EF 1 2 Class 29

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s class plan

·      Midterm recommendations- other half of students

·      “New Years”

·      “Possessive Pronouns”

·      last 25m funny video “Mr Bean Christmas"

 

Monday

·      Review- simple sentences, compound sentences

simple verb tenses

 

Take out your “100 Verbs”. Write simple sentences using simple present, past and future verb tenses.

Extra challenging: Write compound sentences using simple present, past and future verb tenses.

·      New verb tense- present progressive/continuous

 

 

 

Midterm recommendations:

Registration for Quarter 3 begins Tuesday, January 8^th.

On Monday, January 7^th, I will show you how to register using your computer or phone.

The school will send you an email in early January explaining how to register.

I will also show you how to register.

 

Your midterm recommendation that I gave you is a snapshot of where you are right now.

Your average % will change over the last three weeks. It will go up or it will go down.

We have to keep working every day.

 

Biggest challenge for some of us: Difficulty understanding spoken English.

 

 

 

“New Years”

A.Warm-Up Questions

1. January 1^st

lunar New Years- China, Vietnam (Tet), Korea

Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikestan- first day of Spring- Noruz – late March, March 21st

Ethiopia- September 27th

2. go out, barbecue, dancing, singing, wear traditional clothing, traditional food, do karaoke,

Spain and Venezuala – eat 12 grapes

“Happy New Years!!”

Spainish “Feliz Ano Nuevo!!”

Mandarin “Shin Nyung Kwy Lu” New Year Happy

Farsi “sole nyew mobarrak” new year happy

3. New Years resolution- You make a plan for the new year. You want to change something in your life.

 

4. fireworks- in the sky

fire crackers- on the ground

 

a bonfire- a big fire – people can sit around, dance around

 

Vocab

1.celebrate(verb) celebration(noun)

2.calendar

3.official

4.party

5. fireworks

6. countdown

7. trouble

8.burn

9.tradition

10.spirit

 

700 B.C.  before Christ 

 

700 B.C. was how many years ago? 2722 years ago (There was no year 0.)

 

2023 A.D. after death anno domini (Latin) “in the year of our Lord”

 

700 B.C.E. (not commonly used)– before common era- same meaning as B.C.

 

B.C.- British Columbia

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today is Winter Solstice- shortest day of sunlight of the year, longest night, sunset is 4:17

From tomorrow, the days will start getting longer.

Summer Solstice- longest day

Many people feel sad during the winter. They can feel depressed.

We get Vitamin D from sunlight. Vitamin D is very importtn for physical health and mental health. You can take Vitamin D pills to get more Vitamin D.

 

Free things to do over Christmas Break: https://miss604.com/2023/11/free-holiday-activities-in-vancouver-the-valley-2023.html