Wednesday, 3 May 2023

EF12 Class 5- present tense 'be', family relationships

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s class plan:

·          Finish “Simple Present Tense of Be”

Exercises 3, 7, 15, and 25 Simple Present Tense of Be”

·          Finish “Family relationships” new vocabulary

·          Writing for homework

·          HW Read “The Dolphin” for tomorrow

Write a short paragraph (6-8 sentences) about yourself. Pass it in to me by start of class tomorrow. Finish for homework

Tomorrow, you can volunteer to read it out loud for us.

 

 

 

 

Thursday

·      Read paragraphs from homework

·      Begin “Simple Present Tense”

 

 

***Exercises 3, 7, 15, and 25 Simple Present Tense of Be”

to be: am   is   are

Ex.1

1.    You are beautiful.

REMEMBER: Begin with a capital letter. End with a period

11. We are good friends.

13. The book is funny.

I am very happy to see you.

 

Ex. 3 Add capital letters.

Use capital letters at the beginning of sentences.

Use capital letters for proper nouns: country, city, person’s name, day of the week, month of the year, name of a company, name of a language or culture, name of a school

 

1.    English Language Institute- name of the school

South Hill Education Centre

SFU, Simon Fraser University

Douglas College

2.    Three   Mexico

3.    Maria   Pablo   Mexico City

New York City   Kansas City

Vancouver

 

4.    Teresa   Acapulco

5.    Middle East

6.    Ahmed   Saudi Arabia

7.    Mohamed   United Arab Emirates (UAE)

8.    Lotfi   Egypt – the Pyramids, the Sphinx

9.    Mansour   Yemen   Fatimah   Jordan

10.                       Finally   Asia – one of the seven continents

11.                       Najmuddin   Malaysia

12.                       Pom   Thailand

 

Exercise 7

Contraction- it is   it’s   ‘ apostrophe

it is = it’s

I am = I’m

do not = don’t

you are = you’re

they are = they’re

we will = we’ll

he is = he’s

I will = I’ll

 

1.    It is really delicious.  It’s really delicious

2.    They’re

they’re   there   their

3.    It’s

4.    It’s

5.    We are = We’re

we’re   where

6.    they’re

7.    They’re

8.    They’re

9.    it’s

10.                       it’s    Spinach can taste a little bitter.

Tastes – sweet, salty, sour, bitter, spicy (hot)

hot- high temperature, spicy

 

Exercise 15

1.There are

2.There are 10 provinces and three territories in Canada.

3.There is

4.There are

5.There is

Questions

6.Is there a CD that goes with that book?

? question mark

 

7.Are there

8.Is there some ice cream in the freezer. some ice cream-singular

Are there any ice cubes in the freezer? any ice cubes- plural

 

9.are there

10.are there

11.is there   money- singular

12.is there   juice-singular

refrigerator- fridge

 

Exercise 25

1.students

2.There are five students from Saudi Arabia.

Five students are from Saudi Arabia.

3.He is a very nice man.

4.are

5.One man is from Vietnam. His English is really excellent.

6.She is a very interesting person.

7.In Korea, he is/was a taxi driver, but now he is a student.

8.

9.The students in my class are very interesting. They are very interesting. 

 

 

*** “Family Relationships” new vocabulary

 

Male Relatives

grandfather- your mother’s or your father’s father

uncle- your mother’s or your father’s brother

great-grandfather- your father’s grandfather, the grandfather’s father

great-great-grandfather - your grandfather’s grandfather

nephew- your brother or sister’s son

son-in-law- your child’s husband

father-in-law -  your wife or husband’s father

stepson- a child from another marriage

half-brother- you share only one parent

adopted son- you take a child into your family

foster son- part of your family until they become an adult

godson-

 

Female Relatives

niece- your brother or sister’s daughter

 

Either Gender

spouse- husband or wife

spouse // mouse // house

 

only child- just one child in the family

“Sarah is an only child.”

sibling- sister or brother

“I have two younger siblings.”

cousin- your aunt or uncle’s children

 

Marital Status

engaged- planning to get married

separated-  still married but not living together

“Ted and Sarah are separated.”

divorced- marriage is over, finished

“They will get divorced next year.”

 

ex-wife OR ex-husband

“I was talking to my ex-wife last week.”

ex-boyfriend   ex-girlfriend

bachelor

“Joe is bachelor. He has never been married.”

a bachelor degree- university degree

a bachelor apartment- a small apertment with no bedroom

 

Additional Vocabulary

relatives- any person related to you

immediate family- closest family

extended family-

ancestors- the people in your family from a long long time ago

decendants- the people in your family who will be born in the future

 

orphan- a child  with no parents, no mother or father

twins- two babies at the same time

triplet- three babies at the same time

maternal- mother

paternal-father

 

HOMEWORK

Write a short paragraph (6-8 sentences) about yourself. Pass it in to me by start of class tomorrow. Finish for homework

Tomorrow, you can volunteer to read it out loud for us.

 

 

 

 

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