Wednesday, 5 April 2023

EF34 Class 31 - adjective forms, Ramadan

 

EF3/4

 

Today’s agenda-

·      Return Test#4

vocab- adjective forms

RW for a bonus point

·      Article to read “Ramadan”

·      Continue review of verb tenses

 

Thursday

·      “The Kiwi” Facts and Figures

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Friday

Good Friday

NO SCHOOL

 

Monday

Easter Monday

NO SCHOOL

 

Tuesday

·      Begin descriptive writing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Test#4

Choose one topic.

Write a 80-120 word narrative paragraph.

 

Your Favourite Vacation

Your Most Exciting Day at School/Work

 

*Focus on good sentences and verbs.

 

Paragraph structure

-double space

-INDENT

 

Topic sentence

Supporting sentences

Conclusing sentence

 

 

Adjective forms

-excited- your feeling

“She was very excited about the new movie.” her feeling, emotion

-exciting- describing something outside yourself

“The movie was very exciting.” describing the movie

 

-interested- your feeling, emotion

“Dak is interested in computer science.”  his emotion, feeling

-interesting- describing something

“Computers are interesting to him.” describing computers

 

-bored

-boring

 

-fascinated

-fascinating

 

-tired

-tiring

 

Let’s do some corrections and rewrite for a bonus point.

 

 

DIFFERENCE

seven years old

seven-year-old

 

When I was seven years old, I went to school for the first time.

When I was a seven-year-old kid, I went to school for the first time.

When I was a ADJ kid, I went to school for the first time.

When I was a little kid, I went to school for the first time.

When I was a seven-year-old kid, I went to school for the first time.

 

This class is nine weeks long.

This class is a nine-week-long class.

 

nine weeks long  join the words with hyphen -

nine-week-long 

 

ten years old

ten-year-old

 

I live in a house that is 80 years old.

I live in an 80-year-old house.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Ramadan”

1.    fast(v) – blood test “Fast for 12 hours before getting a blood test.”

You have to fast before getting surgery.

breakfast- first meal of the day, after sleeping,

You break your fast.

2.    prophet (noun, person)- a person who gets messages from God

3.    faith(noun) – belief, religion, trust in a person or institution

I have faith in you. I know that you will keep your promise.

She is a faithful person. Butter is very faithful dog.

4.    self-sacrifice- giving up something that you like to help somebody else

The soldiers sacrificed their lives for their country.

Parents sacrifice money and time for their children.

5.    lunar(adjective) – about the moon

China is on a lunar calendar.

We follow the lunar phases of the moon.

When the moon is getting smaller, it is waining.

When the moon is getting larger, it is waxing.

6.    solar(adj)- about the sun

The solar system is the collection of the sun and all of the planets and moons.

sun- Mercury- Venus- Earth-Mars-Jupiter-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune- Pluto

solar panels-

We can generate clean energy from solar panels.

solarium- solar- sun   arium-room   A glass room for growing plants.

 

7.    entire(adj)- while, all of something  I ate the entire bag of chips.

8.    provide(v)- to give

The food bank provides dry foods and canned food for people who are struggling.

My wife always donated a few things to the food bank when she goes to Superstore.

9.    energy – power, strength(n)

MISPRONUNCIATION-  strens,   strenf

strong(adj)

10.                       mosque- ‘mosk’- religious building for Muslims

church- religious building for Christians

temple- religious building for Sikhs

shrine- religious building for Buddhists and Shinto (Japan)

You can burn incense in a temple.

 

11.                       Quran – holy book for Muslim people

Bible- holy book for Christian people

12.                       commemorate- to remember, to honour the memory of somebody

commemorate – memory, remember, memorize

 

There is a commemorative statue to Terry Fox at BC Place.

 

When I visited Toronto, I bought some souvenirs for my family.

souvenirs- little tourist gifts

 

-hundred 100

-thousand 1000

-no special word for ten thousand

-one million 1 000 000

-billion 000 000 000

1.5 billion 1 500 000 000

- one trillion 1 000 000 000 000

 

14 billion

population of Chine 1.4 billion

 

population of Canada 38 000 000

 

20 000

200 000

21 578

2590

2500 – two thousand five hundred, twenty five hundred

 

 

even number- divisible by 2-  2,4,6,8,10

odd number- not divisible by 2- 1,3,5,7,9

 

sunrise- the sun comes up, dawn

sunset- the sun goes down, dusk

Dawn is around 6:40am this week. Dusk is just before 8pm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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