EF34 11:00 Feb8

 Good morning. If you are looking for English Foundations 3/4 and Writing 3/4 at 11:00.

We are all at the Foundations 3 and 4 level.

You are in the right place.

We will get started at 11:00.

Teacher: Al Haley

First name is fine- Al

I will call you by your first name if you don’t mind.

My email address: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

Today’s plan agenda:

agenda – plan, what we want to do today, business term, professional vocabulary, sounds very professional

1. Zoom class

2. Class procedures

3. Overview of course

4. Quizzes and tests

5. Email protocols

No text books. I will provide everything to you.

Our classes will be held Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

1. Zoom classes- 

All of the classes will be on Zoom.

  You can join the class early.

We will start at 11:00 sharp. 

Change your user name to your real name.

2. Class procedures

I will teach about one hour every day- 11:00 to around 12:00.

Then I will give you some homework. Many people are very busy. You can do as much as you can.

Everything I put on this screen will be posted to my class blog afterward.

blog – web + log

log – written report

My class blog: haleyshec.blogspot.com

My class blog is tremendous resource for you to use.

You can check the blog as much as you like.

You are welcome to talk much as you like. When you are not talking, keep your mic muted. This cuts down on noise.

3. Overview of course

Course dates:

February 8 – April 23

Holidays? I’ll tell you tomorrow.

When you are successful in this class:

English Foundations 3 – EF4

EF4-EF5

This adult education school:

English Foundations classes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Academic classes English 10,11,12

EF7&English10 are the same class-two different kinds of students

Graduated Adults – finished high school anywhere in the world, EF7

non-grads- did not finish high school anywhere in the world, English10

Many people have not finished high school:

e.g. turned 19 before they could finish in BC, family trouble, health challenges (physical and mental), come from country with war, have lived in Canada for a long time, working, raising kids, making money

Everyone is welcome in my class.

We are here to get a little better at English – for school, for life, for work, for yourself.  

Last term I taught 5/6. This term I am teaching just 6.

Sometimes I teacher 2/3; sometimes I teach 3/4.

Every term is different. It depends on the numbers.

THE MAIN THINGS WE WILL BE STUDYING:

a. writing

- very important, most important for school, high school, college, university, job, life

Being able to write well is a wonderful gift that you can give to yourself. I can help. I will teach you.

THREE SENTENCE TYPES

-SIMPLE

-COMPOUND

-COMPLEX

I will teach you these in great detail. I will answer all of your questions as well as I can. We will practice, practice, practice.

PARAGRAPHS- different kinds of paragraphs

- descriptive writing – describe something

- narrative writing – tell a story

- persuasive writing – convince, tell your opinion

- process/expository writing – teach someone how to do something

b. reading

- short stories

- non-fiction

- No novel for this class

c. listening and speaking

The daily class is mainly one hour of me talking.

I will speak at a normal pace, slightly slower than if I were talking with my friends.

The online class feeling is different from classroom. I like to have people in a room, talking with each other, looking at each other, meet some new friends, make some new contacts.

-speaking- You talk as much as you want. Chime in. Join the conversation. Don’t be shy. Ask as many questions as you want.

“Sorry. I have a question. May I ask a question?” YES!! Don’t be shy.

I will be paying attention to who talks and who is silent.

Talkers do better learning English.

Don’t be a Silent Sam or Quiet Quan.

Speaking out loud is very importance for your confidence.

On Zoom, we are missing visual cues, subtle body language

We will do our best.

We usually have a lot of fun in my classes. I hope you will have fun, feel relaxed, and learn a lot.

4. Quizzes and tests

Marks for this course

- Quizzes: worth about 30%, around 7 or 8 quizzes 

sentence work based on grammar we have been learning, six sentences

- Tests: worth about 60%, around 7 or 8 tests

paragraph writing about a story, article, topic of discussion

(100-150 words)

-Extras 5%

All quizzes, tests

- timed, time limit, deadline will be posted

e.g. “Email me the test by 12:30am.”

I will not accept late work, a couple minutes at my discretion

If you need a lot of flexibility with time, a self-paced course may be a better choice for you.

- test or quiz must be sent as an attachment to your email

readable by Microsoft Word

File types: .doc .rtf .txt

If you have MicrosoftWord, use that.

If you don’t have MicrosoftWord, you can use WordPad on Windows PC.

For Apple computers, I don’t know.

Googledocs can be made to work- save the file on your computer and attach it to your email to me.

Attach the file to your email.