Monday, 11 March 2024

EF 1 2 Monday, March 11

 

Reminder: haleyshec.blogspot.com

 

We will Monday-Thursday this week.

We have two-week break – Spring Break

We will come back to school on Tuesday, April 2nd

After that, we will have class M-Th until Thursday, April 18th.

 

Registration for Quarter 4 (April-June) will begin Tuesday, April 2nd.

 

English Foundations 1 – stay in English Foundations 1 or go to English Foundations 2

It depends on your marks.

Melanie will give you a midterm report on Wednesday or Thursday this week.

 

Today we will have a Lockdown Drill at 7:30

drill -practice, test

VSB  - threee kinds of drills that we do every year.

1.    Fire Drill

2.    Earthquake Drill

3.    Lockdown Drill

 

Lockdown Drill – there is a dangerous person in the school.

 

US- America – many school shootings

 

There are very few rules about owning a gun in the US.

In Canada, there are many rules about owning guns.

 

 

 

 

 

Today’s class plan:

·      “Going to the Bank” from homework

·      Continue “Past Tense of Regular and Irregular Verbs” from homework

·      “100 Most Used Nouns and Verbs in English”

·      “Back and Forth 2.1” listening and talking exercise

·      Test#4 Write a paragraph to pass in.

 

We will have class this week. Then we will have a two-week Spring Break (March 18-April 1).

Then we will come to school on Tuesday, April 2nd.

 The last day of this class will be Thursday, April 18th.

 

Registration for Quarter 4 classes will begin April 2nd. You can register for the Quarter 4 on April 2nd.

I will find the out the dates for Quarter 4.

We will give you midterm recommendations this week or after Spring Break.

 

 

 

“Going to the Bank”

A.   Warm-Up Questions

1.    teller or bank machine/ATM

Maria is a teller at the bank.

2.    credit card, cash, online payment, cheque, ApplePay, Wallet, crypto,

3.    deposit- put money into your bank account

withdrawal- take money out of your bank account

 

B.    1.manager – C

staff- the workers

2.account-E

3. chequing- F

He opened a chequing account. She opened a savings account.

4.    N

money = funds  He has funds for a new iphone.

5.    G

6.    B

7.    A

He gets a paycheque every two weeks. She pays her monthly rent by cheque.

8.    overdraft-M

He took out $100 at the ATM. He only had $80 in his account. Now his account is overdraft by $20.

9.    PIN- H

ID- identification

10.           L

11.           J

12.           D

13.           I

He endorsed / signed the cheque in front of the teller.

sign(verb) signature(noun)

He signed the cheque. He wrote his signature on the cheque.

Please sign here.

14.           K

He talked to the teller at the bank. The teller helped her deposit her paycheque.

 

Canada – cheque

The US – check

-same pronunciation, different spelling

 

If you have a chequing account, you will get a chequebook. You will be able to write cheques.

If you have a savings account, you can’t write cheques.

 

check – look at, try to find something

He checked his phone for his friends’ phone number.

 

check – put a piece of luggage onto an airplane

I checked my luggage at the airport. I also had a carry-on bag.

 

cheque- paper slip used as money

 

Dialogue Reading

Manager

Customer

 

helpful(adjective) helping somebody

She is helpful to her neighbours.

handle(verb) take care of a situation, deal with a situation

He has to handle a problem at work.

drive-through- stay in your car, get service from your car

 

Dialogue Reading-

 

 

 

“Past Tense of Regular and Irregular Verbs”

Exercise 6 “Practicing -ed Pronuncation in Context”

a.     robbed He robbed the bank.

b.    waited

c.     needed

d.    erased

e.    washed

f.      failed

g.     sneezed

h.    passed

i.       ironed He ironed his shirt.

j.       signed

k.     cooked

l.       carried

m. helped

n.    folded

 

 

 

Test #4. Write a short paragraph.

Write in pen.

Doublespace

Write between the margins.

Past tense

“What did you do for fun in your home country?”

 

 

 

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