EF45 Class 4

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 12:00

 

Today’s agenda

·      Continue introducing one of your partners.

·      Continue sentence work

Use examples from Friday writing

·      “Interviewing for a Job”

Group discussion

Dialogues

·      Pronunciation work/Minimal Pairs

 

Wednesday

·      Continue sentence work- overview of the three sentence types that we will be learning this term: simple, compound, complex

·      Begin paragraph work

 

Thursday

·      Continue paragraph work

·      Begin simple sentences

 

Friday

·      Test#1 – easy topic- paragraph of at least 150 ww

·      Continue simple sentences

Prepare for Quiz#1 on Monday – simple sentences

Explain the structure of the quiz

Choose vocabulary to review for the quiz

 

Monday

·      Quiz#1-simple sentences

 

 

A.       Chat with your partners.

1.       Name

2.       Home

3.       Family

4.       Job

5.       Travel

6.       Hobbies

7.       Future plans

B. Tomorrow- Introduce one of your partners to the class.

 

 

she/he- tricky for Mandarin speakers

She wants to learn staging.

staging- decorating a home when it is for sale, interior design

 

hair design-

beauty salon- a place where women get their hair cut, trimmed, permed, coloured

If you have long hair, you can get split ends.

Some people use hair relaxer

She went grey.

I am losing my hair. I am balding. I am going bald. His hair is thinning.

Most men go to a barber.

 

Amol is north of Iran.

Amol is the north of Iran.

Amol is northern Iran.

 

Azarbajan is north of Iran.

 

‘z’ zee zed

 

I am from north eastern China.

I am from eastern Canada.

 

She wants to have a private art gallery.

She would like to have a private art gallery.

She wishes to have a private art gallery. Less common

 

She enjoying knitting.

knitting – knitting needles and yarn

sewing- needle and thread

She sewed a button on her shirt.

crocheting-

needlepoint-

 

She was born in Tehran.

She walks her dog everyday.

She walks with her friend everyday.

 

I showed my friend around the city. I showed them the sights.

We went to New York and saw the sights.

 

Her hobby is yoga.

Her hobby is doing yoga.

 

He just moved to Canada last January.

just- little, small amount

This cost just $10.

It will take just/only 15 minutes.

 

She is looking for a job.

She is looking for work.

She is on the hunt for a job.

She is job hunting.

 

He has been in Canada for four years.

He has been in Canada since 2020.

 

He and his wife have two kids: a boy and a girl.

VOCAB son/daughter I will give you some family vocabulary his week.

 

 

EF45

You did some sentence writing on Friday for the Questionaire.

I chose some of the sentences for revision.

VOCAB revision(n) – changes, improvements

review(v)- study

revise(v)- to make changes, to make improvements

Abdul is revising his resume.

Sarah is revising her travel plans.

 

Many of these are focussed on verb form and verb tense.

1.    I tooked EF4 last term.

I took EF4 last term.

SIMPLE PRESENT, PAST, AND FUTURE

take   took   will take

run   runned ran

eat   eated ate  will eat

 

2.    I need to learning more English

I need to learn more English.

I need to VERB.

She needs to call her mother.

I need to go get groceries.

I need to improve m English.

 

3.    I want learning more English.

I want to learn more English.

 

4.    I choosing to talk this course, because I wanna to improve speaking.

I am choosing to take this course, because I wanna to improve my speaking.

I choose to take this course because I wanna want to improve my speaking.

I want to take this course.

I want to get into this course.

I want to register in this course.

 

5.    I want you know that I am hard work person for learning.

I want you to know that I am a hardworking person.

hardworking(adj)

I am  hard worker person. XXX

FIXES

I am a hard worker.

I am a hardworking person.

I work hard. work(v) hard(adv)

 

6.    I want learn more vocabularies.

I want to improve my vocabulary.

I want learn more vocabulary words.

She wants to enlarge her vocabulary.

enlarge(v)- increase the size, expand, make bigger

 

GOOD VOCAB enhance, improve, develop, expand

 

7.    Mosaic English.

I studied English at Mosaic last year.

 

8.    My English abilities is are much better than before.

My English skills are much better than before.

