Tuesday, 8 March 2022

EF56 21 class- noun clauses, Roses Sing On New Snow

 

English Foundations 5/6

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30

 

Al Haley ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

Class blog: haleyshec.blogspot.com

 

 

Today’s agenda

·      Talk about midterm recommendations

·      Continue with noun clauses – your examples from homework

·      Continue with “Roses Sing on New Snow”

·      Begin “Literary Terms” – setting, character, plot

·      “International Women’s Day”

 

Wednesday

·      Quiz#4 noun clauses

·      Continue with “Roses Sing on New Snow”

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Thursday

·      Test #3 Paragraph about “Roses Sing on New Snow”

 

Friday

·      Review feedback

·      Midterm recommendations – one-on-one meetings

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Two-week Spring Break- March 14th-25th. We will be back on the 28th.

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We will have four more weeks in the term.

 

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Midterm recommendations

Reigstration for April term will begin after Spring Break.

I have to give you you midterm recommendation on Friday.

Midterm recommendation – halfway mark, not final mark

Suggestions of where you should register for next term

Two options:

1.    Stay in your level

2.    Move up to the next level

 

The midterm recommendaiotons will be based on your marks so far.

Quiz#1 simple               x/6

Quiz#2 compound       x/6

Quiz#3 adverb cl          x/6

Quiz#4 noun cl              x/6 (Wednesday)

 

Test#1 Rosa/Viola        x/12  e.g 4/6=8/12

Test#2 RSoNS (Thursday) x/12

 

Spoken mark – how much talking you do in class x/10

 

Add up the marks and divide.

Q1 4/6

Q2 3.5/6

Q3 4.5/6

Q4 5/6

T1 1.5/6 = 3/12

T2 3.5/6 = 7/12

 

Spoken 9/10

36/58= 62%

 

School rule: The cutoff percentage for early reigistration is 65%.

We want strong students moving on.

 

The final pass mark is 50%. The midterm cutoff for early recommendation is 65%.

 

** If you are going to miss a quiz or test, let me know before. We can arrange a makeup in the next day or so.

I can’t go back and replay history.

All you have to do is communicate, and I will be flexible.

 

Do you want to skip a grade? Go from EF5 to English 10?

Show me 90% and you got it.

 

We will do the midterm recommendations on Friday.

The meetings will be very short (3-4 minutes). We will chat about how things are going and what you want to do next. I will have a recommnedation based on your marks and with your wishes in mind.

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Some of your examples of sentences with noun clauses that you sent me for homework:

 

1.    I can't believe how I'm able to speak English after I have been studying for two years.

2.    I don't know why you are yelling at me if I'm beside you.

3.    realize that learning English can be pretty difficult.

1.    Emma believes that she will win the game again.

4.    Sarah yelled at the guy in a black jacket when he was stealing a bike. adverb clause

5.    The crowd started to whisper how the chief executive will lose his title.

6.    Whatever he is doing matters to me. noun clause

7.    I realized that I had a few mistakes .

8.    Tom know why Sara blames him .

2.    The government announced that the testing policy for Covid-19 has been canceled when you are crossing the border to Canada. noun clause adverb clause

9.    I was wondering if you have a picture for the schedule for next week?

10.                       I think that house has a good price.

11.                       The andlord said that your room is the cheapest in this building, so do not move/leave.

12.                       The music reminds me that life is beautiful.

She told me that she wants to go to Alberta.

She said that she wants to go to Alberta.

told/ said – bit different usage

The teacher told us that there will be no school next week.

The teacher said that there will be no school next week.

 

13.                       I can't believe that a bag of chips is already gone.

14.                       Romeo wonders how he is going to fix his marriage. 

15.                       Suzzen doesn't understand why she feels sick today.

she feel  she feels  subject verb agreement - #1 error

* I check every subject and every verb for agreement.

 

16.                       I really like how she take cares of elderly people. 

17.                       She forgot why she phoned her husband. 

18.                       my My sister doesn't know how she explains to my father where she was late. Meaning? RW

19.                       He guessed how he will break up his girlfriend. Meaning?

20.                       They heard why he ignored his parents. Meaning?

21.                       my My small sister wanders what his thoughts are like at the moment. Meaning?

