English Foundations 4/5
This is the fourth week of class already. Time flies!
Wednesday is Hump Day!
The schedule for November is out. Q2 Quarter 2- Nov-Jan
Registration for Q2 will begin in a few weeks.
In the next few weeks, we will continue to do quiizes and tests.
Also, you will get a spoken mark for the first half of the course. Add to that
some HW and Bonus points. This is where
your mark will come from.
In a few weeks, we will have one-on-one meetings about what
you should do next quarter.
If you are curious about how you are doing right now, I
would be happy to show you your mark any time.
Q1
Q2
T1
HW
Bonus
I do not know what I will be teaching in Q2 (November-January).
As soon as I know, I will tell you.
Today’s agenda
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Continue review of verb tenses- simple past
Go over homework
·
Start “National Day of Truth and Reconciliation”
·
Begin complex sentences- adverb clauses
IF TIME Go over
modal auxiliaries – from last week
Hooks/grabbers-
from homework, read aloud
Thursday
·
First Nations lecture
·
Continue review of verb tenses- simple future
·
Continue complex sentences- adverb clauses
Friday
·
Test#2- paragraph on basic topic
·
Continue review of verb tenses-
·
Continue complex sentences- adverb clauses
Quiz Tuesday or Wednesday
·
Continue First Nations lecture
·
Listening- song lyrics
Monday- No school
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Tuesday or Wednesday
·
Quiz#3- adverb clauses
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.
3. I sent an email.
Dora sent an email attachment. She
attached a photo to her email.
Be careful. Don’t open attachments
from people you don’t know. it might be a virus.
He mailed a letter.
She couriered a package to the
school.
courier(v,n)- special delivery,
UPS, FedEx, with tracking
4. wrote
5. His mother takes took care
of him when he get got/was/felt sick.
6. taught gave
7. lost felt/was
He felt upset. He was upset. She is happy. She feels happy.
8. Angie caught/got/had a cold
last week. She lay(UNUSUAL)/stayed in bed for three days.
lie lay
lay laid
9. swimmed swam When Mei
was a kid, she always swam in the lake close to her house.
10. We had a wonderful time. We
had a good time.
11. bought paid
12. met drank/had/shared We chatted and gossiped. We chewed the fat. We
made smalltalk.
IDIOM chew the fat- chat and gossip
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
celebrity- a famous person,
well-known person, a star
UK- pounds
US/Canada- dollars
Europe- Euro
Iran- rial
China- yuan
Japan- yen
Vietnam- dong
India-rupee
Ukraine- gryvnia
Mexico- peso
Syria- lira
Uganda- shelling (sounds likes ‘shilling’
English)
UK garden – Canada backyard
veteran- old soldier, used to be a soldier
thirty million pounds
$10 ten dollars
knight- honour bestowed by a queen or king
RIP – rest in peace
Tom was 100 years old.
Tom was a 100-year-old man.
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hyphen
Terry Fox raised money for cancer research.
This class is nine weeks long.
This is a nine-week class.
livestream(v)- put a concert on the radio or on the internet
live
Livestream of an opera from around the world- New York, La Scala,
Italy
LINK
TO SATURDAY OPERA: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-285-saturday-afternoon-at-the-opera
“National Day for Truth and Reconciliation”
Orange Shirt Day- this Friday in school
Canada is a mosaic. It is multicultural.
The US is a melting pot.
1.
reconciliation(n) reconcile(v)
Mei had a big argument with her sister, but
later they reconciled.
2.
commemorate(v) memory remember-
co- together coworker cooperation
commemoration(n)
memorial(n)
3.
Indigenous- aboriginal, original, origin
4.
fund(n,v) We started a coffee fund at work. We
also started a Sunshine Fund.
5.
assimilate(v) – similar(adj)- You fit in to your
new environment.
6.
dominant(adj)
Everyone has a dominant hand. My wife wears the pants. He is the head of
the family. She is the neck.
IDIOM
wears the pants- the boss
7.
abusive(adj) abuse(n,v)- The staff will not tolerate abusive language.
8.
possession(n) possess(v) possessive(adj) The
little boy is very possessive of his toys.
9.
trauma(n) –
10.
awareness(n) aware(v) Are you aware of the new
rules in baseball? Monday is a holiday. I wasn’t aware of that. I didn’t realize/know.
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