My spoken/speaking skills in English are much better than before.

spoken/speaking(adj)

 

9.    will listen to English and realize clearly.

I will listen to English and understand/communicate/comprehend clearly.

 

I am confused about this math.

 

10.                       I need to conversation with people.

I need to V conversation with people.

11.                       I need to conversations with people.

I need to have/make conversations with people.

I need to converse with people.

conversation(n)

converse(v)

I need to end this conversation now. ABRUPT

I have to let you go. POLITE WAY OF ENDING A CONVERSATION

 

 

Let’s continue tomorrow.

 

 

12.                       I am a communicate and creative person.

I am a communicative and creative person.

communicate(v) communication(n)

creative(adj)

 

13.                       I want to improve my English as possible as can.

I want to improve my English as soon as I can. TIME

I want to improve my English as soon as possible. TIME

I want to improve my English as much as I can. ABILITY

 

14.                       I need more learning English. XXX

I need to learn more English.

 

15.                       I would like don’t have afraid speaking English.

 

 

 

I would like to have no fear speaking English. noun

I would like to not be afraid of speaking English. adj

He has a fear of dogs.

He is afraid of dogs.

 

I would to have more confidence speaking English. noun

I would to be more confident speaking English. adj

 

She has confidence.

She is confident.

 

That is fair.

fear- here

fair- chair

 

She has happiness in her life.

She is happy.

happiness(noun)

happy(adj)

Word form- noun, adjective, adverb, verb

 

sad

sadness

He has sadness in his heart.

He is sad.

She has a lot of joy in her life. (n)

She is joyful. (adj)

enjoy(v)

joyfully(adv) The kids are singing joyfully.

 

16.                       I would like to talk everyone because I want to excice myself.

I would like to talk to everyone because I want to challenge myself.

I would like to talk to everyone because I want to increase my ability/confidence/skills/abilities.

 

17.                       Normal person.

I am a normal person.

 

 

 

“Interviewing for a Job”

Group discussion-

Get into groups of 4-5 people.

Discuss the warm-up questions and the vocab preview.

 

 

Vocabulary Preview

1.    personnel- people in a company, employees- HR human resources

personal-private

2.    hire- rhymes with ‘fire’ – take on

Amazon is taking on new staff.

3.    resume(v)- begin again, restart

resume(n)-

CV- curriculum vitea – high level jobs

4.    qualifications- bona fides(Latin)-

5.    proficient(adj)-

pro-positive

 

 

 

 

 

Latin phrases in English

e.g- exampli gratis (sp)

i.e.- id est

etc.- et cetera

bona fides

9am- ante meridian

3pm- post meridian

post- after, past

After the hockey game, there will be post-game commentary on TV,

post-doctoral

 

EF23 Class 4

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 9:15

 

Quiz – short, 20m, six sentences

example quiz

Quiz

Write a simple sentence for each word.

1. school

Maris goes to school every day.

2. park

The kids play in the park after lunch.

3. store

The store is closed today.

4. bicycle

5. pet

6. job

 

Test- longer, 45m, short paragraph

What did you do on the weekend?

past tense verbs

 

Exam – 2,3,4 hours long, huge test

 

I have sleep in my eye.

sleep(n)-

She has a sty in her eye.

He has dry eyes. He uses eye drops.

I have red eyes. My eyes are red. My eyes are bloodshot. I have allergies.

High blood pressure is dangerous to your health.

High blood pressure can cause glacoma.

My grandmother had cataracts. Cataracts cover the pupil of the eye.

iris- coloured part of your eye- brown, green, blue, hazel

pupil- centre hole in your eye where the light comes in

 

Some people use coloured contact lenses.

 

eyelashes- little hairs around out eyes, attached to eyelids

eyebrows- hairs above your eyes on the lower part of your forehead

 

Some people life to wear false eyelashes.

It is fashionable to wear false eyelashes.

fashion(n)- style

fashionable(adjective)- stylish

She is a very stylish dresser.

He is a very stylish dresser. He is a dandy-not very common

He is a sharp dresser.

She looks lovely. She looks fabulous.

She looks elegant.

elegant(adj) – simple and beautiful, classy

IDIOM put together- well-dressed for men

He is always put-together.

