Good morning, everyone.
This is the Period 2 (11:45-2:30 am)
class for these courses:
English Foundations 1
English Foundations 2
Speaking and Listening 1/2
Teacher: Allan Haley
Email address: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca
2 class
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“Getting Acquainted” Kenji Saito
·
Go over parts of speech
“Review 8 Parts of Speech”
3 class
·
Begin simple sentences
·
Write simple sentences from chatting yesterday,
practice writing
·
“Getting Acquainted” Maria Pedrido
·
Verb tenses- simple
Kenji Saito
Read aloud. Read
along. Listen and remember the details in the story.
new vocab:
Turn the paper
over.
Ask some questions.
January February
March April May June July August September October November December
September
twenty fourth 24th
January 15th
August 28th
June 17th
March 6th
July 11th
March 21st
twenty first
October 7th
seventh
September 26th 25th
June 22nd
twenty second
April 6th sixth
April 16th
sixteenth
August 25th
twenty fifth
September 19th
1 first
2 second
3 third
4 fourth
5 fifth
6 sixth
7 seventh
8 eighth
9 ninth
10 tenth
decided to –
make a decision
decided to VERB-
casual event, not important
Mei decided
to go swimming yesterday.
make a decision
to VERB – important event
Jun made a decision
to immigrate to Canada.
Joe decided to
go to the gym after school.
My husband
decided to cook chicken at 4 am.
SMALL DECISION decided
to
BIG DECISION make
a decision
I decided
made a decision to change my schedule at work.
I decided to have
bread and butter and tea last night.
SMALL THING I
decided to change my apartment.
BIG THING I made
a decicion to change my apartment.
SMALL I decided
to cook make soup for dinner.
BIG I made a decision
to buy a house.
BIG I made a decision
to buy a car next month.
BIG We made a
decision to have six more kids.
free time,
spare time = hobbies
break time-
work, school
gain weight,
put on weight
lose weight,
take off weight
Mei lost weight
over the summer. She lost 2 kg.
Jun put on 5
kgs when she was stressed out.
IDIOM stressed
out- feeling a lot of stress and worry
Joe is stressed
out about his job.
You are sometimes
stressed out about talking in English.
You are very
stressed out about talking with your kids in English.
** 10-minute break **
Parts of Speech- different kinds of words in English (or any language)
1.
Nouns- person, place, thing,
idea(abstract, not physical)
person- scientist, barber, hairstylist, princess, composer, adult,
mother, boy, girl, doctor, husband, server, warehouse worker
place- Vancouver, China, Iran, home, school, hospital, Kabul Afghanistan,
India, America , the US, the States,
proper nouns, capitalized- Vancouver, Phu Quoc, China, Iran,
Joanne, Fakir, Ahmed, South Hill Education Centre, Langara College, Univerity
of British Columbia, SFU, Starbucks, McDonald’s, Tim Horton’s, Cactus Club,
Five Guys, Yaas, Friday, Monday, Wednesday, July, August, September, QE Park, Stanley
Park, Central Park,Toyota, Hyundai, Mazerati, two Teslas, Sony, iPhone
thing- pen, computer, glasses, car, desk, food, paper, finger,
dog, coyote
idea(abstract thought, idea, not physical)- happiness,
imagination, mathematics, plans, education, freedom, peace
compound nouns- two words together
school book
grocery store
shoestore
volleyball
cupcake
birthday
ice cream
leftover
landlord
breakfast – break-stop, fast-no eating
She has to fast for one day because she is having an operation.
lipstick
apple pie
2.
verbs -action words
VERB TENSES- Can be big trouble!
simple verb tenses- past present
future
past liked Laura liked soccer.
present like(s) Laura likes soccer.
future will like Laura will like soccer.
STRANGE
to go
past We went for a walk last night.
present He walks to school every day.
future I will walk home after work.
We will start working on verb tenses tomorrow.
3.
adjective- descriptive word
Opinion Size Age Shape Colour Origin Material
Purpose
-opinion – beautiful, ugly, handsome,
expensive, cheap
-size- huge, tiny, medium, large,
short, gigantic, miniscule
-age- young, ancient, two-year-old,
senior, brand new
She has a two-year-old
daughter. like an adjective
-shape- round, square, triangular,
rectangular, six-sided, eight-sided
A stop sign is eight-sided.
A stop sign is octagonal.
five-sided
ten-sided
oval, egg-shaped
circular
She bought a circular/round table.
-
colour- green, white, black, blue, sky
blue, dark blue, light blue
-
origin- where something is from-
Persian food, Chinese tea, Vietnamese sandwich (banh mi), Japanese sushi,
Korean kimchi, Colombian arepa
-material- cotton, leather, wood, steel,
silk, wool, plastic, aluminum, copper, gold, iron, silver
**NOTE**
In English, adjectives come before
nouns.
a blue sky
Spanish – a sky blue
Farsi, Arabic- a sky blue
4.
adverbs – modify verbs
‘ly’ quickly, slowly, happily,
healthily
She tries to eat as healthily as
possible.
The little boy walks quickly.
suddenly, absolutely
usually You usually get to work
early.
goodly
well He speaks German very well. He
speaks German very poorly.
I did poorly on my driving test.
fortunately, unfortunately,
amazingly, surprisingly, incredibly, fantastically, seriously, definitely,
sincerely, exactly
Sincerely,
NAME
5.
Pronouns – These days, some people
choose their pronouns.
Inclusive language
I, you, he, she, we, they, it
They love cats.
possessive pronouns – my, your, his,
her, our, their, its
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