year bonus.   Christmas bonus

We got the Baby Bonus.

UCCB- Universal Child Care Benefit- not linked to income?

 

 

He had said to her, “There must be some mistake.”, but she had smiled and assured him otherwise.

 

“There must be some mistake.”, he had said to her, but she had smiled and assured him otherwise.

 

“There must be some mistake.”, he had said to her, but she had assured him otherwise with a smile.

 

 

6. Tony had liked the extra money, but the recognition and acknowledgement of his efforts please him even more.

 

7. Maybe his effort and attitude really mattered, and his job could be more than a meal ticket.

 

IDIOM meal ticket- a way of getting money

My car is my meal ticket.

She is Joe’s meal ticket. She is the breadwinner.

Her voice is her meal ticket.

 

8. He had worked hard all week and hadn’t thought anyone would notice; now he knew otherwise.

 

He thought it would be easy to learn English; now he knows otherwise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“Superstitions”

 

superstition- believe in good luck and bad luck

 

superstitious(adj)- She is superstitious.

 

What is a superstitious that you do?

-Chinese avoid 4

-avoid 13

 

-spill salt

 

 

Friday the 13th- bad luck day

China- 4 bad luck   8 good luck

Canada- 13 bad luck   7 good luck

Lucky 7!

 

Canada - Touch wood. good luck

Knock on wood. tap your head- funny

 

salt- superstitions all around the world

Korea after a funeral –

Japan – sumo

 

Chinese - crow cawing in the morning

Raven

Crows has long memories. Crows are smart

Ravens are very smart.

 

 

the evil eye- put a curse or somebody, put a hex on somebody, put bad luck on somebody, jinx somebody

 

sacred- holy, of religious value

 

 

Vocabulary Preview

 

good luck – cross your fingers, a rabbit’s foot

 

good luck streak- good fortune again and again

 

bad luck streak

 

 

bad luck – black cat crosses in front of you

-         break a mirror, seven years bad luck

-         open an umbrella inside

 

jink- give the evil eye to somebody, out a hex on somebody

 

good luck streak-

bad luck streak

 

 

P1 EF710 Class 39

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Talk about replacement quiz and test tomorrow

·      Sentence Combining practice

·      “Superstitions”

·      Tongue Twisters

·      GAME Two truths, one lie. OR Guess it!

 

Thursday, April 16

·      Return essay

RW for 1 point

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test (final 70 m)

You can decide if you want to do the replacement quiz or test.

This is for the people who haven’t done it yet.

Replacement quiz- six sentence combining

Replacement test- paragraph

 

Friday, April 17- final day

·      One-on-one meetings, final marks and comments. You can take a picture if you want.

Final percentage and comments about ORAL and WRITTEN. Also, NEXT STEPS

I will submit the final marks and comments to the office.

You will be able to pick up your report sheet starting next week. I’m not which day.

·      You can just chill. You can hang out and relax.

 

Quarter 4 begins on Thursday, April 23rd.

 

 

 

 

***

The marks to come in the next few days:

Essay          x/18

Repl test    x/12

Repl quiz    x/6

Spoken2     x/15

 

Optional Replacement test- paragraph, not an essay

150ww

one paragraph

general topic, not Animal Farm

 

Optional Replacement quiz- six sentence combining exercises

 

 

PRACTICE

“Nice Surprise”

1.1 It was Friday night. KERNEL

1.2 Tony was feeling good.

Look for new information.

 

What kind of sentence do you envision?

SIMPLE   On Friday night, Tony was feeling good.

COMPOUND   It was Friday night, and Tony was feeling good.

COMPLEX Tony was feeling good because it was Friday night.

COMPOUND-COMPLEX

 

Let’s try some. Write your sentences on your own paper.

 

 

 

 

 

2.1 He had worked hard.

2.2 He had gotten a raise.

2.3 The raise was unexpected.

 

 

promotion- higher position

raise- more money

salary- $ per year/ $ per month

wage- $ per hour

In Canada, we talk about salary as income per year.

In China, Iran, and Japan, they talk about salary as income per month.

pay period- how often you are paid- Canada and the US- every two weeks

                                                              -Japan, China- once a month

 

She is paid on commission. She is a salesperson who is paid according to how much she sells.

 

Ali is paid purely on commission.

Ahmed gets a base salary and also commission.

Sherrie gets a wage plus tips as a server.

 

bonus- extra money for doing a good job or for reaching some criteria

 

All income is taxable.

CRA knows how much servers get in tips approximately.

 

People are sick of tipping large amounts.

 

My friend’s rule of tipping: No tip if you pay before you eat.

You can tip a percentage or a dollar amount.

 

Cash is king!

 

 

He had worked hard and had gotten an unexpected raise.

He had gotten an unexpected raise because he had worked hard.

 

 

3.1 His boss had praised his efforts.

3.2 His boss was a hardworking woman.

His boss was a hardworking woman who had praised his efforts.

His boss who was a hardworking woman had praised his efforts.

His boss was a hardworking woman, and she had praised his efforts.

