EF56 VSB Adult Education survey, adverb clauses

 

English Foundations 5/6

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30.

 

*REMINDER- Monday October 11^th is Thanksgiving. No school.

 

Today’s agenda

·      VSB Education Plan

·      Continue adverb clauses- practice

 

 

Wednesday

·      Review adverb clauses – your examples from homework

·      MAYBE Causative verbs. I emailed this to you yesterday.

·      Recall marks structure- registration for November will start soon

·      Begin “Rosa Parks”

·      HW        Read “Viola Desmond” for homework

 

 

Thursday

·      Review structure of paragraph

·      “Paragraph Sum Up”

Paragraph writing practice

Topics:

·      Read through “Viola Desmond”. Class ten words for adverb clause quiz tomorrow (not too hard, not too easy)

·      Teach some phrasal verbs

https://7esl.com/phrasal-verbs/#Phrasal_Verbs_List_by_Topics

Choose a work or scroll down to the Topics.

Possible choice- “Phrasal Verbs for Problems”

·      HW   Prepare for Quiz#3 on adverb clauses tomorrow. Review ten

vocab words.

 

 

Friday

·      Quiz#3- adverb clauses

·      “Little Rock Nine”

·      Begin noun clauses

·       

 

 

Tuesday

·      Test#3- paragraph about Rosa or Viola

 

 

 

 

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Vancouver School Board Five-Year Education Plan

http://survey.alchemer-ca.com/s3/50120541/VSBEdPlan2026-SecondaryAdultEd

 

There used to be seven adult education schools in Vancouver.

Now there are only two.

We used to have almost 300 teachers.

Now we have less than 40.

Education is for all ages.

I want Adult Education to survive for many many more years.

 

We can give our opinion about AdED to the school board.

 

Open this URL:

http://survey.alchemer-ca.com/s3/50120541/VSBEdPlan2026-SecondaryAdultEd

(If you cannnot click on the link, grab and copt it. (CTRL+C).

Paste it in your web browser (CTRL+V)

 

Homework: Do the survey today or tomorrow. Email me when you have done it.

“I did it.”

 

Adult Ed used to offer more classes. e.g. French, Law, Japanese, Art History. Now we have have been shrtunk down to just two schools.

We offer mostly only Englsh, math, science, and social studies.

 

 

IMPORTANT

Start to think about what you want to do after Adult Ed. When you choose a program and a college, you can choose which high school you need.

Guaranteed- You will need English 12 for almost everything.

If you need some help with choosing a postsecondary (college or university) programs, applications, etc. we have advisors who are experts in postsecondary programs.

 

vcc.ca

ubc.ca

sfu.ca

bcit.ca

langara.ca

 

We climb the mountain step by step.

Work hard.

If you feel bad about something like your school work, soccer playing, math, do some work on it. You will feel better about it.

Do some daily work. Don’t waste time.

 

 

 

Continue with adverb clauses. Pick up from yesterday.

 

**Source of confusion- difference between compound and complex sentences, specifically transitional terms and adverbial conjunctions (adverb clause words)

 

* Compound sentence – transitional term

It snowed last night; therefore, the roads were slick this morning.

* Complex sentence – adverbial conjunction (adverb clause words)

The roads were slick this morning because it snowed last night.

 

These are different kinds of sentences. They may look similar, but they are not. Definitely you will get them confused sometimes.

 

NOTE: You have to be learning those on your own. If you do not learn them, your writing will remain at the level it is now.

To be clear: You can learn these, but you have to learn these. Daily practice is the secret.

If you practice, good for you. You are doing the work that you have to do in order to improve your writing.

If not, then that is your decision. You can decide to start doing the work at any time- today or next week or five years from now. Up to you.

 

Very simple advice to you and to me:

If you want to learn piano, play piano a little bit every day. In a year, you’ll be good.

If you want to learn piano to write sentence styles in English, play

piano practice the sentence styles a little bit every day. In a year, you’ll be good.

 

When your English is getting better, you will feel great! However, you have to do the work.

 

 

If you learn these, you will be able to express 99.9% of your ideas.

 

 

*if

Sarah will go to the party if she is free.

We will go to the park if it is sunny.

If it is sunny, we will go to the park.

 

*even if

Sarah will not go to the party even if she is free.

We will go to the park even if it is not sunny.

