Wednesday, 17 November 2021

EF56 Third class- Email attachments, Daylight Savings Time

 

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.

Al ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

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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