Good afternoon, everyone.
This is the Quarter 4 (Q4) Period
2 (P2) (12:00-2:15) class for these courses:
English Foundations 7
Composition 10/Literary Studies
10
Composition 11
We will get started at 12:00
My name is Allan Haley
Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
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Welcome
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Housekeeping
o
Parking
o
Wi-fi for students
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Dates, times for our class
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Class blog
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Communication via email
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Covid protocols
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Course overview- handouts
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Small group chatting- icebreaker
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IF TIME Student Questionnaire
Friday
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Continue Thursday work
COMING UP NEXT WEEK
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Sentence overview
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Paragraph writing- narrative, descriptive,
process, persuasive
**
My name is Allan Haley.
You can call me Allan.
First name is ok.
cultural- polite honorifics,
title
Mister, Mrs.
Doctor
Professor
adult education – first names
casual
all adults
Sir, Ma’am
Can I call you by your first
name?
special title for teacher
Chinese-
Japanese-
Farsi- ?
**
Attendance
I will take attendance at the
beginning of class. If you are late, let me know so I can record your
attendance. That’s your responsibility to let me know.
**Parking**
SHEC provided free parking for
students.
Scan the QR code on the white
piece of paper. You will need a cell phone.
VOCAB QR code- quick response
Put it your licence plate of your
car.
Not your DL- Drivers Licence
Put in your full name.
You will be able to park in the
SHEC parking lot until August 31st, 2026.
If you did last term, you should
be ok.
Do it now or you might get a
ticket.
Unpaid tickets can go to
collections.
A collection agency with harass
with phone calls.
Often you can bargain with
collection agencies.
Pay your bills!
VOCAB deadbeat- someone who doesn’t
pay their bills
He is a deadbeat dad. He doesn’t
provide financial support to his kids.
He is a good provider.
Names- confusing
First name- given name
Last name – family name, surname
Allan Haley
Allan – given name
Haley – family name, surname
legal name – name on your
passport
Cultural- Chinese, Korean,
Vietnamese- reverse of English
Mary Wong- English
Wong, Mei- Chinese
People make this mistake all the
time.
quite confusing
filling out forms, applications-
be cautious
It’s a pain to fix these errors.
IDIOM a pain- difficult
a pain in the ass, a pain in the
neck
The website will send you an
email receipt if you tell it to. Keep that email as a record, as proof that you
signed up for parking.
You may want to sign up again if
you don’t a receipt.
The email receipt will act as
proof if there is a problem.
Sometimes they give out tickets
by mistake.
**Wifi*
SHEC students can use SHEC wifi.
Wifi: VSB-Commons
Wifi password: It’s on the white
piece of paper on the wall. Check it.
*** Course dates and times***
M-F 12:00-2:15
Thursday, April 23rd- Wednesday,
June 24th, 2026
Holiday- non-instructional day
Monday, May 18th - Victoria
Day
VOCAB stat holiday– statutory holiday
London, England- Victoria and
Albert Museum- https://www.vam.ac.uk/?srsltid=AfmBOooX4AKqfjLyoX91rENWhUdHnirMp6_xBI55FPRn-C9UUvaW8ym0
Summer term
Monday, July 6th -
Friday, August 7th (five
weeks)
M-F
3 ½ hours?
P1 8:30-12
P2 12:30-4?
The summer schedule will come out
soon.
You can take only course in the
summer.
Some people take a course in the
summer as a preview for September.
*** Class Blog ***
Everything that you see on this
screen, I will put on our class blog.
class blog- website
CLASS BLOG: haleyshec.blogspot.com
It’s on the course handout which
you get in a few minutes.
I publish these notes on our blog
every day at the end of each class.
You do not have to write every
off the screen as we go.
Nevertheless, making notes during
class is an excellent way to improve retention.
VOCAB retention(noun) – retain(verb),
remember(verb)
Making notes helps you to retain
information.
It’s hard for me to retain new
vocabulary.