 

HARD VOCAB heterochromia- two different colour eyes

Huskies are often heterochomatic.

 

ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY

always

usually

often

mostly

sometimes   Sometimes, I sometimes listen to music, sometimes.

occasionally

rarely

never

 

 

either or

neither nor          I don’t like pizza. Me, neither.

 

 

Today’s agenda

·      Finish introductions of classmates

·      Finish revising examples from Friday writing- corrections

·      “Interviewing for a Job” dialogues

·      Daily pronunciation work- minimal pairs and tongue twisters

·      HW 

 

Wednesday

·      Begin sentences-

An overview of the sentence types that we will cover in this course.

·      Begin simple sentences

·      “Interviewing for a Job” dialogues

·      Teach structure of a paragraph

 

Thursday

·      Continue simple sentences

·      Teach structure of a paragraph

·      Modal auxilairies

 

Friday

·      Test#1 -short paragraph on an easy topic, at least 80 words, minimum of five sentences

·      Continue simple sentences

I will explain the structure of the quiz

Choose vocabulary for Quiz#1 on Monday

 

Monday

·      Quiz#1 – simple sentences

 

 

 

ICEBREAKER:

A.       Chat with your partners.

1.       Name

2.       Home

3.       Family

4.       Job

5.       Travel

6.       Hobbies

7.       Future plans

B. Introduce one of your partners to the class. You don’t have to talk about all seven of the topics. Choose some of them.

 

She has a fifteen-month-old baby.

Her baby is fifteen months old.

She has an infant. brand new baby

She is a toddler. baby who can walk a little bit

 

She is good at multitasking. doing many jobs at the same time

 

I would like to introduce my classmate.

I would like to VERB

I would like to go to Surrey.

I would like to eat some lunch.

 

She owns a beauty salon.

beauty salon- salon(French) – haircut and trim, colouring-dye, perm for women- curl or wave

I want to get a trim because I have split ends. My hair looks frizzy.

 

balding- losing hair

I am balding. I am losing my hair.

 

She is a lawyer. She used to be a lawyer in her country. She was a lawyer.

lawyer / liar- pronunciation

lawyer rhymes with ‘boy’ er

liar  rhymes with ‘high’ er-

lie opposite of truth

 

UBC- University of British Columbia

 

used to be(v)- was, past, not now

She used to live in Tehran.

She lived in Tehran.

She used to VERB.

She used to sing.

She used to play soccer.

She used to think that Canada was a strange country. Now, she likes it.

I used to have money, but then I had kids.

 

 

**Continue sentence writing from Friday

 

1.    I like improve my english in this course,

I would like to improve my English in this course.

I want to improve my English in this course.

 

She speaks Cambodian.

 

2.    I like speak,write, readi

I like speaking, writing, and reading.

I like hiking and camping.

I like taking photos.

I like cooking.

I like to shopping. XXX

I like to go shopping.

I like diving.

I like dancing.

I like watching football.

 

3.    I can conversation with classmate.

I can conversation(n) with classmate.

I can have conversations with classmates.

I can talk with classmates.

 

Modal auxilairies- I will teach these later this week.

can

could

may

might

must

should

will

would

shall

can + to speak

Carol can speak Spanish.

The cat can climb a tree very quickly.

Carol can speaking Spanish. XXX

 

 

4.    I like to go to the shopping.

I like to go shopping.

I like to go hiking.

“Interviewing for a Job”

Get into small groups (4-5 people)

-Discuss Warm-Up Questions

-Vocabulary Preview

EF45 Class 3

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 12:00

 

Today’s agenda

·      Introducing one of your partners.

·      Talk about PLOs (Prescribed Learning Outcomes) -oral

·      Begin sentence work

Use examples from Friday writing

·      Pronunciation work/Minimal Pairs

·      HW   Read “Interviewing for a Job” dialogues

 

Tuesday

·      Continue introducing one of your partners.

