EF6 July 7

 Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30.

Cameras on. Mics muted.

Today’s agenda:

1. Continue with simple sentence work. Discuss your example sentences from homework.

2. Discuss ideas from yesterday’s chatting.

Topic for discussion: Adapting to a new country is difficult challenging.

3. Discuss CBC article 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/victoria-captain-cook-statue-vandalized-1.6088828

4. Discuss quiz format for Quiz#1 on simple sentences Thursday

5. Begin compound sentences IF TIME

CBC: interviews, News, music, sports

Radio: CBC 690AM, 88.1FM

Website cbc.ca

podcasts- I will teach about these another day.

Thursday agenda:

1. Quiz#1

2. Correction Codes – I emailed these to you Wednesday morning.

3. Begin compound sentences

4. Quiz#2 soon – Friday or likely Monday

Yesterday – simple sentences (refer to the class blog haleyshec.blogspot.com)

one independent clause- SV, complete idea, doesn’t need help to be a sentence

Different kinds of simple sentences:

SV

SSV

SVV

SSVV

Imperative

Interrogative

Please write one or two of your sentences in Chat. We will share them together anonymously.

1. you are breaking out its hard to hear you

You are breaking up. It’s hard to hear you.

break up – sound is bad, leaving your girlfriend or boyfriend

break out – escape from jail, get acne on your face

2. Emma and Joe are doing their homework. SSV

3. Emma jumps and runs in the park. SVV

4. David and Eric want to go hiking this weekend. SSV

5. My daughter and her husband doesn't make the laundry

My daughter and her husband don’t do the laundry. SSV

6. My little daughter is a monster. SV

7. Tell me what happened.

8. She goes to school at 6 am. SV

9. SV-She likes her. punctuation

10. Ricky went to zoo and then picked up blueberries on a farm.

Ricky went to the zoo and then picked blueberries on a farm.

pick up – give a ride    I picked up my son at the Skytrain station.

pick- choose, take fruit   We picked blueberries in Richmond.

11. Consider the red dress. Imperative, implied subject “You”

12. I eat chocolate. SV

13. Tom and I went to the park. SSV

14. SV - I go to work.

15. SSV - My younger sister and I have a big age gap.

16. SVV - We will wait and see the situation.

17. Mary and Jay are going to the beach. SSV

18. jack and jill went up to the hill. cap

Jack and Jill went up to the hill.

capitalize – the first word in a sentence

- proper nouns- name, city, country, month, day ‘Wednesday’, titles ‘Miss’ ‘Mrs’, I

19. I joined the class and learned a lot of things. SVV

20. Mary loves to travel. SV

21. Lady, can you spare a dime? Sounds copied? SV

22. SV - She likes her.

23. Dillon came off finished/left work late.

24. Ken and John enjoy chatting at Starbucks. SSV

25. stand up. cap

Stand up.

26. I will go to work at night.

Spaces after punctuation- In general, we put one space after punctuation.

e.g. I like chocolate. I eat chocolate almost every day.

Some people put two spaces after a period. That’s ok, but it looks a little bit old-fashioned. You can decide. I used to use two spaces but now use only one. This is a subtle style choice.

e.g. I like chocolate.  I eat chocolate almost every day.

I like chocolate, so I eat chocolate almost every day. COMPOUND SENT

Sentence styles:

SIMPLE I used to use two spaces but now use only one. SVV

COMPOUND I used to use two spaces, but I now use only one. SV SV

COMPLEX

SIMPLE Sarah likes dogs but is afraid of cats. SVV

COMPOUND Sarah likes dogs, but she is afraid of cats. SV SV

afraid(adjective) fear(verb) fear(noun)

Her son is afraid of monsters under his bed. MOST AUTHENTIC adj

Her son fears monsters under his bed. UNUSUAL

Her son has a fear of monsters under the bed. UNUSUAL

GOOD POINT: In simple sentences, we don’t usually need a comma.

The little kids run, and play in the park. XXX

The little kids run and play in the park.

REVIEW for quiz tomorrow

Quiz#1 (25m)

Email this to me as an attachment by 9:30. No lates.

Use 14-16 point font.

Write a simple sentence for each exercise:

e.g. SV school

The kids like to go to school.

1. SV vocab word from CBC article

2. SSV vocab word from CBC article

3. SVV vocab word from CBC article

4. SSVV church

Joe and Joan go to church and pray every Sunday.

5. Interrogative vocab word from CBC article

6. Imperative vocab word from CBC article

We will have our quiz at the beginning of class tomorrow. We will do the quiz in class.

You email it to me on time. I will mark it and get it back to you probably tomorrow.

Related to story about Victorie:

Burning Catholic churches in Canada:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/morinville-church-alberta-burned-fire-1.6085688

Words to review for our quiz tomorrow:

 

statue (n)

grafitti (n)

incident (n)

ceremony (n)

search (n,v)

unsuccessful (adj)

dramatic (adj)

situation (n)

protest (n,v)

peaceful (adj)

damage (n,v)

property (n)

 

I will choose six of these words for the quiz.

articles- a,an,the

* so short, but so tricky

Joan goes to church. Joan goes to a church. – in general

Dave goes to school. Dave goes to a school. -in general

- not talking about a specific church or school

Joan goes to the church on Main and 12th. – specific place

Dave goes to the school at Fraser and 43rd.- specific school

Basic rule:

specific thing, only one: the

general idea, not specific: a, an

Please give me the plate. 

Please give me a plate.

Please give me an apple. There are ten apples. Any of them would be fine.

Please give me the apple. There is only one there.

I will take the #3 bus. I will take that specific bus.

I will take bus. XXX

I will take a bus. I will whatever bus that comes along.

The boy played with a toy.

The boys played with his/some toys.

hospital 

UK I went to hospital.

Canada/US I went to the hospital.

UK I went to the cinema.

Canada/US I went to the movies.

Articles are the hardest part of learning English grammar.

MORE INFORMATION:

https://blog.esllibrary.com/2016/02/11/teaching-articles-a-an-and-the/

IDIOM: If you could pick me up at the airport, I will dance at your wedding.

If you could get me a coffee, I will dance at your wedding.

Discuss ideas from yesterday’s chatting.

Topic for discussion: Adapting to a new country is difficult/challenging.

- language barrier – vocab, grammar, listening, speaking, writing, reading

- culture, culture shock – understanding and accepting people, afriad to make a mistake, do something wrong, shameful, 

You are afraid that people might take you the wrong way.

It never hurts to be friendly. “Hello. Good morning.”

- professional qualifications not recognized in Canada

- living arrangements for families: multi-generational families/nuclear families, family support, take care of each other

- loneliness – missing friends, relatives, contacts, school friends

- food, cooking, ingredients for traditional foods

* I really miss Japanese-style curry.