 

4.1 Then she had handed him a paycheque.

4.2 The paycheques contained a bonus.

4.3 The bonus was small but worthwhile.

 

Then she had handed him a paycheque.

contained a bonus

small but worthwhile

 

Then she had handed him a paycheque that contained a small but worthwhile bonus.

Then she had handed him a paycheque with a small but worthwhile bonus.

NEW STYLE OF SENTENCE

Then she had handed him a paycheque containing a small but worthwhile bonus.

 

He had said to her, “There must be some mistake.”, but she had smiled and assured him otherwise.

 

“There must be some mistake.”, he had said to her, but she had smiled and assured him otherwise.

 

“There must be some mistake.”, he had said to her, but she had assured him otherwise with a smile.

 

 

6. Tony had liked the extra money, but the recognition and acknowledgement of his efforts please him even more.

 

7. Maybe his effort and attitude really mattered, and his job could be more than a meal ticket.

 

IDIOM meal ticket- a way of getting money

 

She is Joe’s meal ticket.

 

8. He had worked hard all week and hadn’t thought anyone would notice; now he knew otherwise.

 

He thought it would be easy to learn English; now he knows otherwise.

 

 

 

**

“Superstitions”

 

superstition- believe in good luck and bad luck

 

Friday the 13th- bad luck day

China- 4 bad luck   8 good luck

Canada- 13 bad luck   7 good luck

Lucky 7!

 

Canada - Touch wood. good luck

salt- superstitions all around the world

 

 

funeral

crow cawing in the morning

 

Crows has long memories. Crows are smart

 

the evil eye- put a curse or somebody, put a hex on somebody, put bad luck on somebody, jinx somebody

 

Vocabulary Preview

 

good luck – cross your fingers, a rabbit’s foot

 

good luck streak- good fortune again and again

 

bad luck streak

 

 

bad luck – black cat crosses in front of you

-         break a mirror, seven years bad luck

-         open an umbrella inside

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 14 April 2026

P2 EF710 Class 38

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

Animal Farm collect novels

Essay Plan

Five-paragraph essay to pass in

 

Wednesday, April 15

Review

Fun things

 

Thursday, April 16

Return essay

RW for 1 point

Optional replacement quiz and/or test

You can decide if you want to do the replacement quiz or test.

This is for the people who haven’t done it yet.

Replacement quiz- six sentence combining

Replacement test- paragraph

 

Friday, April 17- final day

One-on-one meetings, final marks and comments

You can just chill. You can hang out and relax.

 

Quarter 4 begins on Thursday, April 23rd.

 

 

 

 

**

 

5-paragraph essays typically consist of an introductory paragraph, three supporting body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.

 

Introductory paragraph

 

Body paragraph 1- Reason 1

Body paragraph 2- Reason 2

Body paragraph 3- Reason 3

 

Concluding paragraph

 

 

The introductory paragraph should give a preview of what’s to come without giving it away. Each body paragraph should have supporting information, such as stories, facts, statistics, and more. The concluding paragraph should summarize the key points.

 

This is like following a recipe. I think about writing like cooking. A beginner writer has to follow a recipe very closely. When you get some experience cooking, you don’t need the recipe book anymore.

 

When you get comfortable writing essay after 3-4 tries, then you can follow your own style.

 

The style that I am teaching is very basic and clear. It is simple and ‘easy’ to do. You can get fancier with your essays later.

 

There are lots of different kinds of essays.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plan first!

Then write.

 

1.PREWRITING – planning your essay, making a little plan to organize what you want to say in each paragraph in your essay

 

2.WRITING- actually writing the sentences and paragraphs

 

 

 

 

PLOs- Writing and Representing

C1- “using conventions, forms, and structures of writing”

*simple, compound, complex, compound-complex sentences-

verb tense, verb form, punctuation, spelling, etc

 

C5- “generate, develop, and organize ideas”

*clearly organized clear plan, on-topic

 

 

P1 EF71011 Class 38

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Animal Farm collect novels

·      Essay Plan

·      Five-paragraph essay to pass in

 

Wednesday, April 15

·      Review

·      Fun things

 

Thursday, April 16

·      Return essay

RW for 1 point

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test

You can decide if you want to do the replacement quiz or test.

This is for the people who haven’t done it yet.

Replacement quiz- six sentence combining

Replacement test- paragraph

 

Friday, April 17- final day

·      One-on-one meetings, final marks and comments

·      You can just chill. You can hang out and relax.

 

Quarter 4 begins on Thursday, April 23rd.

 

**

 

 

5-paragraph essays typically consist of an introductory paragraph, three supporting body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. For example, if someone was writing a 5 paragraph essay on why basketball is the best sport ever, their essay structure might look like this:

 

Introductory paragraph

Body paragraph 1- Reason 1

Body paragraph 2- Reason 2

Body paragraph 3- Reason 3

Concluding paragraph

 

The introductory paragraph should give a preview of what’s to come without giving it away. Each body paragraph should have supporting information, such as stories, facts, statistics, and more. The concluding paragraph should summarize the key points.

