English Foundations 1&2
Speaking and Listening 1/2
Today’s class plan:
·
Review verb tenses. Test tomorrow on verb tenses-
last test
Practice writing sentences with the four
verb tenses. This will help is get ready for the test tomorrow.
·
Begin adverbs of frequency/time
·
Finish “Questions”
·
Finish “Time Off”
IF TIME
·
Continue Listening work Word List 1.6
·
Review sentence types
Tuesday
·
Continue adverbs of frequency
·
Test on verb tenses
Our final day is Wednesday, June 28th.
Wednesday
·
Marks Day
·
No instruction – I won’t be doing any teaching.
I can talk with each of you about how the
term went, and what your final result is.
If you are absent on Wednesday, you can email
me between 12-2:15. I will email you your final mark.
If you want to talk about the term and your
marks, then come to class.
Review our four verb tenses from this term:
Tomorrow – test on the four verb tenses
1.
SIMPLE PRESENT- always, habit, usually, every day
2.
SIMPLE PAST- one event in the past, finished,
over
3.
SIMPLE FUTURE- one event in the future, yet to
happen
‘will’ ‘am going to’
4.
PRESENT PROGRESSIVE- happening right now,
nowadays
AUX +‘ing’
Example test- 12 sentences
Write a sentence using the verb and verb tense for each.
1.
simple present buy
She always buys coffee at JJ Bean in the
morning.
2.
simple past play
I played tennis yesterday evening at QE
Park.
3.
simple future watch
Maury will watch TV if he finishes his
homework.
Maury is going to watch his daughter perform
in a play tonight.
4.
present progressive study
Jaochim is studying at this
school.
His two sisters are studying to
be engineers.
5.
simple present do
6.
simple past see
7.
simple future get
8.
present progressive walk
9.
etc
10.
etc
11.
etc
12.
etc
Let’s choose 20 verbs to review for the test. I will use 12
of them for the test.
1.
have
2.
go
3.
get
4.
make
5.
think
6.
believe
7.
do
8.
bring
9.
take
10.
write
11.
create
12.
come
13.
speak
14.
read
15.
grab
16.
help
17.
hear
18.
put
19.
leave
20.
work
Test tomorrow – last 50m of class
ADVERB- part of speech
Other parts of speech
NOUN- person, place, thing, idea
VERB- action word
ADJECTIVE- descriptive word, describes a noun
ADVERB – describes a verb
often ends in ‘ly’
really She really
likes cats.
quickly You have to go quickly.
easily He won the race easily.
TURN ADJECTIVES INTO ADVERBS
ADJ ADV
happy happily
sad sadly
slow slowly
amazing amazingly
beautiful beautifully
“The ballerina dances beautifully.”
safe safely
“Please drive safely.”
lovely lovingly
“He talked to the baby lovingly.”
Adverbs of Frequency- how often
e.g. They always walk to school.
He never does his chores.
Frequency Adverbs
100% always
95% almost
always
80% usually,
often, frequently
50% sometimes,
occasionally
20% not
very often, seldom
10% rarely
5% almost
never
0% never
Examples:
He goes shopping.
How often does he go shopping?
He sometimes/always/never goes shopping.
My sister eats breakfast.
How often does she eat breakfast?
She usually/often/always eats breakfast.
Her brother does his homework.
How often does he do his homework?
He usually/almost always/almost never does his
homework.
Juan visits his home country.
How often does he visit his home country?
Juan seldom/rarely/often/NEW WORD regularly visits
his home country.
Juan sometimes visits his home country.
HIGHER LEVEL: We can put adverbs in different places in a
sentence.
Juan sometimes visits his home country. EASIEST WAY
Juan visits his home country sometimes.
Sometimes Juan visits his home country.
HIGHER LEVEL VOCAB – sporadically (sometimes), frequently (often)
SPANISH – change ‘mente’ to ‘ly’ probably will work
You can put adverbs in different places in the sentence.
I go to the gym. sometimes
I sometimes go to the gym.
Sometimes, I go to the gym.
I go to the gym sometimes.
She often goes shopping downtown.
She goes shopping downtown often.
Often, she goes shopping downtown.
rarely- 10%
Don rarely calls his brother.
Don calls his brother very rarely.
Rarely, Don calls his brother.
I rarely never get home to Iran.
I often get home to see my family in China.
You very seldom get home.
I very very rarely visit Cape Breton Island.
I often miss it often.
miss it – feel homesick
She often feels homesick. She wants to go visit her country,
Cambodia.
We like would to get home to Iran. However, we never do
because we are always are fighting in conflict with the government.
We always take our break at this time.
C. Vocabulary Review
1. exciting – unexciting
2. employer-boss
employee-worker
3. schedule
benefits-health insurance, vacation, pension
8. vary(verb) various(adjective)
Let’s practice writing sentences using the four verb tenses:
1.
have
2.
go
3.
get
4.
make
5.
think
6.
believe
7.
do
8.
bring
9.
take
10.
write
11.
create
12.
come
13.
speak
14.
read
15.
grab
16.
help
17.
hear
18.
put
19.
leave
20.
work
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