EF 1 2 Class 39

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s class plan

·      Your example sentences

·      Finish job interview work

·      Review verb tenses

·      Begin complex sentences- adverb clauses

This is the last kind of sentence that we will be learning.

·      Work on presentations

“My Culture”- presentation-

Prepare a short presentation about some aspect of your culture.

It could be about a holiday or celebration, a tradition, art, music, food, whatever you like.

You will come to front of the class and tell us about it.

 

Work to finish in the next week and a half:

·      NEW ITEM “Articles” Practice present progressive/continuous verb tense

 

Wednesday

·      Work on presentations

·      Test#6 - paragraph

 

Thursday

·      Presentations

 

Friday- final day

·      Marks day

·      One-on-one meetings

 

 

 

Possessive pronouns:

I my

you your

he his

she her

we our

they their

it its

Shira Shira’s   ‘ apostrophe

 

Some examples from homework

1.    I just got a call from my sister, she transferred her pictures to me afterwards.

FIX

I just got a call from my sister. She transferred her pictures to me afterwards. SIMPLE

I just got a call from my sister, and she transferred her pictures to me afterwards. COMPOUND

 

2.    I was shopped yesterday, and I bought my first time eating fruit pomegranates. Its taste was amazing. PHRASING- TRANSLATION

I was shopping yesterday, and I ate a pomegranate for the first time. Its taste was amazing.

 

3.    I cooked last night, and my stir-fry was noodles.

REWRITE

I cooked last night, and I made stir-fry with noodles.

 

4. Tofu is my favourite food, and I eat it every week, but its cooking way that I can do was just frying and stewing.

 

You shouls just use simple and compound sentences.

 

Tofu is my favourite food, and I eat it every week. I just fry or stew it.

 

4.    My neighbours are a lot of students from China. They all cooked by themselves, even though their skills are very different.

 

Simple present, past, and future

 

5.    I had two cars, and I wanna want to sell one of them because their spending was too much.

I have two cars, and I want to want to sell one of them because it is too expensive.

 

You can become more familiar with real English.

 

 

 

“Interviewing for a Job”

“Dialogue Reading”

dialogue- conversation between two people

Interviewer(noun)- a person who interviews someone for a job

Applicant(noun)- a person who wants to get a job apply(verb)

application form

resume- list of your education and work experience

 

Get into groups of two or three. Practice reading the dialogue out loud to each other. Use the alternatives to change the written dialogue.

Practice that.

Later, we will read them out loud.

 

position- poe zi shun

musician mue zi shun

 

boss, principal, supervisors, administrators- managers

 

It’s nice to meet you. I am happy to meet you. It is a pleasure to meet you. Very nice to meet you. Pleased to meet you.

 

self-motivated(adj)

motivation(noun) – a desire or drive to accomplish your goal, you have a reason to do the hard work

You are very motivated to get strong at English.

You have drive!

 

 

Last 30 minutes of class

Let’s take some time to work on our presentation projects or work on the vocabulary exercises.