EF1 2 Class 12

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

We will get started at 9:15.

 

Today’s class plan:

·      Finish “Simple Present Tense”

·      Continue “Simple sentences EF1, EF2”

·      Word List 1.3

Write simple sentences using these words.

 

Thursday

·      Read aloud some sentences that you wrote in class yesterday.

·      Begin “Past Tense of Be”

 

Friday

·      Continue simple past tense

·      Test#2 paragraph

 

 

The weather is cold.

The temperature was -1 this morning.

The weather is chilly/ frosty.

frost(noun) – the white thin ice on a car or the grass

I had to scrape my car windshield this morning.

The sidewalks were a little bit icy. They were slippery.

icy(adjective) – covered with ice

 

What clothes should you were when it is cold.

gloves

gloves – five fingers

mittens- fingers together

hat

toque- ‘tuke’

cap- baseball hat, with a brim

sweater- jumper(UK)  She is wearing a jumper. He is wearing a sweater.

jacket

scarf- She is wearing a scarf around her neck.

He is wearing a puffy vest/jacket.

You need good snow boots with grip. The boots should have grippy

soles.

You should get some good waterproof winter boots.

You also can get some thick socks.

Go to Winners!

 

From yesterday

“Simple Present Tense”

Exercise 3 “Famous Cities”

1.    Vancouver has the second-largest Chinatown in North America.

3.    UAE – United Arab Emerites  The US   The UK   BC   USSR

initials, acronym- the first letters instead of the whole word

BC, ICBC-Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, VCC- Vancouver Community College, UBC- The University of British Columbia, SHEC, CIBC- Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, CD- compact disc, TD Bank- Toronto-Dominion Bank

My initials are AGH. Your initials are EZH. Your initials are HL.

Sometimes you will sign documents. Sometimes, you just initial them.  

 

On a document: Print name.    Signature.

 

3. recommend – suggest

The teacher recommends that you practice English every day.

 

It rains a lot in Vancouver. The weather gets really cold in the winter.

 

altitude – height above sea level

South Hill Education Centre is at an altitude of about 95 meters.

An airplane flies at an altitude of 12000 meters.

 

1       meter= about 3 feet 4 inches

 

4.    Vancouver attracts a lot of tourists in the summer.

attract(verb)   attractive(adjective)   attraction(noun)

She is a very attractive person.

Butter has an attractive personality.

 

“want to VERB”

I want to talk with you.

She wants to visit her sister.

I want to buy a cell phone.

He wants to drive his car to work.

I want to find a new phone.

I want to see my friend.

I want to watching watch a movie.

I want to understand Japanese.

I want to exercise.

I want to date.

I want to go to the mountain.

I want to remember all of the new words.

I want to walk in the park.

We want to take a 10-minute break.

 

 

 

 

 

Simple sentences- first level of sentence for English

 

SV subject verb

S V

 

Forms of simple sentences:

1.    SV

2.    SSV

3.    SVV

 

SV

She likes ice cream. capital letter, period

He wants to go the mountain.

 

SSV

I and my friend My friend and I are students.

South Hill and LINC are places to learn English.

 

SVV

The kids run and play in the park.

 

Models for simple sentences:

SV

SSV

SVV

 

Let’s practice.

Take out your WordList 1.3.

Take out your “100 Most Used Verbs”

Write some simple sentences using this vocabulary.

We will read them out loud later.

Please work together (small groups) if you like. It is more fun.

 

Your examples:

My hands are cold. Capital letter   period/fullstop

The scorpion’s sting hurts. A scorpion stung my son.

A bee stings my hand.

A bee stinger is small.

A snake bites with its teeth fangs.

 

Finish writing a few (4-5) sentences for homework. We will share them tomorrow. You will read out your sentences.