Good morning, everyone.
This is the Period 1 (9:15-11:30 am) class for these
courses:
English Foundations 1
English Foundations 2
Speaking and Listening 1/2
We will get started at 9:15.
Teacher: Allan Haley
Email address: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca
Write down my email address: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca
I also sent an email yesterday.
Did you get my email?
Please call me by my first name: Allan
Today’s class plan:
·
Welcome!
·
Covid
·
Discuss structure of course
Class procedures
Quizzes and tests
·
Small group talking
·
Homework Read “The Kiwi”. We will work on this tomorrow
Wednesday
·
Distribute, go over Prescribed Learning Outcomes
·
Go over marking scale
·
“The Kiwi”
·
Personal introductions
·
Student questionaire
*** IMPORTANT ***
***CLASS BLOG***
Everything that you see on this screen, I will put up on our
class blog.
I will post it online everyday.
CLASS BLOG: haleyshec.blogspot.com
Write this down: haleyshec.blogspot.com
Everything I put on this screen will be posted to my class
blog afterward.
I will update our class blog every day after class.
You can check the blog as much as you like. There is no sign
in, no password. It’s all public. People from all over the world visit my blog.
It’s cool.
ACTION
·
Go to the blog now. Make sure you can open it.
Open your web browser
iphone Safari
Type haleyshec.blogspot.com into the address
bar
Let me know if you are having trouble
opening my blog.
Any trouble getting in? We’ll figure it out.
Let me know.
If yes? Good!
If no? Let me know. I can help.
Student WIFI
You can use the school wireless- wifi
VSB-Commons
Password: AeQACYUf
NAMES
I would like to call you by your first name if you don’t
mind.
If you have a English name, just let me know, and I will try
to remember.
*** Covid19 protocols: wear masks, clean hands***
Feel free to wear a mask if you want to.
When do you wear a mark?
-in hospital
-when you are sick
-on the bus and skytrain
-shopping mall
-in supermarket
-big meeting
-at a music concert
-party, social gathering
-school
I will not wear a mask when I’m teaching.
problem with masks – can’t see our faces, lose a lot of
non-verbal communication- facial expressions, lip reading
This is the reason that talking on the telephone is not
easy.
You isolated yourself for five days.
isolate(v)- be by yourself, nobody near you
Sometimes we can get a rash on our face from wearing a mark.
rash- irritated red skin
Babies get rashes from diapers.
My glasses fog up. I can’t see anything.
There are spray bottles at the front of the class.
Regularly spray your hands with the spray bottle.
Spray and wipe your desk.
We must wash our hands often.
Our skin gets dry. We have to use moisturizer.
***Course dates***
Tuesday, November 14th to Friday, January 26th,
2024. (Final day)
Times: Monday to Friday, 9:15-11:30 am
Our classes are two and a quarter hours long.
2 ¼
a quarter, 25c coin
Our classes are 2 hours and 15 minutes.
Nine weeks of class
Holidays – Non-instructional Days
·
Remembrance Day Holiday- Monday, November 13
·
Christmas Holiday, Winter Break- Saturday, December
23rd- January 7th
(last day of
school is Friday December 22; first day back is Monday January 8)
The Gulf Islands – nice to visit
You have to take a ferry or even two ferries.
***Parking***
You can get a parking pass for the school parking lot.
Scan the QR code on the orange sheet of paper.
QR- quick response
Use the camera on your phone.
Open the webpage.
Fill in your licence plate.
You will be able to park until February 2nd,
2024.
***Structure of the class***
EF- English Foundations
SL- Speaking and Listening
Split class: EF1, EF2 and SL 1/2
We are all together in the same class.
When you are successful in this class:
English Foundations 1 --- move up to next level, EF2
English Foundations 2 --- move up to next level, EF3
Speaking and Listening 1/2 - extra class, not core
You have to take EF 1,2,3… to graduate.
English classes in this school:
EF 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7/English 10, 11, 12
*You can take your time. No need to rush.
There is no EF8, 9
After English 12 – college, university
You can do it!
There are lots of opportunities for adults to go to finish
high school and go to college and university.
Sometimes students take a class and then leave the school
for a quarter or two. They can come back later when they have time.
If they go away for a long time- a year- they may have to do
a new intake test.
You can study English, math, science in this school.
Usually you can start to study science when you are in EF7/English
10
You can take two courses at a time.
** Quizzes and Tests**
Quizzes – about 7, short sentence quizzes, 6 sentences 6pts each
Tests- short paragraphs, short pieces of writing 12pts
each
Spoken
**Attendance**
*** 10-minute break***
Any questions, just ask. This will be a fun relaxed class.
We will learn a lot. It will be a chill class.
SLANG chill- relaxed, not too serious
She is a very chill person.
“First Day Icebreaker”
challenges- difficult(adjective),
difficulties(noun), hard to do
Language and social
challenges for newcomers to a new country
-immigrate on their
own, small family
-friends, extended
family back home
-hard to have a
good happy if you don’t have a network
I hope that you
have a network of people in Vancouver.
-network- friends,
coworkers, colleagues
-feel isolated,
lonely, depressed
-miss your home
country, homesick
-need social
support
Learn more English!
-feel part of the
community
-meet new people –
-talk with new
people
-networking(verb)-
loose connections between people
-social network-
-getting
comfortable talking with new people
-overcoming, dealing
with shyness
-listening to new
accents
FIRST DAY
ICEBREAKER:
Get into groups of
4-5 people. Choose some people who you don’t know yet. Ideally choose people
who do not speak your mother language.
A. Chat with your partners.
1. Name
2. Home
3. Family
4. Job
5. Travel
6. Hobbies
7. Future plans
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