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