·      Talk about PLOs (Prescribed Learning Outcomes) -oral

·      Continue sentence work- overview of the three sentence types that we will be learning this term: simple, compound, complex

·      Paper format

 

Wednesday

·      Begin paragraph work

·      Begin simple sentences

 

Thursday

·      Continue paragraph work

·      Continue simple sentences

·       

 

Friday

·      Test#1 – paragraph of at least 150 ww

·      Continue simple sentences

Prepare for Quiz#1 on Monday – simple sentences

Explain the structure of the quiz

Choose vocabulary to review for the quiz

 

dialogue- conversation between two people

In this course, we will working on real-life dialogues.

 

I relaxed with my family on the weekend.

I spent some QT with my family.

IDIOM QT – quality time

I spent some QT with my daughter yesterday.

IDIOM hang out – spend relaxed fun time together

 

I attended a wedding party last night.

My friend married her boyfriend.

She got married to her fiance.

fiance- the man

fiancee- the woman

 

I went to the downtown VPL to study with my friends.

I went to the swimming pool with my friends yesterday.

He jumped off the diving board for the first time.

He dove in headfirst from the highdiving board.

You can do a belly flop.

 

I worked all weekend. I was working all weekend. I was at work all weekend.

 

He overcame jetlag.

We were skiing all day on Saturday.

 

skating – on ice on skates- shoes with blades on the bottom

skiing

snowboarding

 

You can ski and snowboard in the Northshore Mountains: Grouse Mountain, Cypress Mountain, and Mount Seymour.

The best hill close to Vancouver is Whistler-Blackcomb.

Big White

 

 

 

We did this worl last day. -Friday

 

 

FIRST DAY ICEBREAKER:

A.       Chat with your partners.

1.       Name

2.       Home

3.       Family

4.       Job

5.       Travel

6.       Hobbies

7.       Future plans

B. Tomorrow- Introduce one of your partners to the class.

He comes/came/is from Chad.

She was born in China.

He used to be a project manager.

VERB used to – past activity

She used to VERB

She used to live in Burnaby.

He used to play soccer.

We used to go hiking together.

I used to play guitar when I was a kid. I don’t anymore.

 

get used to – become comfortable, familiar, habitualized, adapt,

She got used to living in Canada.

He has to work weekends, but he is not used to it.

Are you used to Canadian-style classrooms?

I will stick with EF5.

IDIOM stick with – not change, stay

She will stick with her job for the next few months.

 

She doesn’t have any time for travel right now.

I don’t have any time for travelling/travel.

She doesn’t have any time to go to the bank today.

The boss doesn’t have any time to talk with you right now.

 

IDIOM make time- find time, defend time, make it a priority

She is very busy, but she always makes time for her children.

He is very busy, but he makes time to go to the gym.

I have to make time to study English.

 

He is eighteen years old.

SPANISH/PORTUGUESE He has eighteen years.

ENGLISH He is 18.

She is 23.

She is twenty three years old.

 

She has two children: two boys.

He has three children: two boys and a girl.

: colon

She is taking two classes: EF4 and Math 11.

He has visited many countries: Spain, Sweden, China, Chad, and Korea.

He has visited many / a lot of countries: Spain, Sweden, China, Chad, Korea, etc.

etc- et cetera- and others

He has visited many / a lot of countries: Spain, Sweden, China, Chad, Korea, ...

… NOT ENGLISH

…… Chinese NOT ENGLISH

 

, etc. ENGLISH

, and so on.

 

We’ll do more tomorrow. There are some shy people in the class, so tomorrow will be your chance to speak up.

 

PLOs – Oral

 

 

 

EF45

You did some sentence writing on Friday for the Questionaire.

I chose some of the sentences for revision.

VOCAB revision(n) – changes, improvements

review(v)- study

revise(v)- to make changes, to make improvements

Abdul is revising his resume.

Sarah is revising her travel plans.

 

Many of these are focussed on verb form and verb tense.

1.    I tooked EF4 last term.

I took EF4 last term.

SIMPLE PRESENT, PAST, AND FUTURE

take   took   will take

run   runned ran

eat   eated ate  will eat

 

2.    I need to learning more English

I need to learn more English.

I need to VERB.

She needs to call her mother.

I need to go get groceries.

I need to improve m English.

 

3.    I want learning more English.

I want to learn more English.

 

4.    I choosing to talk this course, because I wanna to improve speaking.

I am choosing to take this course, because I wanna to improve my speaking.