 

This is like following a recipe. I think about writing like cooking. A beginner writer has to follow a recipe very closely. When you get some experience cooking, you don’t need the recipe book anymore.

 

When you get comfortable writing essay after 3-4 tries, then you can follow your own style.

 

The style that I am teaching is very basic and clear. It is simple and ‘easy’ to do. You can get fancier with your essays later.

 

There are lots of different kinds of essays.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plan first!

Then write.

 

1.PREWRITING – planning your essay, making a little plan to organize what you want to say in each paragraph in your essay

 

2.WRITING- actually writing the sentences and paragraphs

 

PLOs- Writing and Representing

C1- “using conventions, forms, and structures of writing”

*simple, compound, complex, compound-complex sentences-

verb tense, verb form, punctuation, spelling

 

C5- “generate, develop, and organize ideas”

*clearly organized clear plan, on-topic

 

Monday, 13 April 2026

P2 EF710 Class 37

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Animal Farm Chapter 10

Collect novels

Watch movie

·      Return Quiz 3

Optional RW for one point

·      Essay work

Five-paragraph essay Tuesday

 

Tuesday, April 14

·      Five-paragraph essay to pass in

Most of the class

 

Wednesday, April 15

·      Review

·      Fun things

 

Thursday, April 16

·      Return essay

RW for 1 point

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test

You can decide if you want to do the replacement quiz or test.

This is for the people who haven’t done it yet.

Replacement quiz- six sentence combining

Replacement test- paragraph

 

Friday, April 17- final day

·      One-on-one meetings, final marks and comments

·      You can just chill. You can hang out and relax.

 

Quarter 4 begins on Thursday, April 23rd.

 

**

l  Chapter 10 Discussion Notes

 

  pre-rebellion life forgotten, all original animals dead except Clover, Benjamin, Moses, some pigs

  No animals have ever retired

  Benjamin more or less the same, more “morose” and “taciturn” after Boxer

VOCAB “morose”- sad   “taciturn”-untalkative, silent

She is taciturn.

He is a motormouth.

 

She talks/laughs/yells in her sleep.

Butter yelps in his sleep.

 

  new horses- stupid, good workers, comrades, accept everything

  farm prosperous- animals not richer, except dogs and pigs

  many dogs and pigs

  FUNNY pigs write reports, immediately burned (87)

useless bureaucracy – useless government work, paperwork, paper-pushers

 

  animals - no memory of the past/ context to compare quality of life

  Benjamin recalls, cynical- not better or worse

  Squealer spins, always lying to the animals

 

  Animals feel hope “sense of

 

 honour and privilege” (87)

  “imperishable pride” “old heroic days” (88)

  patriotic about Animal Farm

 

VOCAB patriotic – love your country and like to show it

He is patriotic. She is a patriot.

 

 

New lyrics: True patriot love in all of us command.

Old lyrics: True patriot love in all thy son’s command.

 

O -old-fashioned poetic device- shows high emotion

 

  “All animals were equal”

  Squealer reeducates sheep:

     “Four legs good, two legs bad!”

“Four legs good, two legs better!”

 

  Pigs on hind legs, Napoleon with whip

 

  Benjamin reads aloud newly-changed single commandment (90)

“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

 

  pigs wear clothes, smoke pipe, carry whips

 

 

  Big meeting, final scene of book

  pigs and humans together- all friends, speechifying, toasting

 

SUPERSTITION Toasting with water is bad luck.

 

  model farm “did more work and received less food” (92)

  common “labour problems” “you have your lower animals... we have our lower classes” (92)

  Napoleon not “subversive” or “revolutionary”, just want “normal business relations”

  farm co-op “owned by the pigs jointly” (93)

 

VOCAB co-op housing-

 

  renamed the farm, went back to the old name “Manor Farm”

  big fight, card cheats, indistinguishable- read final paragraphs (94-95)

 

BIG QUESTIONS:

What do you think will happen next on Animal Farm?

Will the animals rebel again? Will they not?

 

**

 

 

 

Quiz 3

Combine each group of sentences into one sentence.

Write your six sentences on your own paper.

 

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

 

1.     Everyone had to cook a dish.

The dish was from their culture.

Everyone had to prepare copies of the recipe.

This was done for our neighbourhood party.

 

Everyone had to cook a dish from their culture and prepare copies of the recipe for our neighbourhood party.

 

 

 

2.     We chose to take lentil soup because our family has German heritage.

 

3.     Mom supervised me while I chopped the onions and cut the bacon into small pieces.

 

4.     Then we had to compose the recipe; we really don't have a formal one, but

we couldn't arrive without our stack of recipe cards.

 

5.     That night we were treated to a feast of different food, including a wheat salad from the Middle East.

 

6.     The feast included a potato dish from Switzerland, a lamb dish from Portugal, and a super ice cream from Italy.

 

The feast included a Swiss potato dish, a Portuguese lamb dish, and a super Italian ice cream.

 

Change the word forms for parallelism.

 

Optional RW for a point- pass in today or first thing tomorrow.