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.