NEW VOCAB? blog – weblog- keep a
written record on the internet, public online diary, publish your thoughts
older version of Substack -paid
Some people are bloggers. They
write about their interests.
for examples: movies, travel,
family, food, sports, politics, music, etc
another vehicle - podcasts
VOCAB vehicle- way of communicating
blog
VOCAB portmanteau- two words put
together
smog = smoke + fog
– dirty air hanging over a city, pollution
Beijing had a lot of smog. It has
become better in recent years.
Mexico City is smoggy city.
smoggy(adj)- rainy, sunny, windy,
snowy, smoky
Vancouver is sometimes smoky in
the summer due to forest fires.
She does smoky eye.
eye liner, eye shadow, mascara, false
eyelashes
brunch= breakfast + lunch, 11am,
$$
web- World Wide Web (www),
internet
log- written record
VOCAB
log- piece of a cut down tree
The logging company floats logs
down the Fraser River.
log- written record
keep a log- nurse in a hospital, truck driver, delivery driver,
Uber driver- record events as they occur
The nurse kept a log of her
patients.
important notes, written record
Some people keep a workout log.
The pilot kept a flight log.
The daycare attendants keep a log
of the kids’ activities.
We have a blog for the class.
I will update my blog every day
after class. You can check it and review what we did in class.
You can check the blog as much as
you like. There is no sign-in or no password. It’s all free. It’s all public
and accessible.
Our blog is a tremendous resource
that you can use. You can use it this quarter. You can keep using it after you
finish this course. You can use it forever, until the end of time. I will keep
it up forever.
My blog is searchable. You can
search for something specific that you are looking for.
The search bar is in the upper
lefthand corner of the main blog screen. Search for whatever you want to learn
more about.
The search bar may not appear on
your phone. I will appear on a laptop, ipad, or PC.
On a phone, click on “View web
version” on the bottom of the page. It should refresh with a search bar. The
search bar will be very small.
ACTION
I will post our notes so far.
Go to the blog now. Make sure you
can open it.
haleyshec.blogspot.com
Let me know if you are having
trouble opening my blog.
Did it load?
If yes? Good!
If no? Let me know or ask a
classmate.
Good job!
**Daily Agenda***
Every day I will post an
‘agenda’.
VOCAB agenda- used for meetings,
business or professional meeting,
list of items to talk about,
schedule, plan for the meeting or class
official meeting- e.g. Strata
meeting
You can tell the Chair, “I want
to put an item on the agenda.”
VOCAB chair- leader of a meeting,
keeps the meeting on-track and moving along
OLD VOCAB-chairman, chairperson
NEW VOCAB non-gendered language-
chair, not male or female
Mei is the chair of the meeting.
Western approach to naming jobs-
non-gendered
Examples of non-gendered job
titles:
councilman - councillor
policeman – police officer
fireman – firefighter
on an airplane - steward/stewardess-
flight attendant
waitress/waiter- server
I will be your server tonight.
mailman/postman- letter carrier
handyman? - a person who is good at fixing things around
the house
handy(adj) She is very handy with computers.
He is very handy around the
house. He can do plumbing and electrical.
She is very handy at sewing. She
is good at mending and hemming.
VOCAB- mend(v)- fix or repair
hem(v,
n) – shorten a garment
She hemmed her new pants.
IDIOM mend fences- fix a
relationship
The two sisters mended fences
after two years of silence.
**Ten-minute Break**
VOCAB handy(ADJ)- good at fixing
things around the house
She is very handy.
He is not very handy.
Mei is the chair of the
meeting. noun, person
Mei will chair the meeting
today. verb- run, organize, lead, manage the conversation between the
people
helps to keep the meeting on
track, organized
lets everyone know what to
expect, what is coming
VOCAB news broadcast- anchor
She is the anchor for the CBC
news.
anchor- something to keep a boat
from drifting away
host(v)
He hosted a retirement party.
She is the hostess at the
restaurant. gendered language
IDIOM on track- organized, no
digression, keep on the path
Sue is on track to finish high
school next year.
