EF 4 5 Class 10

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

Tomorrow 1pm – Lockdown Drill

P2- period 2

drill- test, practice

At our basketball practice, we ran shooting drills.

 

All school in VSB –

1.fire drill

2.lockdown drill- dangerous person in the school

From the US – school shootings

In Canada- very rare

 

Practice in case something like that occurs-

Turn off the lights.

Turn off our ringers on our phones.

Close the door.

Everybody hides on the side of the classroom furthest from the door.

 

 

Today’s agenda

·      Return Quiz #2- simple sentences

Optional Rewrite for one bonus point

Submit that today or first thing (beginning of class) tomorrow.

·      Finish “Family Relationships”

·      Begin compound sentences

·      Begin phrasal verbs, do a few every day

verb + preposition

‘look’

·      Go over some more of the “Top 100 Most Used Verbs in American English”

·      Pronunciation of the Day- daily pronunciation work- minimal pairs and tongue twisters

 

Wednesday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quiz#2

Use lined ruled paper.

Write in pen.

Doublespace.

Write between the margins.

Full name and class in top right hand corner.

Dictionaries and phones away.

No communication between students.

 

Write a simple sentence for each.

Submit them by 9:40.

1.    SSV                        shopping

2.    SV                          experience

3.    Question- interrogative                   exercise

4.    SVV                        encourage

5.    Command- imperative                    remember

6.    SSVV                     health

 

SS VV -SIMPLE

I am worried about my health, so I exercise every day.

SVSV - COMPOUND

 

SSVV- SIMPLE

Sarah and Michelle go for a walk and talk about their parents’ health.

 

1.    SSV                        shopping

May and Sarah are going to go to shopping at Metrotown next Monday night.

 

She is going to PLACE. She is going to school.

She is going to GERUND/ACTION NOUN. She is going hiking.

 

Exceptions: She is going to PLACE

She is going to school.

She is going to Japan.

She is going to a restaurant.

Exceptions:

She is going to home. She is going home.

She is going to downtown. She is going downtown.

 

She is going to my home. She is going to her sister’s home.

She is going to home.

 

ANY VERB TENSE

SIMPLE PRESENT She goes home/downtown at 5 o’clock every day.

SIMPLE PAST She went home/dowtown early on Friday.

SIMPLE FUTURE She will go home/downtown after work today.

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE She is driving home/downtown right now.

PAST PROGRESSIVE She was driving home/downtown when she got a flat tire.

PRESENT PERFECT She has driven home/downtown the same route every day for two years.

PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE She has been driving home/downtown for 25 minutes already.

 

**These seven (7) are the most important verb tenses. I will teach them.

 

 

translation problem between Farsi and English

true/right

Is this true? not a lie

Is this right/correct? no error

 

 

COMPLEX SENTENCE

She exercises every day because/since she wants to be healthy.

 

 

Imperative-command “remember”

Remember to close the door.

Don’t forget to close the door.

Remember to call your sister. It’s her birthday.

Remember my advice. Remember what I told you.

Remember what I told you about credit cards.

 

Remember my advice.

(You) remember my advice. ‘You” implied subject

 

SSVV

 

SS V and V.

Sarah and John like hiking and go every weekend.

 

SV

My mother encourages me to work hard and be kind. SVV

 

 

SVV

My mother encourages me to work hard and wants me to be kind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

***Family Relationships***

 

Arjun Kumar’s Family Tree

Pair Work – A and B work together to figure out who goes in what part of the family tree.

 

Exercise C

1.    Your brother or your sister is your sibling.

2.     

10. close family / immediate family

18. maternal

19. paternal

 

REVIEW

1.

2. sibling/sister

3.maternal grandfather

4.daughter / child

5.aunt or mother

 

cousin- first cousin, second cousin, third cousin

 

8.    paternal grandmother

9.    brother / me/myself

 

IDIOM She is her mother’s daughter.

looks like/ acts like

IDIOM She is the spit and image of her grandmother. They look the same.

They look like each other.

They V act/sing/walk/talk the same.

They seem/appear the same. XXX

 

He acts/looks the same as his brother.

They look the same but have totally different personalities.

 

13. father / uncle

14. grandmother / maternal grandmother

16. sister / sister-in-law

18. son / child

19. nephew

20. father / stepfather

 

Other vocab for family relationships:

-infant- newborn-just born, baby-until six months, one year

-neonate- still in the hospital

-toddler- able to walk

-adolescent- young teenager

-young adult- 19-25

-senior / senior citizen – over 60,65

You can get the senior’s discount.

-baby of the family- the youngest child

-the middle child

-baby boom – increase in new babies between 1946-1965

Second World War  1939-1945

 

He is a baby boomer. He is a boomer.

She is Generation X.

He is Generation Y.

-generation gap – communication gap and difference of opinion

-sandwich generation-

 

 

 

 

 

*** “Top 100 Most Used Verbs In American English”

 

***Pronunciation of the Day***