EF 4 5 Class 8

 

Good morning, everyone.

Wednesday

Slang/Idiom- Hump Day- middle of the week, feels like a long day, low energy, blah day

Hump Day- after today- start to think about Friday and the weekend

 

Valentine’s Day- February 14^th- be extra nice to spouse or sweetheart

 

husband, wife- spouse, partner, significant other

My partner is in Kelowna today.

I will have to ask my significant other.

 

Forms- government forms – spouse

 

CASUAL WORDS- terms of endearment- hubby, sweetheart, honey, dear

 

Vocabulary for family- I will bring it later today.

You can look it over for homework. We can talk about them tomorrow.

 

 

Today’s agenda

·      Continue simple sentences

Your examples from HW

Explain the structure of the quizzes

Prepare for Quiz #2

Choose vocabulary words for the quiz.

·      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

 

Thursday

·      Quiz#2 – simple sentences

·      “Family Relationships” - vocabulary

·      Begin compound sentences

·      Begin phrasal verbs, do a few every day

‘look’

 

 

Friday

·      Professional Development

No school for you.

School for me.

 

Monday

·      Holiday- BC Famly Day

No school for us.

 

Tuesday

·      Back to the grind!

 

IDIOM ‘the grind’ – job, work

“Back to the grind!” It’s time to get back to work.

 

IDIOMS- working hard

“Put your shoulder to the wheel.”

“Nose to the grindstone.”

 

 

These are some of the simple sentences that you sent me for

homework. Extra point!

Simple sentences- SV   SVV   SSV   SSVV   Imperative-command

Interrogative- question

Homwork – Send a few sentences (3-4). Send them by 7PM.

You have about 7 ¼ hours to send 3-4 sentences.

If you are working late, you can send them late.

 

 

1.    The dog barks loudly. SV

2.    She dances gracefully. SV

3.    Mona and Martin sleep peacefully. SSV

4.    Sarah and Jillian run together in the park. SSV

5.    Emily cooks and cleans the kitchen. SVV

6.    The cat sleeps and purrs. SVV

7.    My son repairs Apple laptops and mobile phones at the store. SV

8.    My daughter teaches Pre-Calculus at Langara College. SV 

9.    My daughter played the piano and sang at the party. SVV 

10.                      I am happy and excited for my daughter who graduated. SV

adjectives

11.                      My family and I went on a trip last year. SSV

12.                      I gave a red envelope to my son in Lunar New Year. SV

13.                      My son and I made a Basque Cheesecake in the afternoon. SSV

14.                      He cuts some wood and binds them together. SVV

15.                      How much time do you spend on your phone a day?

16.                      What kind of movie do you like?

17.                      My brother and I went for a walk.

 

 

 

18.                      Zahra and her sister emigrate to Canada. SSV

immigrate – come into a country

emigrate- leave a country

Zahra and her sister immigrated to Canada. SSV

Zahra and her sister emigrated from Iran. SSV

 

19.                      My uncle and his boss travelled to the US. SSV

20.                      We learn and practice simple sentence this morning. SVV

vt            We learned and practiced simple sentences this morning. simple past

We are learning and practicing simple sentences this morning. present progressive

 

I feel/am feeling good this morning. simple present

I felt great this morning. simple past

VERB TENSE

The lion is staring and is moving slowly toward the deer. SVV- SIMPLE

The lion is staring, and moving slowly toward the deer. XXX no comma

The lion is staring, and it is moving slowly toward the deer. COMPOUND

*I will start teaching compound sentences tomorrow.

 

words in a series- use a comma

She likes hiking, swimming, and walking. 3 nouns in a series- use commas

She eats breakfast, gets dressed, and goes to work. 3 verbs in a series- use commas  SIMPLE SENTENCES - SVVV

Comma before and   , and  Oxford Comma- Your choice

She eats breakfast, gets dressed, and goes to work.

She eats breakfast, gets dressed and goes to work.

Both are ok.

 

Your choice-  and  or  , and

She is/was interested in drawing, photography, and singing. 3 nouns in a series

She is/was interested in drawing, photography and singing.

 

21.                      They watch a movie/ two movies and eat popcorn. SVV

22.                      She reads an article and writes some new vocabulary. SVV

 

Good work on the simple sentences.

This is the foundation of all of our writing. We have to know it cold.

IDIOM know something cold- know it automatically, muscle memory

 

You have to practice everyday. That is the basic requirement.

 

Quiz tomorrow about simple sentences

All quizzes will be six sentences.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MODEL QUIZ

Write a simple sentence for each.

1. SVV        park

Maria drove to Metrotown and parked her car in the garage.

The kids ran and played in the park.

2. SSV        walk

3. SV           live

4. SSVV     buy

5. Imperative     open

6. Interrogative fix

 

 

We will choose 10 words of vocab to review for the quiz. I wiil choose six of the words for the quiz.

1.    school (n,v)

2.    shopping(n,v)

3.    energy(n)

4.    experience(n,v)

5.    exercise(n,v)

6.    connect(v)

7.    encourage(v)

8.    remember(v)

9.    health(n)

10.                      solve(v)

 

You can change word forms: health- healthy- healthily

 

Tomorrow

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prepositions- very important in English

                     -tricky

verb + preposition

talk to         She talked to her son.

talk with    She talked with her son.

talk about  We talked about Sarah. -topic of dicussion, suggests gossip

He likes to talk about people. – gossip, rumour

He talked some historical place. -giving information

 

talk for       I talked for my son when we went to the doctor’s office.

talk over

talk under

 

phrasal verbs- heart of English

 

 

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

What are some verbs that are new or a little unclear to you?

 

100. remain -stay, not move

Joan’s husband moved to Calgary for work. Joan stayed/remained in Vancouver.

We ate six dumplings. Four dumplings remain.

Remaining in difficulties can suffer us. RW

Remaining in a difficult marriage can cause you suffering make you unhappy/sad/upset/miserable/depressed.

The people in Gaza remain in a desperate situation.

 

90. serve

The restaurants serves excellent Indian curry.

He served coffee to his guests.

guest house- a small house for visitors

Boris Becker served the ball to the other player.

She serves underhand. He serves overhand.

 

68. lead

The tourguide leads the group around Gastown.

lead(v) leader(n, person)

I really like my team-leader at work.

 

38. seem- did yesterday

 

87. appear- seem – make a good guess, infer(v)

It appears that the bus is not coming.

 

86. consider – think about, think over, ruminate

She is considering changing her job.

She is of two minds. She can’t decide.

IDIOMS She is on the horns of a dilemma.

dilemma- a tough situation with no good solution

 

 

 

 

***Pronunciation of the Day***