Sue is in the process of
finishing high school next year. in the middle
The little boy gets off track
with his homework. He is distracted by his phone.
She tries hard to stay on track
with going to the gym three times a week.
IDIOM His plan went out the
window. His plan went off track.
Everyday, we will an agenda.
**Emails***
I sent you an email yesterday.
Did you get it?
If you received that email from
me, than that means we can communicate via email.
If you did not receive an email
from me, that means I do not have your correct email in the computer system. We
will have to fix that.
Check your JUNK folder.
If you did not get my email, the
office may have your incorrect email address. You can change it with the office
in the next few days. I can’t change your email through my computer. The office
has to do it.
I asked you to respond to
ahaley@vsb.bc.ca with your full name and class in the subject line of your
email. Many of you responded to the email as I requested.
I responded “Thank you, Allan”
Thank you for that. I want email communication to be
seamless between us.
VOCAB seamless(adj)- smooth, no problems, no confusion
seam – where two pieces of cloth are sewed, joined, rough
area, bumpy
seamless- not rough, smooth
Registering for this class was seamless. adjective
Taking the Skytrain using a credit card is seamless.
Raising teenagers is rarely seamless.
Immigrating to Canada was not seamless. It can be a rocky
road.
VOCAB rocky road- difficult experience
Is learning English seamless? It is very challenging. It is
also rewarding.
IMPORTANT REMINDER
When you send an email to me or any teacher, please put your
full name and class in the subject line of the email.
Then I will know who you are and what class you are in.
e.g. Joe Ahmed, EF7, P2
Sarah Wong, Comp10, P2
If you forget, you probably won’t get credit for the work.
Remember: full name and class.
***Covid and Transmissible
Disease Protocols***
VOCAB protocol- accepted ways to
act or talk
1. Use sanitizer.
Two bottles of sanitizer at the
front
2. Wash your hands many times a
day.
Use moisturizer/hand lotion.
You can get eczema.
Her skin gets dry.
His hands get chapped.
He had chapped lips. He uses
chapstick.
3. Feel free to wear a mask if you want.
I will not wear a mask while I am
teaching.
We lose the facial expressions.
We lose the lip reading.
Talking on the phone is
challenging.
Face-to-face to easier.
4. In general, if you’re sick,
stay home.
EUPHEMISM – a word that we use
instead of the less polite word
challenging- difficult, hard
BUSINESS TALK The business has experienced some challenges
this quarter.
She is a very challenging person.
She is a Karen.
SLANG Karen- a difficult, complaining, entitled person
He is a Karen.
die – pass away
euphemisms- bathroom, restroom, washroom
teacher- Interesting.
He is opinionated. MEANING He
never shuts his mouth. He is a motormouth.
talkative- gregarious, chatty
VOCAB nag(v) nagging(adj) His mother-in-law nags him. She is a broken
record.
IDIOM broken record- repeats the
same thing over and over
** Course Outlines**
SAME OUTLINE
English Foundations 7
Composition 10/Literary Studies
10
Composition 11
Read the course outline over for
homework.
We will go over the course
outlines tomorrow.
**
Ice-Breaker Exercise
IDIOM ice-breaker – warm up
technique, social game
e.g. party, don’t know anybody-
basic icebreaker nametag, invite to talk
*shy(adj)- afraid of being judged
by others
*introverted- don’t like social
contact, tires them out, drains their battery
*extraverted- love to be social,
love being around people, social interaction charges their battery
Small groups (4-5 people, lots of
energy in the group)
Choose people who do not speak
your language.
Reason #1- easy to fall into
mother language, forced to stick to English
Reason #2- getting used to
different accents among English users
chat- casual talking, relaxed,
pleasant
A. Topics for chatting with your partner(s)
1. Name
2. Home
3. Family
4. Job
5. Hobbies- things you do for fun, like to do,
free time
6. Special skills
7. Travel
8. Future plans
Let’s talk in English.
