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.