Friday, 28 April 2023

EF12 Class 2- The Kiwi

 


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.

 

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