English Foundations 4/5
This is the fourth week of class already. Time flies!
Today’s agenda
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Continue review of verb tenses- simple present
“Simple Present Tense and Frequency Adverbs”
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Continue review of verb tenses- simple past
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Goalsetting- setting goals and making concrete
plans for yourself for the next six weeks.
Talk about my goal for music
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Go over modal auxiliaries – from last week
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Listening questions exercise
Wednesday
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Continue review of verb tenses- simple past
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Continue review of verb tenses- simple future
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“National Day of Truth and Reconciliation”
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Begin complex sentences- adverb clauses
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Hooks/grabbers- from homework, read aloud
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Thursday
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First Nations lecture
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Continue review of verb tenses-
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Continue complex sentences- adverb clauses
Friday
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Test#2- paragraph on basic topic
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Continue review of verb tenses-
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Continue complex sentences- adverb clauses
Quiz Tuesday or Wednesday
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Continue First Nations lecture
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Listening- song lyrics
Monday- No school
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Tuesday or Wednesday
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Quiz#3- adverb clauses
Review of verb tenses:
7 of 12
-simple present
-simple past
-simple future
-present progressive
-past progressive
-present perfect
-present perfect progressive
You have to be able to use these verb tenses in higher-level
classes.
Simple present - habitual action, every day activities
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states of being
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truths and facts
“Simple Present Tense and Frequency Adverbs”
adverbs that show frequency- how often
always
usually
often
sometimes
seldom
rarely
never
A.1. never drink coffee
2. She always helps. We always help.
3. Her husband never does the laundry. I never do the
laundry.
4. usually take
5. seldom eat
I rarely post anything on social media.
6. rarely travel
7. usually shops
8. sometimes play
9. often rains
10. seldom listen to
B.1. I always get up at 6 o’clock in the morning.
I always drink tea.
I always wake up early in the morning.
2. I usually play with my son.
I usually have breakfast at 8 o’clock.
I usually go to sleep/bed at 11 o'clock.
3. I am often on time.
I often visit the park with my friends on weekends.
I often buy some fruit. fruit-uncountable
some water
some milk
some air
some money
4. I sometimes go to a library in the afternoon.
I sometimes read a book on the weekend.
I sometimes use my credit card.
5. I seldom watch scary movies. I seldom watch a scary movie.
I seldom wear denim.
I am seldom late for my appointments.
I seldom go out with my friends to the nightclub.
6. I rarely use an elevator. I rarely use elevators.
I rarely travel to another countries. #
other- many
another- one
I rarely travel to another country.
I rarely travel to other countries.
I rarely drink.
7. I never blame other people.
I never use transit systems. I never use the transit system.
I never went to Africa. simple past tense
I never miss/skip my morning coffee.
I never go hunting.
I never ride horses.
I never like to go hunting.
Pronunciation of ‘the’
thee thu
thu the
consonant the cat
the dog the table
thee the vowel sound ‘a e i o u’ the orange
the apple the afternoon the idea
*SIMPLE PAST – one event in the
past, finished
-one minute ago, yesterday, five
years ago, a million years ago
Sarah watched the World Cup
yesterday morning.
My daughter just texted me.
‘just’- close to now, very recent
My daughter texted me last week.
My daughter texted me ten seconds
ago.
regular verbs past tense
‘ed’
talk- talked
walk- walked
try- tried tryed
carry- carried
learn-learned
wash-washed
dry-dried
stop- stopped
travel- travelled
learn- learned/learnt(less common)
irregular verbs – past tense not
‘ed’
“Irregular Verb List”
begin – began beginned
break – broke breaked
wake -woke
eat-ate little kids- I eated the cookie. I drinked
the milk. I runned in the park.
spend- spent
speak-spoke
swing- swung
go-went
-see/saw
I see my son every day. I saw your
sister in the mall yesterday.
-forget/forgot
I always forget to lock my door.
I forgot your birthday. I forgot
to set my alarm.
-do/did
I always do my homework.
He did his homework yesterday.
-teach/taught ‘tot’
I taught Butter how to sit.
-catch/caught ‘cot’
He caught a cold. I caught Covid
last year.
She took/caught a bus to school.
-wake/woke
He wakes up at 6 usually. Today he
woke up at 9.
-cut/cut – same pronunciation
I cut my apples before I eat them.
I cut my finger yesterday.
-put/put – same pronunciation
-hit/hit – same pronunciation
-let/let– same pronunciation
-shut/shut- – same pronunciation
-cost/cost-– same pronunciation
-read/read- different pronunciation
She reads cooking magazines.
She read a good book about Prince
Harry.
IMPORTANT This is a lot to remember. One of the reasons
people forget them is that they are not using very much English in their daily
life. You can’t just study them. You have to use talking with people.
HW
Do Exercise 8. We will go over it tomorrow.
Exercise 8
1.They go went/fly flew to Paris in a jumbo jet last
week.
2.I set the alarm clock for 7:00 yesterday, but I got up an hour
before the alarm clock rang/ went off.
The fire alarm went off.
My car alarm went off.
Simple Past tense stories
“A Centenarian Became a Celebrity”
cent (prefix) 100 -
century, centimetre, percent 80%
centenarian- a person who is 100 years old, a 100-year-old
person
octo-eight- octopus, octogon- like a stop sign, an eight-sided
shape
octogenarian- a person who is 80 years old, a 80-year-old
person
septegenarian- a person who is 70 years old, a 70-year-old
person
sexagenarian - a person who is 60 years old, a 50-year-old
person
Goalsetting- setting goals and making concrete plans for yourself
for the next six weeks
Set realistic and achievable goals – work on them daily
Guitar playing- Goal #1 learning to play single notes lines
between chords
Goal#2 play these single note lines at gigs/concerts – late November
Building vocabulary- ESL Word a Day emails
-https://www.esolcourses.com/vocabulary/word-of-the-day.html
-https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/word-of-the-day.php
1.
How many legs does a dog have?
2.
Does the sun come out in the day or at night?
3.
Is a wheel round or square?
4.
What is the word for the yellow part of an
egg? yolk
5.
Counting by tens, what number comes next: 10,
20, 30, ...?
Counting by fives... Counting by twos...
6.
Sick people stay here. Doctors and nurses work
here. What place is it?
7.
If a unicorn lost its horn, what animal would
it look like?
8.
Uncle Ed repaired four pairs of boots. How many
boots did he fix in all?
9.
Is Vancouver next to the Atlantic Ocean or
Pacific Ocean?
10.
It’s 2 o’clock. What time will it be in one
hour?
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