Good morning, everyone.
We will get started at 9:15.
Friday- Butter Day!
His name is Butter.
He is eight and a half years old.
He is Golden Doodle – half golden retriever, half poodle
He is very friendly. He loves people.
He is a good boy!
dog hair- fur
Today’s class plan:
·
“Reviewing the 8 Parts of Speech”
·
Talking and listening exercises- Back and Forth
1.1
Monday
·
Adjective work
·
Work on verbs- “Simple Present Tense of Be”
“Reviewing the 8 Parts of Speech”
1.
Nouns- ideas- happiness, love, education
proper nouns- begin with a capital letter
-city name- Vancouver
-country name- Canada
-your name- Ebrahim ebrahim
-company name- Apple, Sansung
-days of the week, months of the year- Tuesday,
November
-first person pronoun- I
-name of a book or movie- Titanic
-name of a course- English Foundations ½
e.g. She is taking History 12.
She is taking history courses.
-name of planets- Venus Mercury Earth Mars
Jupiter Saturn Neptune Uranus Pluto
2.
Verbs- action verbs- walk, eat, go, study,
sleep, swim, relax, drink, drive, watch, speak, listen, feel
-non-action verb – be “I am tired today.”
3.
adjectives – describe a noun- white, small,
black, beautiful, sad, pretty, expensive, nice, easy, difficult
Order of adjectives:
Opinion Size
Age Shape Colour
Origin Material Purpose
beautiful big
old triangular blue
Japanese leather school
expensive tiny
young square red Canadian cotton
work
She bought nice new blue work
shoes.
I have a red ski hat.
Butter is a very friendly
fluffy white dog.
Vancouver is a very expensive
multi-cultural city.
I have a small beautiful
beautiful small house.
I bought a size small leather
jacket.
I bought a beautiful 32-foot
white trailer.
I have a blue colour
car.
I want to get a well-paying professional
job in the future.
Your sunglasses are nice. She
has nice pink sunglasses.
glasses(plural)
a pair of glasses(singular)
scissors(plural)
a pair of scissors(singular)
My work shoes are comfortable
and skid-proof.
She has comfortable,
skid-proof work shoes.
4.
Adverbs – describe a verb- usually end in ‘ly’
-actions- slowly, quickly, carefully, suddenly,
socially, actually, happily, sadly, normally
lovely, lonely, friendly- adjectives
You must drive your car carefully.
Do your work completely.
Speak honestly with people.
Could you speak a bit more slowly, please?
I am having trouble understanding what you are telling me.
Could you speak slowly, please?
Could you speak more slowly, please?
Could you speak a bit more slowly, please?
Could you speak a little bit more slowly,
please?
Could you speak just a little bit more
slowly, please?
Could you speak more quickly/loudly/softly/clearly,
please?
5.
Pronouns – these days, people can use ‘they’ instead
of ‘he’ and ‘she’
You can always say ‘you’.
6.
Conjunctions – joining words- and, but, so,
because, therefore, also, then, although
7.
Prepositions – show place or directions – to,
in, on, under, above, next to, beside,between, around, for, by
8.
Interjections- Oh! Wow! Yeah. um uh Oh my god!
Talking and listening exercises- Back and Forth 1.1
Get into groups of 3-4 people.
For each group of words, choose one of the words. Make a
sentence with that word.
Say the sentence out loud to your group.
Your classmates will guess which word you are using.
Take turns.
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