English Foundations 2 3 Class 1

 Good morning, everyone.

 

This is the Quarter 4 (Q4) Period 1 (P1) (9:15-11:30) class for these courses:

 

·      English Foundations 2

·      English Foundations 3

 

We will get started at 9:15

 

Everything that you see on the screen, I will put on my blog every day.

You can find my school blog here: haleyshec.blogspot.com

 

Is everybody in the right class?

I will take attendance in a few minutes.

 

 

Today’s agenda

 

agenda- the things that we are going to talk about

business word- business meetings always have agendas

 

·      Welcome

·      Wifi

·      Parking

·      Communication - email

·      Covid protocols

·      Dates, times for our class

·      Course overview- handout

·      IF TIME Small group chatting- icebreaker

·      IF TIME Student Questionaire

·      Minimal Pair of the Day

 

 REMINDER: Everything that goes on this screen will be on my blog after class.

haleyshec.blogspot.com

 

 

My name is Allan Haley

Please call me Allan. Calling me by my first name is fine.

Email: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

 

I sent you an email yesterday. Did you get my email?

If you got my email, that means that we can communicate by email.

If you did not get my email, that means that there is a problem with the email. If you did not get my email, please tell me so we can fix it.

 

 

REMINDER: Class blog: haleyshec.blogspot.com

Everything that goes on the screen, I will post on my blog.

I will talk more about the blog later.

 

 

*** IMPORTANT ***

*** Class Blog ***

Everything that goes on this screen, I will put up on our class blog.

CLASS BLOG: haleyshec.blogspot.com

It’s on the course handout.

 

You do not have to make notes as we go; neverthless, making notes during class is an excellent way to improve retention.

 

 VOCAB retention(noun) – retain, remember (verb)

 Making notes in a class helps you to retain information.

 

NEW WORD blog – weblog- keep a written record on the internet, online diary, publish your thoughts-

Some people are bloggers.

 

the web- worldwide web- www, internet

log- written record

-nurse in a hospital, truck driver- keep a log, record events as they occur

 

I will update my blog every day after class. You can check it and review what we did in class.

Reviewing material is the best way to help remember new information.

 

You can check the blog as much as you like. There is no sign-in, no password. It’s all public and accessible.

 

You can use it this quarter. You can keep using it after you finish this course, until the end of time.

 

I am planning to keep my blog up forever.

Our blog is a tremendous resource that you can use.

 

My class blog goes back 11 years.

 

My blog is searchable. You can search for something specific that you are looking for.

 

The search bar is in the upper lefthand corner of the main blog screen. Search for whatever you want to learn more about. The search bar might not work on your phone.

 

 

 

 

***ACTION***

Go to the blog now. Make sure you can open it.

haleyshec.blogspot.com

 

Let me know if you are having trouble opening my blog.

Any trouble getting in? We’ll figure it out.

 

If yes? Good!

If no? Let me know.

 

**Wifi*

We have school wifi for students.

Wifi: VSB-Commons

Wifi password: AeQACYUf

 

 

**Parking**

Scan the QR code on the orange piece of paper.

Put it your licence plate.

Put it in your first name and last name.

 

English

first name – given name

last name- family name, surname

Chinese and Vietnamese is opposite.

Ling Yan- English

 

Yan Ling – Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean

 

Source of confusion- order of names

 

You will be able to park in the SHEC parking lot until August, 2024.

SHEC- South Hill Education Centre

 

**Daily Agenda***

Every day I will post an ‘agenda’

‘agenda’- used for meetings, school, business or government

agenda- list of items to talk about, schedule for the meeting or class

helps to keep the meeting or class on track, organized

lets everyone know what to expect, what is coming

 

IDIOM stay on track – stay organized

The little boy finds it hard to stay on track with his homework.

 

**Emails***

I sent an email to you yesterday. If you received that email from me, than that means we can communicate via/by email. If you did not receive an email from me, that means I do not have your email in the computer system. We will have to fix that.

 

VOCAB via- by She gets to school via the bus.

He goes to work via/by car.

via – the way that you go

Hossein came to Canada from Iran via Ukraine.

She became a college instructor via nursing.

Maria flew to Halifax via Toronto.

You can fly directly to Tokyo from Vancouver.

You fly to Ethiopia via Europe.

She flew to Vancouver from Tehran via Istanbul and Montreal.

 

VERBS – fly- simple present   The bird flies around the trees.

flew- simple past   The bird flew into her house.

will fly – simple future The birds will fly south in winter.

 

prepositions- to from via

 

**This will all go on the blog.**

 

Did you get my email?

YES- Great!

NO- Check your Junk folder. If I have the wrong email for you, you can change your email address through the office.

 

**Attendance

 

***Ten-minute break***

 

I asked you to respond to ahaley@vsb.bc.ca with your full name and the class you are in the subject line of your email. Many of you responded to the email as I requested.

 

I responded “Thank you, Allan.”

 

If you got my response email, everything is ok.

 

Thank you for that. I want email communciation to be seamless between us.

 

VOCAB

IDIOM seamless- smooth, no problems , confusion

seam – where two pieces of cloth are sewed, joined, rough area, bumpy

seamless- not rough, smooth, easy

 

Registering for this class was seamless. adjective

Taking the Skytrain using a credit card is seamless.

Raising teenagers is rarely seamless.

 

***IMPORTANT***

 

When you send an email to me, please put your full name and class that you are in the subject line of the email.

Then I will know who you are and what class you are in.

 

 

 

***Covid protocols***

VOCAB protocol- accepted ways to act

Use sanitizer.

Two bottles of sanitizer at the front

Wash your hands many times a day.

Use moisturizer/hand lotion.

Feel free to wear a mask if you want.

We lose the facial expressions. We lose the lip reading.

Talking on the phone is challenging.

VOCAB challenging

EUPHEMISM – a word that we use instead of the less polite word

challenging- difficult, hard

 

 

*** Course dates and times***

M-F 9:15-11:30

Thursday, April 25th- Wednesday, June 26^th, 2024

We will have summer school. You can register is you want.

Summer school is five weeks- July and the first week of August.

School will begin again in September right after Labour Day.

 

Holidays

NO SCHOOL Monday, May 20th - Victoria Day

 

 

**We will continue with the course outline tomorrow.**

 

 Small group chatting

-chat- casual talking

Last 30 minutes- small group chatting

 

FIRST DAY ICEBREAKER:

 

Get into groups of 4-5 people. Choose some people who you don’t know yet. Ideally choose people who do not speak your mother language.

 

A.       Chat with your partners.

1.       Name

2.       Home

3.       Family

4.       Job

5.       Travel

6.       Hobbies

7.       Future plans