Lockdown Drill today
drill- practice
VSB, college- annual
drills
-Fire Drills
-Earthquake Drill
-Lockdown Drill –
dangerous person in the school
You can donate
non-perishable food items for the Vancouver Food Bank at Superstore, etc.
You can make tax-deductible
donations to a variety of charities and organizations.
crooked- not
straight, dishonest
He was a crooked
politician. He took bribes.
She was paid under
the table. She did not declare the income on her annual taxes.
This is tax season.
You have to file
your taxes every year with CRA.
CRA- Canada Revenue
Agency
You have to declare
your income- salary, interest on bank accounts, foreign income, pension, OAS
(Old Age Supplement), Canada Pension,
You also have make
a declaration at Customs.
declare(verb)
declaration(noun)
You may get a
refund.
If you are an
employee, you will get a T4.
If you are
self-employed, you will have use a T4A.
BCAA, Blue Cross-
travel insurance
MY ADVICE: Keep
your T4s, charity donation receipts, tuition payments, etc., for seven years.
I keep mine in a
Banker’s Box. I have a bankers box for receipts and another bankers’box for tax
things.
You can get a safety
deposit box in your bank.
You can have a small
safe in your house.
Today’s agenda
· Collect Test#2 RW
· Go over verb tenses
· Teach compound sentences-semicolons
· “Thought Questions”
· Begin “I Confess”
· “Literary Terms”
· Daily pronunciation
Thursday
Friday
Verb tenses for writing about “Ice Storm”
-SIMPLE PRESENT, PAST, FUTURE
-PRESENT PAST, FUTURE PROGRESSIVE
-PRESENT PAST, FUTURE PERFECT
-PRESENT PAST, FUTURE PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
-modals / modal auxiliaries– suggest time frame
*one-word modals
can
could
may
might
must
should
will
would
-shall
Shall we?- time to go
Shall We Dance Richard Gere or the original Japanese
version
*two-word modals
had better
have to
need to
ought to- should
*three-word modals
be able to
be going to
have got to
The boys saved the pheasants. simple
past- the events of the story
I would have saved the pheasants.- imagining a situation
I would do this.I would do that. – suggests the future
If I had a million dollars, I would buy a solid gold toothbrush.
subjunctive mood- imagining a situation
Is she were/was(casual) the boss, the store would be profitable.
SAYING If I were you, I would blah blah blah.
I would save the pheasants. – suggests the future
I would protect them.
I would have saved the pheasants- suggests
the past
The boys saved the pheasants. I would have saved the pheasants, too.
saved- simple past- truth, happened in the story
would have saved – not truth, imagining, subjunctive, suggest
the past
I would have protected them. –
casting yourself into the past tense story, imagining what you would have done
Choose your tense, and stick with it.
I would save the pheasants.
I would have saved the pheasants,
too
You should maintain tense.
I would take off my jacket. – suggests
an imaginative future
I would have taken off my
jacket. – suggests an imaginative past
taken- past participle
present past participle
take took taken
save saved saved
eat ate eaten
study studied studied
I have studied English for five
years. present perfect
I have been studying English for five
years.
suggests the past
I might have taken off my jacket to save them.
I may have carried them home.
I could have helped them.
If I had had that opportunity, I
might have taken off my jacket to save them. past perfect- not commonly used
-subsitute simple past If I had
that opportunity, I might have taken off my jacket to save them.
If I had been was / were in that situation, I might have
taken off my jacket to save them.
I have had insomnia for the whole
week. present perfect
I had had insomnia for the whole
week. past perfect
I had insomnia for the whole week. substitute
simple past
I have eaten/have had dinner
already. present perfect
I ate / had dinner already. simple past
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