EF1 2 Class 35

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s class plan

·      Quiz#2- simple and compound sentences

·      Continue new verb tense- present progressive/continuous

·      “Possessive Pronouns”

·      NEW ITEM “Articles”

·      Vocab talking exercise

 

Tuesday

·      Return Quiz#2

Rewrite for 1 bonus point

·      Continue present progressive/continuous verb tense

·      Begin complex sentences- adverb clauses

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

 

Wednesday

·      Continue complex sentences- adverb clauses

 

 

Review of sentence types so far.

SIMPLE

SV   SSV   SVV

*Begin with a capital letter.

*End with a period or a question mark.

SVV cold

Sarah felt cold yesterday and stayed indoors. simple past

feel felt   stay stayed

 

COMPOUND

SV, SOBA SV.   so or but and

and snow

It snowed on Saturday, and the kids played outside in the park.

 

These are important writing skills that we will need in EF2,3,4,5,6, etc.

Most of the communication that you will have a teacher will be written.

 

 

Quiz #2

Pass in by 9:58 (30m)

Write a sentence for each. Choose any verb tense that you like.

SIMPLE SENTENCES

1. visit         SV

2. walk        SSV

3. store       SVV

COMPOUND SENTENCES

4. vacation and

5. airport   but   

6. snow      so

 

 

 

Our verb tenses in EF1/2:

Simple present

Simple past

Simple future

Present progressive/continuous

 

play

Simple present- She plays basketball with her friends every Monday at the community centre. SV

Her friends and she play basketball every Monday from 6-8. SSV

 

Simple past

He played bandura in Ukraine when he was a kid. COMPLEX SENTENCE

Doris played dolls with her daughter last night / yesterday evening.

 

Simple future

We will play cards at your house tomorrow night.

They will gamble a bit on the card games.

They gamble with fruits or nuts or candies.

We would play for pennies.

penny = cent = 1 cent coin

5-cent coin = nickel

10-cent coin = dime

25-cent coin = quarter

one-dollar coin = loonie- loon  The bird on the coin is a loon.

two-dollar coin - toonie

 

1 one

10 ten

100 one hundred         I have two hundreds dollars under my mattress.

1000 one thousand     There are two thousands people in the park

10000 ten thousand 

100000 one hundred thousand

1 000 000 one million

10 000 000 ten million

100 000 000 one hundred million- 500 000 000 five hundred million

1 000 000 000 one billion

10 000 000 000 ten billion

100 000 000 000 one hundred billion

1 000 000 000 000 one trillion

The size of US economy in 2022 was 25.44 trillion dollars.

The size of the Chinese economy in 2022 was 17.96 trillion dollars.

The size of the Canadian economy in 2022 was 2 trillion dollars.

 

 

 

She has lived here for two years.

 

SIMPLE PRESENT

SIMPLE PAST

SIMPLE FUTURE

 

NEW VERB TENSE- present progressive/continuous

‘ing’

is walking   am walking   are walking – happening right now

 

Exercise 4

1.    What are you doing? I am watching the football game.

2.    What are you saying?

3.    Is Maznah making a tuna sandwich or a chicken sandwich?

4.    They are going to Dallas by car.

Dallas, Texas, USA   Dallas has a famous semiconductor factory.

5.    I’m taking some medicine for my cold.

I am eating drinking taking medicine.

6.    He is coming here now.

7.    I’m using a pencil.

8.    The weather is getting cold. The weather will be getting cold tomorrow. future progressive

9.    We are working harder then ever.

10.                       Yousef is giving an importnt speech now.

She gave a speech to the conference.

11.                       What are you looking at?

12.                       I’m telling you the truth.

13.                       The students are writing a test.

We are writing Christmas cards.

14.                       Why are showing me your brother’s ID?

ID- identification, driver’s licence

15.                       Who are you calling?

16.                       We are moving all of these boxes today.

17.                       It is beginning/starting to rain.

18.                       The leaves are turning colour.

19.                       Why are you leaving your job? leave a job- quit

20.                       I’m asking you to help me.

21.                       The movie is ending now. The class is finishing now. The class is wrapping up now.

IDIOM wrap up – finish

22.                       She’s opening her presents.

23.                       Are we following the directions exactly?

24.                       The boss/teacher is presenting new information.

25.                       He is holding his pen in his left hand.

26.                       They’re planning his wedding.

27.                       It’s running behind the tree.

28.                       Matt is keeping his coins in a secret place.