22.                       12) we think how we would help the injured.

23.                       13) My son is wandering why he was deceived in the test.

24.                       15) we think that he hid the truth from her.

25.                       She thinks that the situation is a bit difficult to deal with.

26.                       I realized that my sister’s played football at school before coming home.

27.                       I was wondering why I can’t ride a bike. vt – ok

I was thinking about how hard math is.

 

28.                       She is wondering why her sister moved to Quebec.

29.                       She doesn’t know why she misses her country after she watches a movie.

30.                       My classmate thinks that we will have exam tomorrow.

31.                       I wonder why my neighbor has a party every weekend.

32.                       Mr. John doesn’t know why his son doesn’t like karate.

33.                       Mary realized why her husband wanted to get divorced with her.

34.                       I can’t understand why he get went broke.

lose your money – go broke, went broke

 

35.                       I don’t think that this is a good time to travel.

36.                       Tom found out from his mother that his father is coming back home tonight.

Tom found out that his father is coming back home tonight.

 I found out from you about how I can get a rebate on my phone.

 

37.                       Do you know why the restaurant manager asked the staff to return home?

38.                       It was whispered that he was fired because of his laziness.

39.                       The lawyer stated that Alice is innocent.

40.                       Maylin did not know why the governor could not cook just a simple meal.

41.                       John doesn’t know how to change the oil on his car.

 

know + infinitive “to ABC” “to go   to eat   to sleep

I don’t know how to speak French.

42.                       Paul doesn’t understand how politics works.

43.                       Maria has never mentioned how badly her father treated her.

Maris has never told us how hard her childhood was.

Joan always tells her kids how much she loves them.

He didn’t know how beautiful she really was.

I know how much she paid for her car.

I know how hard this has been for you. I went though it too a few years ago.

Janice’s mother knows how much she wants to go to the party. Janice wants to go to the party very much.

Janice very much wants to go to the party. British-style

 

 

44.                       I can tell how much you love your son.

45.                       I don’t understand why he likes to wear rainboots everyday to school.

46.                       He forgot what she asked him to buy at the grocery store.

 

Excellent sentences. First rate!

Quiz#4 tomorrow

 

Verbs

1. say

2. think

3. believe

4. know

5. realize

6. wonder

 

Vocab

1. restaurant

2. chef – person cooking in a high end, fancy $$ restaurant

cooker cook – person, no fancy restaurant

3. invite

4. taste(v)(n) – sense of style, sensitivity to beautiful things

5. spicy(adj)

6. prepare

7. imagination(n)- use your imagination

8. impatient(adj)- short tempered, short fuse

9. happily

10. finished

 

 

 

wages – hourly earnings, minimum wage in BC $15/hr

salary – annual income

cultural difference –

China, Japan, Iran -monthly earnings

Canada- annual earnings

piece work – paid by your productivity

 

arms -guns

armed(adj) -have a gun

In the US, many people go around armed.

open-carry states-

 

There was an outbreak of the flu in an old folks home in Langley.

 We can talk about “International Women’s Day” tomorrow

 

 

 

“Roses Sing on New Snow”

 

Reading a story twice

First time- armchair reading- relax, enjoy the story, give the general idea

1.setting- time, place, culture, milieu

2.characters- major, minor

3.plotline

 

Second reading- deeper, deeper meaning

1.symbols- meanings

2.repeated words

3.character – dynamic- Who is changing?

4.look for quotable words and phrases

 

The questions in a higher-level class will be deeper questions.

 

“Roses Sing on New Snow” Discussion Questions

 

1.    What is the setting of the story?

-Chinatown, probably Vancouver

-immigration of men from China “their families and wives waited in China”

-seems to link to building the Canadian railway

- very late 19th Century, very early 20th Century

 

2.    Why does Maylin cook in her father’s restaurant?

 

 

3.    Is Maylin a weak or strong person?

 

 

 

 

4.    What are some possible reasons Maylin named her dish “Roses Sing on New Snow”?

 

 

 

 

5.    What does Maylin mean when she says her dish is a product of the new world?

 

 

 

 

6.    What are some reasons the governor couldn’t cook “Roses Sing on New Snow” the same as Maylin did?

 

 

 

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