EF 1 2 Class 37 "Work Hours"

 

English Foundations 1&2

Speaking and Listening 1/2

 

Today’s class plan:

·      Return Test#7

Optional rewrite for a bonus point

·      Story “Work Hours”

Vocab exercises

 

IF TIME

·      Begin to review sentence types

·      Continue Listening work Word List 1.6

·      Vocab exercises Exercise 23

 

 

Tuesday

·      Descriptive writing - practice desribing a picture OR a person’s face

·      Read descriptive writing aloud

·      Review sentence types

·      Begin to review verb tenses

 

Wednesday

·      Test#8- descriptive paragraph

·      Begin adverbs

·      Review sentence types

·      Review verb tenses

 

Thursday

·      Adverbs

·      Review sentence types

·      Review verb tenses

·       

 

Friday

·      Test#7 verb tenses

 

 

Our final day is Wednesday, June 28^th.

 

 

raisins – dried grapes

 

hiking/ walking poles – telescoping poles – length can be shortened (contracted) or extended

 

Test #7 –

What are your plans for the future?

 

focussing on verb tenses- simple present, simple past, simple future, present progressive

 

Optional rewrite for a bonus point

 

 

“Work Hours”

full-time-  40 hours a week, eight hours a day

part-time- less than 40 hours a week

overtime – more than 40 hours a week,

When you work overtime, you might get doubletime or time and a half.

 

doubletime- twice your normal wage  $17 an hour- $34 an hour

time and a half- 1.5 times your normal wage $17 an hour- $25.50 an hour

Minimum wage in BC as of June 1, 2023 is $16.75 an hour.

 

40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year = $33,500 per year, $2791.66 per month

 

The average cost of living in Vancouver is $4,073 per month for a single person who rents.

 

Some people have to have two or three jobs to survive in Vancouver. It is an expensive city.

 

She was born and raised in Tehran.

I was born and raised in Nova Scotia.

 

raised- grew up there

 

Your daughter was born in Vietnam but raised in Canada.

 

working too many hours- overworked(adj)

IDIOM burning the midnight oil – working late at night

 

IDIOM QT- quality time   I like to spend quality time with my kids.

 

EXPRESSION “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”

dull(adjective)- boring, colourless, not interesting

 

workaholic – someone works all the time

aholic

alcoholic

shopaholic

chocaholic

 

We have to find a good work-life balance.

Vocab B

5. The price of gas varies from week to week.

9. You don’t want to lose it. You don’t want to misplace it.

10. chores- small jobs at home e.g. washing the dishes, doing the laundry, sweeping the floor

 

every second day

 

three days ago - the day before yesterday – yesterday - today – tomorrow - the day after tomorrow - three days from now – one week from now – one year from today –

 

Today is Monday

this Friday- four days from now

next Friday- 11 days from now

two weeks from now

three weeks from now

She is going to Calgary three weeks from now.

Three days from now, I have an appointment at LINC.

I have an appointment at LINC three days from now.

 

11. employee- worker

employer- boss

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C You sweep the floor with a broom.