Good morning, everyone.
This is the Period 2 (12:00-2:15 am) class
for these courses:
English Foundations 1
English Foundations 2
Speaking and Listening 1/2
We will get started at 12:00.
Teacher: Allan Haley
Email address: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca
Today’s class plan:
·
Finish course introduction
·
Finish “The Kiwi”
·
HW Student questionaire
Monday
·
Collect student questionaires
·
Spoken work
I am going to the gym.
I have to work on the weekend.
I will go to church on Sunday.
I will ask a worker maintainence person
to check my air conditioner in my house.
maintainence- repair, fix, take care of
something before it breaks
I maintain my car by changing the oil every
four to six months.
I will stay home home and listen to music. Usually
I walk in the park and visit my friends.
I will go to work. I am directing a play /
theatre production.
director- a person who directs actors
Friday is Butter day!
Butter is my dog.
He is a boy.
Butter is almost eight years old.
Butter is a Golden Doodle. (Groodle) ½ poodle ½ golden retriever
Feel free to pat him or say hello.
He loves people.
He loves swimming, running, and playing fetch.
fetch- dog game, throw a ball, bring the
ball back
toy dog- purse dogs- bred to be very small,
tiny
-Read it by
yourself.
-We will read it
out loud.
Each person read
one sentence
New Zealand is close
to Australia. It is southeast of Austrialia.
An apple is about
the same size as an orange. They are similar in size.
A chicken is a
little bit bigger than a kiwi.
pony tail –
hairstyle
hair bun
beak- a bird’s
nose and mouth
Kiwis live the
forest.
Canada has
forests. Vietnam has jungles.
a nocturnal
animal – an animal that sleeps during the day and is awake at night, for
example an owl, a bat, a coyote, a wolf, a mouse
very few, hard
to find, not common- rare, endangered animal
endangered animal
- in danger, opposite of ‘safe’- might become extinct
extinct- no more
of that animal left
endangered
animal- leopard, panda, whale, elephants,
Elephants have
trunks.
Wolves are endangered
in some areas.
extinct animal-
Persian jaguar
Animals on Canadian
coins
1, one cent coin
- penny
5c, five cent
coin, nickel- beaver
10c, ten cent
coin, dime
25c, twenty cent
coin, quarter- moose
$1, one dollar
coin, loonie- loon (related to a duck)
Beavers are very
important animals in Canadian history.
Slang word for
New Zealander- ‘kiwis’
Slang word for
Canadians- ‘Canucks’ Vancouver hockey team
Slang word for
Americans- ‘Yanks’
Do the
exercises.
Vocab A- same
sentences in the story, easier
1.
during hurts
2.
strange fly
3.
government kill
sees says
4.
smell
5.
wings tail
6.
only
7.
feathers
8.
beak
bake beak
9.
size
Vocab B- new
sentences using the vocab, harder
1.
kill
2.
feathers
small feathers for pillows- down (noun) She bought a down pillow
3.
government
scholarship (noun)- money that someone gives you for school, college,
university
4.
fly wings
5.
smells It smells good. It smells bad.
6.
hurts
7.
tail
8.
beak
mouth mouse
9.
strange
10.only
11.size Size 5,6,7 35, 36, 37
3 Class
·
Email protocol, emailing tests,
attachments
·
Finish personal introductions
·
Student questionaire
·
Spoken
“Getting Acquainted”
·
Introduce classmate
3 Class
·
Begin grammar- “Simple Present
Tense”
EMAILING ME:
· In the
Subject line of your email, please put your name, class.
For example: Joe Chen, EF6
If you do not put this information in the
Subject line of your email, I will not know who you are or what class you are
in.
QUZZES AND TESTS- PAPER FORMAT
*Please use lined 8 1/2 X 11 inch lined paper.
Dollar store
*Please orient your paper rightside up.
*Put your name, class and date in the top
righthand corner above the line.
*Title line -Name of test, quiz
*Write in black or blue pen. No pencil,
please.
*Write between the margins. margins- red
lines
*Please double space.
Feel free to write on both sides of the
paper.
It’s easy to forget these details when you
are focussed on writing. I will remind you.
Student questionaire-
basic questions about you
Pass it in on Monday at the beginning of
class.
