English Foundations 5/6
Good morning, everyone.
We will get started at 8:30
Wednesday – Hump Day (slang) (idiom)
hump – bump, speed bump
I hate Mondays!
Thank God it’s Friday! TGIF!
For our new classmates.
Ask somebody if you are not sure what is going on.
Our class blog: haleyshec.blogspot.com
Today’s agenda
·
Email attachments and reading my corrections
·
“Daylight Savings Time”
·
Begin sentence work – simple, compound, complex,
compound complex sentences
·
MAYBE Begin “Goalsetting”
“Email Protocol and Attachments”
Emails and attachments-
Yesterday you sent me an email. You inlcuded a subject line
with your name, class, time.
I responded. I hope it worked ok.
When we do a test, you can send me the test by email.
You have to send it as an attachment.
The attachment is word pro document, either a .doc, a .rtf,
or a .docx file.
I will read your attachment and put comments in the
attachment.
Then I will return the document to you. Yoiu will be able to
read me comments.
REVIEW
1.
Write your quizzes and tests using a word processing
program like Word or Wordpad or Textedit.
2.
Save your quiz or test file on your computer. This file
will be the attachment.
3.
When you save your file, give your file a meaningful
name.
e.g. Don’t name it “Document 15”
Name it “Your
name, class, time, Quiz#”
“Joe
Chen, EF3, 11:00, Quiz2”
4.
Attach your quiz or test file to your email.
5.
In the subject line of the email, write “Your name,
time, class, Quiz#”
6.
Send the email.
7.
I will get your email a few seconds later.
8.
I will read your writing and make comments.
9.
Then I will return your quiz or test to you by email.
10.
You can open the file and read my comments.
HOMEWORK:
If you are planning to do tests and
quizzes with a computer, send me an email with an attachment today by 4PM. I
will open it, make a comment, and sent it back to you.
I will read the attachment and put
a comment in the attachment.
“Can you read this comment?”
You can open it and see if you can
read my comment.
Open up the attachment that I
return to you by email and check if you can read it.
If you can read my comment, everything is
ok.
If you can’t read my comment, we will
figure that out tomorrow.
You can use Microsoft Word (part of Microsoft Office)
(PURCHASE)
There are free options as well:
-Windows computer – Wordpad (comes with Windows). Save your
file as an .rtf
- Google docs https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/
Save: File- Download-
save as .docx
We can keep talking about this tomorrow.
“Daylight Savings Time’
-Small groups 3-4 people, talking
Pre-reading
Discuss Warm-Up questions
Go over the Vocabulary Preview
Daylight Savings Time, confused Time Zones
farming – work later in the day
In the Fall, you gain an hour.
In the Spring, you lose an hour. – much harder
-DST is early Sunday morning. There are more car accidents
on that Monday, according to ICBC.
SAYING to remember DST: Spring forward. Fall behind.
Do I set my clock forward or do I set my clock back?
spring forward – phrasal verb – jump ahead
The dog sprung forward toward the delivery person.
fall behind- phrasal verb – not caught up
He fell behind in his math class.
solar equinox – the day is half night and half day, sunlight
is 12 hours
summer solstice- longest hours of sunlight in a day
winter solstice- shortest hours of sunlight in a day
Especially important in northern countries.
mood effective disorder- mood changes with the seasons,
daylight
-sadness, depression, listlessness (no energy)
- special lights – therapy lights
-Vitamin D supplement
observe(v) – see, watch
observe(v)- to join a celebration, religious ceremony
Do you observe/celebrate Christmas?
He is an observant Muslim.
I am not an observant person.
participate(v) participation(n) participant(n-person) – take
part in, join
Mui always participates in class discussion.
The more you are a participant in English conversations, the
more comfortable you will become using English.
They have a standard poodle.
The restaurant has high standards for customer service.
low standards, high standards
semiannual- twice a year
semi- half
biannual – every two years
bi- two bicycle
bilingual- speak two languages
trilingual- speak two three languages
polyglot- speak many languages
multilingual – speak many languages
She made a shift in her attitude about school.
shift- certain hours-long work period
He worked a 10-hour shift yesterday.
morning shift, day shift, night shift, graveyard shift
(midnight to 6am~)
double shift – two eight-hour shifts~
She does shift work, so it is hard for her to make plans.
propose- ask something to marry you, proposal(n)
He proposed to his girlfriend. He got down on one knee. He
is a little bit old-fashioned.
It is traditional for the man to propose.
artificial crab, artificial grass, artifical light, artificial
teeth, artificial leg
offset- not a common word
She is very productive.
It was not a productive day for me.
jet lag- She was very jet-lagged after she flew from India.
sea legs – You feel comfortable walking around on a moving boat.
carsick, seasick, airsick- take Gravol
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