Tuesday, 7 February 2023

EF34 Class 2 personal introductions

 

Good morning, everyone.

This is the Period 2, P2, (12:00-2:15) class for these courses:

English Foundations 3

English Foundations 4

Composition and Writing 3/4

 

We will get started at 12:00.

 

Today’s agenda

·      Parking passes

·      Communication - email

·      Spoken- icebreaker

·      Survey- about your real-life English usage

 

 

*** Email protocols***

protocol – customs, rules, regulations, politeness

 

Please always put your full name and class in the subject line of your email. That way, I will know who you are.

 

If you are not sure what to do, ask a young person. I can help, too.

 

If you want to try this, feel free. I will write back to you. You may have already done this with my welcoming email last week.

 

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.

 

REMEMBER: Always put your name and class in the subject line of your emails.

 

 

I***

Talking with people

 

Important challenges for newcomers to new country

-immigrate on their own, small family

-friends, extended family back home

-hard to have a good happy if you don’t have a network

 

-network- friends, coworkers, colleagues

-feel isolated, lonely, depressed

-not enought social support

-miss your home country, homesick

 

Learn more English!

-feel part of the community

-meeting new people –

-talking with new people

-networking- loose connections between people

-social network-

-getting comfortable talking

-listening to new accents

 

ICEBREAKER:

 

Get into groups of 4-5 people. Choose some people who you don’t know yet. Ideally choose people who do not speak your mother language.

A.       Chat with your partners.

1.       Name

2.       Home

3.       Family

4.       Job

5.       Travel

6.       Hobbies

7.       Future plans

 

B.       Make notes

C.       You will introduce one of your partners to the class. Choose one person. Make sure that you have information about them.

 

 

NOTES FROM INTRODUCTIONS

He is from Vietnam.

He comes from Vietnam.

He is originally from Vietnam.

His home/mother country is Vietnam.

His hometown is HoChiMin City.

 

Her hobbies are cooking and swimming.

She enjoys cooking and swimming in her freetime.

Her pastimes are cooking and gardening.

hobby=pastime

 

She lives in Vancouver.

She lives in Sunset. She lives in Renfrew. - neighborhood

neighbor- the person who lives next to you

neighborhood- the area that you live in

She lives on 16th Avenue. She lives on Granville Street.

She lives on Victoria Drive.

She lives at 1234 Victoria Drive.

 

She has lived in Canada for five years.

She has lived in Canada since 2017.

 

 

 

has lived- present perfect

He has lived here for one month.

He has lived here since January.

He came to Canada one month ago.

He immigrated to Canada five years ago.

He moved to Vancouver in September, 2019.

 

I came to Vancouver five years before. XXX

I came to Vancouver five years ago.

 

She likes gardening.

She likes to garden.

He likes to hike.

He likes hiking.

I like playing golf/piano/mahjong/guitar.

 

He has been to London.

He has visited London.

He visited London.

He traveled to London.

 

present perfect verb tense- from the past until now

I will teach this maybe next week.

 

He works as an IT person.  IT- informational technology

His job is a truck driver.

He works as a salesperson.

He is a doctor. MORE COMMON

He works as a doctor.

She is a business owner. She is a businessperson. She is an entrepreneur.

We were entrepreneurs in Iran. We would like to open our own business in Vancouver.

 

She wants to open a restaurant.

She wants to open a Pakistani restaurant.

He wants to open a Mexican/Indian/Italian/Spanish/Iranian/

Chinese/Vietnamese restaurant.

 

Vietnamese banh mi-  Banh Mi Saigon, 5397 Victoria Drive

Go early! They sell out quickly.

 

She has three children.

He has one child.

She has three kids.

kid- baby goat

She has two daughters.

She has three children: one boy and two girls.

 

She is going to go back to Pakistan in June.

simples future verb tense-   will    is going to

is going to – already make a plan

will – decide right now

 

 

He lives in East Vancouver.

He is living in East Vancouver

 

I will start to teach verb tenses this week.

 

She immigrated to Canada since last year.

 

She cooks bakes cakes.

She bakes cookies, pies, cakes, muffins, and bread.

 

You bake pastries.  croissants – shaped like a crescent

 

She is a patiserie chef.

 

chef- cooks fancy food, studied to be a chef

cook- cooks everyday food

 

His daughter is an eye doctor.

She is an optometrist.

 

IDIOM apple of my eye- very special relationship, love very much

His daughter is the apple of his eye.

My son is very close to his mother.

 

 

 

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