I choose to take this course because I wanna want to improve my speaking.

I want to take this course.

I want to get into this course.

I want to register in this course.

 

5.    I want you know that I am hard work person for learning.

I want you to know that I am a hardworking person.

hardworking(adj)

I am  hard worker person. XXX

FIXES

I am a hard worker.

I am a hardworking person.

I work hard. work(v) hard(adv)

 

6.    I want learn more vocabularies.

I want to improve my vocabulary.

I want learn more vocabulary words.

She wants to enlarge her vocabulary.

enlarge(v)- increase the size, expand, make bigger

 

GOOD VOCAB enhance, improve, develop, expand

 

7.    Mosaic English.

I studied English at Mosaic last year.

 

8.    My English abilities is are much better than before.

My English skills are much better than before.

My spoken/speaking skills in English are much better than before.

spoken/speaking(adj)

 

9.    will listen to English and realize clearly.

I will listen to English and understand/communicate/comprehend clearly.

 

I am confused about this math.

 

10.                       I need to conversation with people.

I need to V conversation with people.

11.                       I need to conversations with people.

I need to have/make conversations with people.

I need to converse with people.

conversation(n)

converse(v)

I need to end this conversation now. ABRUPT

I have to let you go. POLITW WAY OF ENDING A CONVERSATION

 

Let’s continue tomorrow.

 

 

I am a communicate and creative person.

12.                       I want to improve my English as possible as can.

13.                       I need more learning English.

14.                       I going to shopping and eat food in restaurant.

15.                       I would like don’t have afraid speaking English.

16.                       I go out to eat something.

17.                       And then nice to met new friends.

18.                       I would like to talk everyone because I want to excice myself.

19.                       I would like to walking around the park.

20.                       My teacher said you stayed EF4 for better you.

21.                       Normal person.

22.                       be good at written and gramer

23.                       I look job and improve my englsh and study driving lisen and read some english book.

 

 

EF23 Class 3

 Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 9:15

 

Today’s agenda

·      Continue introductions of classmates

·      Talk about PLOs (Prescribed Learning Outcomes)

·      Begin sentences-

An overview of the sentence types that we will cover in this course.

Use examples from Friday writing- corrections

·      Daily pronunciation work- minimal pairs and tongue twisters

·      HW  Read “Interviewing for a Job” dialogues

 

We will be working on dialogues throughout the course.

dialogue- two people having a conversation

 

I usually give some homework everyday. I don’t give a lot of homework because people are very very busy.

There are unlimited opportunities to learn Engliosh outside of this classroom. You do not need me to be your only source of learning for English.

 

Tuesday

·      Finish introductions of classmates

·      Continue to talk about PLOs (Prescribed Learning Outcomes)

·      Begin simple sentences

·      “Interviewing for a Job” dialogues

·      Daily pronunciation work- minimal pairs and tongue twisters

·      HW 

 

Wednesday

·      Continue simple sentences

·      “Interviewing for a Job” dialogues

 

 

 

 

ICEBREAKER:

A.       Chat with your partners.

1.       Name

2.       Home

3.       Family

4.       Job

5.       Travel

6.       Hobbies

7.       Future plans

B. Introduce one of your partners to the class. You don’t have to talk about all seven of the topics. Choose some of them.

 

 

She returned to Canada via Hong Kong.

She came to Canada by herself.

Her future plan is to have a better life in Canada.

She came to Canada seven months ago.

Her hobbies are running and watching movies.

She came to Canada in 2021.

She lives close to the school.

 

We’ll do more on Monday.

 

She came to Canada one years ago.

She works with the Red Cross in countries that are at war.

IDIOM at war- conflict between two countries or groups or people

 

Russia is at war with Ukraine.

Sarah is at war with her sister.  They argue all the time about toys. They fight a lot.

 

VOCAB squabble – a small argument

The kids squabbled about the Lego.

Parents always squabble with their kids about eating their vegetables.

 

He has been in Canada for around/about/approximately/more or less 10 months.

 

He has been in Canada for close to 10 months.

He has been in Canada for almost 10 months. 9+months

My son is almost seven years old.

Michelle’s daugher around nine years old. 8-10

 

He has travelled in the UK and the US.

