Good evening, everyone.
This is the Period 4 (7:00-9:30) class for these courses:
-English Foundations 1
-English Foundations 2
-Speaking and Listening 1/2
We will get started at 7:00.
Teacher: Allan Haley
Email address: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca
Today’s class plan:
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Do “Present Tense of Be” exercises
·
Articles
·
Spoken work
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Homework activity- Student questionaire
How are you today?
What did you do today?
I was working. I worked.
I was stay stayed at home. simple past verb
I was go went to work.
I was staying at home.
I planted a garden.
I was driving / drove to Abbotsford. drived drove
I used a translator.
I was working.
I was cooking Ukranian borscht.
I was taking care of my children. I took care of my
children.
I take took / was taking classes in the morning.
was is are were taking
She was/is walking to school.
My son is playing volleyball.
We are studying English.
I was working at West 4th Avenue.
I was working in the restaurant kitchen.
How do feel today?
I feel wonderful / good / tired / amazing / happy / stressed
out / unhopeful / hopeful / fantastic / great / relaxed / cranky.
Simple Present Tense of Be
Exercise 3
capital letters A B C D
small letters a b c d
Some nouns must begin with a capital letter:
1.
Days of the week Monday Thursday Friday
2.
Months of the year September November April July February
December
3.
Names of countries Mexico Iran China Vietnam Ukraine
Afghanistan
4.
Names of cities
Vancouver Kyiv Veracruz Kartum Tabriz Cali Ho Chi Mihn City Panjshir
5.
Names of people
Sara Brian Maryam Tom Cruise
6.
Names of companies Microsoft Apple Samsung Twitter X
7.
Name of rivers, seas and oceans Fraser River Pacific Ocean Red Sea
Gulf of Mexico Persian Gulf
8.
I
9.
Beginning of a sentence, after a period. (fullstop)
10.
Name of cars Hyundai Sante Fe Tesla
Mercedes Ferarri Lambroughini Aston Martin
11.
Name of a language English Spanish Farsi Mandarin Urdu Swedish
Italian French German Dutch Turkish Arabic Swahili Tamil
12.
Name of a school South Hill Education Centre The University of British Columbia UBC Langara
Douglas David Thompson VCC
Exercise
2. Three Mexico
3. Maria Pablo Mexico City
4. Teresa Acapulco
5. Five Middle East
6. Ahmed Saudi Arabia
7. Mohamed United Arab Emirates (UAE)
8. Lofti Egypt – The Pyramids, The Sphinx
9.Mansour Yemen Fatimah Jordan
10.Asia – name of a continent
We are on the continent of North America.
She is from South America.
She is from Europe.
11.Najmuddin Malaysia
12.Pom Thailand
I come from Nova Scotia, Canada. Nova Scotia is a province
in the east of Canada.
Back and Forth Word List 1.1
1.
cent sends sense
He sends his kids to school.
My dog has a good sense of smell.
2.The bus is safer than the car.
safe (adjective) safer
cold colder
warm warmer
young younger
tall taller
small smaller
good better
smart smarter
Sara is smart. Julia is more smarter than Sara at
math.
big bigger
cute cuter
strong stronger
short shorter
3.
She drinks tea every morning.
The cat climbed up a tree.
4.I lost my hat.
cap ballcap
Careful! That’s very hot!
5.
I put my pencil on the desk.
I place my pencil on the desk carefully.
I push the shopping cart around Superstore.
6.
What’s the matter? What’s the problem?
7.
Make sure you chew your food before you swallow.
8.
He
ate some cookies after supper / dinner.
breakfast brunch
lunch dinner/supper snack
9.
Julia is good at math. mathematics
4+5=
mat
His shirt matches his pants.
10.
The lion roars at night.
11.
The cops came to arrest me.
12.
She knocked on the door.
I knocked my water bottle over.
13.
Sheep meat is called mutton.
Goat stew is delicious. It tastes good. It
is tasty.
The new iphone is not cheap. It is so
very expensive.
14.I met my new teacher yesterday.
Vegetarians do not eat meat.
Vegans do not eat any animal products.
15.She can fix her computer.
She loves figs.
16. Could you help me? Could I borrow a pencil?
May I go to the washroom?
Can I pay cash?
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