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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