UK- United Kingdom

US- The United States, ‘the States”, ‘the US’

I am going to visit my uncle in the States.

America –

I am going to visit America.  sounds unusual

 

I would like to go to Seattle for the weekend.

I would like to go shopping in Seattle this weekend.

I will go to Seattle.

 

FRIENDLY ADVICE:

Dress nicely.

Be polite.

Have your documents ready.

 

He went came/immigrated to Vancouver eight months ago.

He arrived/landed in Vancouver eight months ago.

landed- immigration status- Permanent Resident, Landed Immigrant(old term)

 

His hobbies are fishing and crypto.

hobby- activity for freetime

crypto- online money, virtual currency

currency- all forms of money- cash, bitcoin, crypto, precious metals, gems, shares

assets- things that you own that have financial value

 

VR- virtual reality         She plays VR computer games.

VR goggles, headset

Shira wears swimming goggles in the pool.

Jun wears a welding mask.

 

She comes/came/is from Iraq.

NEW VOCAB She hails from Iraq. Not as common

 

We’ll do some introductions more tomorrow. Your big chance will be tomorrow. Be brave. Step up. Take the opportunity.

SAYING/IDIOM You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make the horse drink.

 

PLOSs

revise- fix, improve, change. develop

 

 

 

EF23

On Friday,  you did some writing for the “Student Questionaire”

I picked some sentence that you wrote that could use some revision.

revise(v) revision(n)

 

1.    My last English is EF2.

My last English class was EF2. simple past verb tense

 

*We will learn about simple present, simple past, and simple future starting this week.

 

2.    I have not any questions.

I don’t have any questions.

I don’t have any children.

I don’t have any time right now.

I don’t have any pets.

 

3.    I want learning English because I can speak with another people.

I want to ABC

I want to learn English because I can speak with other people.

another person

other people

more people

one more person

We have room for one more person in the car.

 

4.    I like to travel and see them place and see them native.

I like to travel and see some/many/different places and see the nature/culture/new food/natural environment/scenery.

BC has beautiful scenery.

 

5.    I like hang on my friend.

I like to hang out with my friend.

PHRASAL hang out with- spend time in a relaxed way together

Yesterday, I hung out with my daughter at home.

spending time together

IDIOM QT- quality time, relaxed, fun

We were spending some QT.

She was hanging out with her friends at the mall yesterday.

 

 

6.    My first English course EF1. I am start on February.

My first English course was EF1. I started in February.

SIMPLE PRESENT start

SIMPLE PAST started

SIMPLE FUTURE will start

 

7.    my last course speaking and listening.

My last course was Speaking and Listening 1/2.

 

8.    outside of school I like to go library

Outside of school, I like to go to the library.

 

9.    I think learning online not good for me.

I think that learning online is not good for me.

 

10.                       I want improve my English.

I want to improve my English.

 

11.                       I wanna learn English very well.

I want to learn English very well.

wanna- not real English- want to

gonna- not real English- going to

 

12.                       I would like spend time with my kids.

I would like to spend time with my kids.

I would like to VERB.

I would like to watch TV.

I would like to go for a run.

I would like to go to the gym

I would like to go shopping.

I would like to go for a hike.

I would like to make a nice sandwich for lunch.

I would like to listen to the radio.

I would like to see my friends.

I would like to play soccer/football tomorrow night.

Abdul would like to open a business next year.

I would like to come to the school in the morning.

 

13.                       My last English course was in Afghanistan in 2020 year.

My last English course was in Afghanistan in 2020.

 

14.                       When I talk I very nervous.

When I talk, I am/feel very nervous.

I am/feel very nervous when I talk.

I feel very nervous when I drive my car. I am a nervous driver.

She is a nervous mother. He is a nervous student.

Maris is a nervous person. She is not relaxed. She is not a chill person.

IDIOM chill- relaxed, relax

She was chilling in the park yesterday.

He likes to chill in front of the TV.

There is a park in Vancouver called Dude Chilling Park.

 

 

FINISH TOMORROW

 

15.                       I like improve my english in this course,

16.                       I like speak,write, readi

17.                       It’s useful help me.

18.                       I can conversation with classmate.

19.                       I like to go to the shopping.