EF5/6 First day

Class blog 

English Foundations 5/6

8:30-12:00, 3.5 hours a day

Regular classes from September to June, 2.25 hours per day

working hard but stay relaxed

July 8, 2019- August 9, 2019
five weeks
BC Day- Holiday, no school August 5th, Monday

24 classes in total * 3.5 hrs = 84 hrs for the summer

Regular classes from September to June, 2.25 hours per day = 100 hrs

Al Haley
ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

VSB Vancouver School Board

Board of Directors in a business - organizers, bosses


Theme - central idea of a story, movie, piece of music, art, painting

Theme of a course: Freedom, Rights, Happiness, Revenge, etc.

The theme of this is FREEDOM

poems, stories, work - loosely based on this theme

Quarter system 
Q1 September - November
Q2 November- January
Q3 February- April
Q4 April - June
SUMMER

Foundations 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Academic 10,11,12

Foundations 7/ English 10 - same class

Foundations 7 is for students who have finished high school here or in another place.

English 10 level is for students who have not graduated from high school anywhere

English 11
English 12

College and university (post-secondary) programs require different classes.
English 12
Chemistry 12
Precalc 12

Make an appointment with an academic advisor.

Public access to computers and internet:
VPL (Vancouver Public Library), community centres

Reading is great way to spend your freetime.
good for the brain
educational

genre - type (French)
genres of fiction - not true- made-up stories 
romance, poetry, mystery, action, horror, science-fiction

genres of non-fiction - true stories
sports, cooking, fashion, cars, music, biography, history

biography- bio-life, biology
ology - study of
graph  - picture

geology - geo-earth, geography

autobiography auto-self

automobile - self move
automatic - self machine

Writing
It is absolutely essential  to be able to write good sentences. They don't have to be fancy.
SIMPLE, COMPOUND, COMPLEX

Paragraphs - structure and process, 6-8 sentences on a single topic

Essays - multiple-paragraphs, 4-6 paragraphs on a single topic. FOCUS on 5-paragraph essays, high school, college, university -basic model of an academic essay

Quizzes                         - 3 pts each
Tests (paragraph)          - 7 pts each
Essay 1-2                      - 10 pts each
REWRITE (optional)   - 1 bonus pt each
Spoken mark in-class   - 20 pts


I hope that you will learn some interesting new things in this class.



LebanonTaiwanIranChinaIndia
Morocco
Indonesia
Korea
Syria
The Philippines
Kuwait
Java
Montreal, Canada
Sri Lanka
Mexico
Egypt

We have an international class.