EF67 Class 2 intro, chatting

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

This is the Period 1, P1, (9:15-11:30 am) class for these courses:

 

English Foundations 6

English Foundations 7

 

We will get started at 9:15.

If you are on the waiting list, I will talk to you during class.

 

 

Teacher: Allan Haley

Email address: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

Class blog: haleyshec.blogspot.com

 

Today’s agenda

·      Finish introduction

Parking passes

Marks

Book deposit

Email protocol, emailing tests, attachments

·      Questionaire

·      Spoken work- introductions

·      IF TIME Begin Goalsetting module

·      IF TIME Begin sentence types- simple

·      HW   Finish book deposits for tomorrow

Prepare to introduce one of your partners tomorrow (BONUS PT)

 

Wednesday

·      Classmate introductions- volunteer

·      Begin Goalsetting module

·      Begin sentence types- simple

·       

 

 

TALKING WORK:

 

Small groups of 3-4 people. Choose some people who you don’t know yet.

meeting new people – networking

social network

Opportunity to talk a little bit to other humans.

 

A.       Interview your partners.

1.                         Name

2.                         Home

3.                         Family

4.                         Job

5.                         Travel

6.                         Hobbies

7.                         Future plans

 

B.        Make notes

C.        Introduce one of your partners to the class

 

 

Introduction to the class (continued)

Marks

 

+Quizzes

Short, 15m – focussed on specific sentence types

6 sentences

~5-6 quizzes

Worth 6 pts each

 

+Tests

Longer writing, 45m- paragraph writing (at least 150 ww)

Topic- Address the topic

~5 tests

Worth 12 pts each

 

+Essays

Longest form of writing for this class, 2 hrs- essay multiparagraph form (at least 300 ww)

~1-2 essays

Worth 20 pts

 

+Spoken – in-class talking in English, demonstrate your ability and willingnness to use English in a natural (authentic) discursive (conversational) manner

~ 2 marks, 10 pts each   **Easy marks

Worth 20 pts

 

+Homework – You regularly email me the homework.

Worth 10 pts   **Easy marks

 

+Extras BONUS PTS –

Worth 5 pts

 

In the end, I do an average.

You can find out how things are going any time.

We’ll do a midterm one-on-one check-in.

 

*** The marks are not important***

What’s important is that you go from here to here.

 

 

 

 

 

*** Book Deposit ***

Book deposit $100 ($80 refundable)

At the end of the course, you return the books; then you get $80 back.

The total is actually $20.

I don’t want this to be an econmic barraier to anybody. If you’re broke, come and talk to me, and we can figure something out.

 

vsb.schoolcashonline.com

 

NOTE: Use the name and email address that you used to register for your SHEC courses.

 

I’d like to give out some books Thursday. Try to do the book deposit tonight. If there are any problems, we can solve them tomorrow.

 

I will email you the document today.

 

 

*** Email protocols***

protocol – customs, rules, regulations, politeness

Please put your name and class in the subject line of your email. Then I will know who you are.

 

If you send an attachment, please give it a name with with your name and class.

 

If you interested in doing that, feel free to try it. I will write back to you.

If you don’t know how to do this, you should learn. It’s not that hard, and it is super useful to be able to do this.

 

 

*** Questionaire***

questionaire  - a few short questions
NOT FOR MARKS

I would like to know a little bit about you and your relationship to English.

 

 

10-minute break

 

Complete questionaire