 

I will buy a new phone if I can afford it. Will I buy a new phone? YES/NO

I will not buy a new phone even if I can afford it. Will I buy a new phone? NO

 

 

These are very powerful terms that you can use to express your thoughts. Often, I tell students that should become familiar with authentic, real English. This is real English that we use all day, every day.

 

* even though – the situation is true, not conditional

* even if – maybe YES, maybe NO, conditional

Sheila will not go to the party even though she was invited. Was she invited? YES

Sheila will not go to the party even if she is invited. Was she invited? Uncertain.

I go kayaking even if it is raining.

 

 

*provided that – ‘if’ for important things

Let’s grab some coffee if you’re free. – not important

You can change your career provided that you have made a good plan.

- sounds important

You can go to UBC if/provided that you have the prereqs. (prerequisite courses)

provided that – makes it sound important

You can choose when to use it.

going to the beach?

getting married?

immigrating to a new country?

getting some ice cream?

 

We can continue to be friends provided that you recipicate the support I give you.

 

grab some coffee- (casual) have some coffee

 

*unless – changes the situation, opposite of ‘if’ ‘provided that’

Let’s grab some coffee if you’re free.

Let’s grab some coffee unless you’re busy.

Sarah will go to the beach if it is nice on Saturday.

Sarah will go to the beach unless it is rainy on Saturday.

 

Let’s take a raincheck on coffee if you are busy. (idiom)

take a raincheck – we will do it later, postpone

 

Let’s go for a hike this Saturday.

Oh, I can’t. Can I take a raincheck?

 

Do you want to go for a walk today?

I have a doctor’s appointment. Can I take a raincheck?

 

Doctor’s assistant: Can you come next Wednesday at 3?

You: I have to take a raincheck. I’m busy. I’m already booked. How about Thursday at 2?

 

 

* though (a bit more casual), although, even though – same meaning

Dave is playing with his kids even though he has a lot of work to do.

I like the weather even though/ although/ though it is very hot.

 

TWO DIFFERENT WAYS

I like the weather although it is very hot.

Although it is very hot, I like the weather.

 

 

* so ... that

so ADJ that

Jun is so tall that she has trouble buying pants.

Yesterday was so hot that Mike sat inside of his refrigerator.

The kitten is so small that you can hold it in the palm of your hand.

Sarah is so tired that she is nodding off in the meeting.

IDIOM nodding off- falling asleep

 

SAME MEANING- DIFFERENT STYLE

Because Jun is so tall, she has trouble buying pants.

 

 

‘, so’  and ‘so ... that’ are not the same thing.

,so COMPOUND

so... that COMPLEX

 

 

These terms and words can change the way you express yourself in English. They can really help you express your thoughts and ideas clearly. They are very powerful tools, and you should learn to use them.

 

NOTE: ‘simple’ – several uses

Used for simple sentences. Used for simple verb tenses

-confusing

 

 

cause- because, since

because – easiest one

The little girl is tired because she was running around the park all day.

 The little girl is tired since she was running around the park all day.

 

since – two meaning – time, cause

 

due to + noun

The little girl is tired due to her running around the park all day. awk

The school is closed today due to snow. due to + noun

The school is closed today because of snow. simple

The school is closed today due to snow. simple

 

We can see the many many variations that we can write.

For this class, I will stick mostly to the basic SIMPLE, COMPOUND, and COMPLEX.

 

 

TRUE FACT: It is difficult to differentiate between these right now. That will come with practice.

 

 

These are very powerful terms that you can use to express your thoughts. Often, I tell students that should become familiar with authentic, real English. This is real English that we use all day, every day.

 

These terms and words can change the way you express yourself in English. They can really help you express your thoughts and ideas clearly. They are very powerful tools, and you should learn to use them.

 

 

We can see the many many variations that we can write.

For this class, I will stick mostly to the basic SIMPLE, COMPOUND, and COMPLEX.

 

 

 

Focus on these most useful ones:

after/before

since

until

when/while

if

even if

unless

though/although/even though

so ... that

because

 

Let’s do some practice sentences on our own. Send me some of your practice sentences by email. We can go over them tomorrow. Do some of the easier one; try some of the ones you don’f know, too.

 

after

After I finish work, I have to pick up my son at school.

I have to pick up my son at school after I finish work.