EF 1 2 Class 39 Describing beautiful places

 

English Foundations 1&2

Speaking and Listening 1/2

 

Registration for September courses started today. You will have to see an advisor first before you can register for September.

 

Today’s class plan:

·      “The Provincial Proficiency Scale”

·      Check descriptive paragraphs from homework

·      Read descriptive writing aloud

·      Begin adverbs

IF TIME

·      Continue Listening work Word List 1.6

·      Vocab exercises Exercise 23

·      Review sentence types

·      Review verb tenses

 

Thursday

·      Adverbs

·      Review sentence types

·      Review verb tenses

·      Test#8- descriptive paragraph

 

Friday

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Next week

·      Test verb tenses

 

Our final day is Wednesday, June 28^th.

 

“The Provincial Proficiency Scale”

New marking strucuture- starting in September in Adult Education

-already used in schools is BC – K-9

 

formative feedback- building skills- writing, speaking, listening, reading 

 

marks are expressed a %  50% 75%

new vocabulary to give feedback that is not a percentage, not a %

 

Emerging- just beginning to show understanding

Developing- growing ability, initial understanding

Proficient- able to do the work at a good level

Extending- beyond the level of the class

 

 

Teacher doing midterm reports will be using this vocabulary to give feedback. Teachers will also be using this vocabulary throughout the term.

 

I will start using this vocabulary starting now. All teachers will be using it in September.

 

 

IE – insufficient evidence- The student hasn’t done enough work for the teacher to know what their level is.

 

 

New vocabulary: IE   Emerging   Developing   Proficient   Extending

 

 

Check descriptive paragraphs from homework

Choose a nice place in your home country. Write a short paragraph descibing that place.

Read descriptive writing aloud.

 

 

*Chabahar, Beris Valley, Pink Lake, Merikhi Mountain, Iran

 

*Cenotes, Yucatan, Mexico

10,000 cenotes in the Yucatan

 

*Ba Na Hills, Viet Nam

Vietnam – Vietnamese (people) 100,000,000

 

*Cheng Du, China (Country of Heaven)

 

*Karachi, Pakistan

 

*The Persian Gulf, Iran

 

*Kabul, Afghanistan

Afghan Chopan Restaurant, Surrey

 

*Shanghai, China  24,000,000 population

 

 

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Exercise 23 Vocabulary Practice