Good morning, everyone.
To learn something new, you must be willing to change.
Sometimes a farmers organization in BC brings fruit and vegetables
to our VSB schools.
Today’s agenda:
·
Review compound sentences
·
Quiz2- compound sentences , SOBA
·
Begin Goalsetting module
·
Listening exercise
Thursday
·
Start verb tenses
·
Deeper level of compound sentences ; semicolo
·
Continue goalsetting module
Friday
·
Continue with the deeper level of compound
sentences ; semicolons
Monday
·
Quiz3- compound sentences ;
Compound sentences
SV, SOBA SV.
so or but and
It is cloudy
today, so I brought my umbrella.
It is cloudy
today, and it might rain.
Hopefully everyone has reviewed and practiced.
Quiz2- compound sentences
Pen
Doublespace
Submit to me by 12:35.
1.
accept but
2.
correct and
3.
number or
4.
smart and
5.
later so
6.
lesson so
Optional
Quiz1 rewrite
Write
a simple sentence for each.
1.
SVV discussion
2.
SV change
3.
SVV chore
4.
Interrogative busy
5.
Imperative moment
6.
SSV achieve
Goalsetting
goal- aim, reason, objective,
soemthing you want to achieve / accomplish / get
goals
- educational – high school,
college, university, training
- personal – lose weight,
learn English, driving licence, buy a house, get married, walk everyday, learn
a musical instrument, etc
- career – getting a job,
professional job
Goal
setting: goalsetting
-
set a goal
-
make a plan to achieve the goal step by step
Educational Goal
Personal Goal
Career Goal
SMART
Goals – nmemonic – memory trick, memory device
SOBA
so or but and
FANBOYS
nmemonic-
north east south west
“Never
eat sour weiners.”
Roy
G. Biv- red orange yellow green blue indigo violet – 7 colours of the rainbow
SMART
*Specific
– focused, not broad, not general
“I
want to get better at English.”- broad, not specific enough
FOCUS
IT TO ONE THING- “I want to learn how to use commas.”
FOCUS
“ I want to learn verb forms.”
*Measurable-
How can you tell if you are getting better? How can you evaluate it?
*Attainable-
Realistic, doable, possible.
*Relevant
– Engaging, important to you
*Time-bound
– deadlines, time-frame
Goalsetting work
Step 1
Small group
chatting about some various goals that you might have.
Educational
Personal
Professional
Relaxed talking.
Focus is talking
and listening- normal discursive conversation.
Make notes for
yourself on your own goals.
HOMEWORK FOR TOMORROW
Step 2
Choose one of your
goals. Write your goal in one clear sentence. Be specific.
One goal-one sentence
Ex.
Personal goal “I want to a new recipe every week for the
next year.”
TOMORROW IN CLASS
Step 3
Brainstorm and
organize the steps that you will have to take to achieve this goal.
Use key words (good
vocab, specific vocab), not sentences
thesasurus- like a
dictionary, but gives you words that have similar meaning, synonyms, antonyms
thesaurus.com
Listening exercise
Exercise
2.1
I
will describe one of the pictures. You listen and figure out which one I am
describing.
1.
rectangle
standing on its end
2.
oval
table
3.
The
small fish is chasing the big fish.
The
big fish is being chased by the small fish. PASSIVE VOICE
4.
Mr.
Skinny is holding a basket on his head with one hand.
Pic2 with both hands
Pic4
Mr. Skinny is carrying/holding a basket on his head with both hands.
5.
sleeveless
sweater with a collar
Pic1
short sleeves with lace
Pic4
blouse puffed sleeves
crewneck
t-shirt
v-neck
shirt
turtleneck
sweater
6.
Mr.
Skinny’s son is kicking/passing the ball to the Mr. Skinny.
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