Thursday, 14 December 2023

EF1 2 Class 23

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s class plan (We will end at 11 o’clock. I have a teacher’s meeting.)

·      Begin presentation work

·      Begin compound sentences

·      Finish- Word List 1.4

·      Read “Latin Music and Salsa”

 

Friday

·      Continue compound sentences

·      Practice- simple present, past and future tenses

Practice using “100 Verbs”

·      Continue work on your presentation

Sign up sheet

·      Continue practice- simple present, past and future

 

Monday

·      Presentation Day or Finish preparing for presentations

·      Teach how to use a microphone

 

Tuesday

·      Presentation Day          You will come to front of the class and talk to the class about a topic.

 

Wednesday

·      Presentation Day

 

Thursday

·      Midterm recommendations-

I will meet with each person individually in the hallway.

We will chat about what you want to do next quarter.

We will look at your marks: Tests and spoken in-class.

The cut-off for early registration is 65%.

We want the stongest students to register first.

The other students can register after a week or so.

The final passmark is 50%.

 

Friday

·      Midterm recommendations

 

 

 

Oral Presentation: A Person in My Life Who I Admire

oral- speaking

 

Who is a person in your life who you admire? Choose one person.

admire- respect, look up to, want to emulate (act like, copy)

 

It can be anyone: older, younger, a sibling, parent, relative, friend, community member, etc. This person can be from your home country, Canada, or anywhere. It must be somebody that you know personally.

This week, you will put together a short presentation about that person. There will be two main parts to this project:

 

WRITTEN (6 points)

A couple of paragraphs.

-Writing describing who they are. Write a brief biography (the story of their life) for them. What is their name, age, etc? Give their background. Some details of their biography. Explain who they are.

-Writing explaining why you admire them. What characteristics do they have that you admire? What do they do that you admire?

 

          You will give me the writing the day before you do your presentation.

 

SPOKEN (2-3 minutes) (4 points)

On the presentation days, you will tell the class about this person and why you admire them. You will come to the front of the class and talk to us. You can take a few written notes in case you forget something. However, no reading, please.

 

Here are some possible topics to focus on:

Their life story

Their personality traits

Things they have said

Their greatest achievements

Their effect on other people

When you met this person

Why you admire them

If you’d like to be like them or not

 

We will start getting ideas together starting tomorrow. We will take some time in the next few classes to organize, write, and polish.

 

ACTION: In class tomorrow, you can tell me the name of the person and your relationship to them.

 

We will the presentations over three days next week: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

 

Sign up for a spot on the sheet at the front of the class. We will do 6 per day.

 

 

EXTRA- SPECIAL SKILL

Also, I will teach people how to use a microphone.

You can use a mic for your presentation.

 

I’ll also give some basic pointers about public speaking.

 

STEPS FOR TODAY

1.    Choose which person you want to write about.

2.    Brainstorm ideas

3.    Begin to write

Focus on nice simple sentences.

Focus on simple present, simple past, and simple future verb tenses.

 

 

 

REMINDER ABOUT SENTENCES FOR WRITING AND TALKING:

SIMPLE- SV   SSV   SVV

 

COMPOUND-      SV, so SV.

                               SV, or SV.

                               SV, but SV.

SV, and SV.

 

SIMPLE My best friend’s name is Ali Icecream. He is from UAE. We went to school together.

 

COMPOUND He lives in UAE, but I live in Canada. I studied computers, and he studied business. He will visit Canada next year, so we will hang out together.

IDIOM hang out- spend time together

 

We hang out. We hung out. We will hang out.

 

We will continue writing this tomorrow in class.

We will finish them on Monday.

 

 

REMINDER for when I mark your tests.

 

Test#4 4/6 DOUBLE IT 8/12

Rewrite- Bonus points 1/1

 

 

“Latin Music and Salsa”

 

Movies-

“Lambada”

“Dirty Dancing”

“Shall We Dance”

 

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