Thursday, 27 April 2023

EF12 Class 1 Welcome and introduction

 


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

Write down my email address: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

I also sent it to you yesterday by email.

Did you get my email?

 

Please call me by my first name: Al or Allan

 

 

Today’s class plan:

·          Welcome!

·          Protection against Covid

·          Discuss structure of course

·          Class procedures

·          Quizzes and tests

·          Student questionaire

·          Spoken work

·          Homework activity

 

 

 

*** IMPORTANT ***

***CLASS BLOG***

Everything that you see on this screen, I will put up on our class blog.

blog- webpage, on the internet

 

CLASS BLOG: haleyshec.blogspot.com

Write this down: haleyshec.blogspot.com

 

Everything I put on this screen will be posted to my class blog afterward.

I will update our class blog every day after class.

 

Write it down! You will need this URL: haleyshec.blogspot.com

 

haley – my family name

shec- South Hill Education Centre

 

haleyshec.blogspot.com

 

You can check the blog as much as you like. There is no sign in, no password. It’s all public. People from all over the world visit my blog. It’s cool.

 

 

ACTION

·          Go to the blog now. Make sure you can open it.

haleyshec.blogspot.com

·          Let me know if you are having trouble opening my blog.

·          Any trouble getting in? We’ll figure it out. Let me know.

 

If yes? Good!

If no? Let me know. I can help.                                                      

 

You can check our class blog any time you want to.

 

NAMES

I will take attendance every day.

I would like to call you by your first name if you don’t mind.

If you have a English name, just let me know, and I will try to remember.

Please call me Al or Allan

 

Al

Owl

 

alphabet- a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

z – ‘zee’ America, The US   ‘zed’ Canada and England

 

*** Covid19 protocols: wear masks, clean hands***

Feel free to wear a mask if you want to.

When do you wear a mark?

-in hospital,

-on the bus and skytrain

-shopping mall

-in supermarket

-big meeting

-party, social gathering

-school

 

problem with masks – can’t see our faces, lose a lot of non-verbal communication- facial expressions, lip reading

This is the reason that talking on the telephone is not easy.

 

Sometimes we can get a rash on our face from wearing a mark.

rash- irritated red skin

Babies get rashes from diapers.

 

 

Regularly spray your hands with the spray bottle.

Spray and wipe your desk.

 

Our skin gets dry. We have to use moisturizer.

 

Our closest door for coming in and out of the school is the south door.

 

The four directions: NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST

 

In Vancouver, the mountains are north.

The Northshore Mountains- Mount Seymour, Grouse Mountain, Cypress Mountain

Grouse Mountain has the gondola. You can go sightseeing. Also, you can skiing, snowboarding, and tubing. You can also go cross-country skiing or snowshoeing. Snowshoeing is like hiking on the snow.

Hiking is walking up a mountain.

There is a lot to do in nature in BC. Go out and enjoy nature.

 

In the wintertime, you can ski, snowboard, or snowshoe. You can also go sledding or tubing.

 

In the summertime, you can go walking or hiking.

Squamish, Northshore Mountains

 

 

**wifi***

South Hill student wifi: VSB-Visitors

Password: BackToSchool

 

 

Course dates: Thursday, April 27th, 2023 to Wednesday, June 28th, 2023. (Final day)

Monday to Friday, 12:00-2:15 pm

Our classes are two and a quarter hours long.

Our classes are 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Nine weeks of class

 

After June, we usually have a summer term if you want to study during the summer.

 

 

Holidays – Non-instructional Days

·          Victoria Day, Monday, May 22nd

celebrates Queen Victoria’s birthday

The queen of England from 1837-1901

Canada became a country in 1867.

 

 

 

*** 10-minute break***

 

 

*** Parking Passes***

 

Today and tomorrow

 

If you bring a car to school, you can get  a parking pass from me.

 

Parking machine

CODE 12003 – 3 hours

CODE 12004- 8 hours

 

 

 

 

 

Split class: EF1, EF2 and SL 1/2

When you are successful in this class:

 

English Foundations 1 --- move up to next level, EF2

English Foundations 2 --- move up to next level, EF3

Speaking and Listening 1/2

 

EF 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7/English 10, 11, 12

There is no EF8, 9

After English 12 – college, university

You can do it!

There are lots of opportunities for adults to go to college and university.

 

I have talking for almost two hours. Let’s switch to reading.

“The Kiwi”

-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

 

 

Do the exercises.

 

CONTINUE TOMORROW                    

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