EF23 Class 22

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 9:15

 

Today’s agenda

·      Return Test2- paragraph

Rewrite for a bonus point

·      Begin simple future verb tense

·      New dialogue “Asking for Directions”

·      “100 Most Used Nouns and Verbs”

 

Tuesday;

·      Continue simple future verb tense

·      New dialogue “Asking for Directions”

·      100 Most Used Nouns and Verbs”

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Speaking practice:

You can make opportunities to speak in English in your daily life.

1.    In this class

2.    Make new friends – sports team, club, community centre, church, volunteering

3.    Family members who are English speakers

 

Good advice: Don’t connect only with people who speak your mother language.

 

How was your English two years ago?

 

Build vocabulary!

 

 

Paragraph

-at least 80 words

-doublespace

-write inside the margins

-write in pen

-one block of writing

-full name and class in top right corner

-all devices and notes away

 

Topic sentence

3-4,5 supporting sentences

Concluding sentence

 

 

Test#2

Write a paragraph of at least 80 words

Doublepace

Devices away

Choose one topic

1.What are some ways your country is different than Canada?

2.What was your favourite hobby when you were a kid?

 

Rewrite for a bonus point. You need your “Correction Codes”.

 

EXAMPLE SENTENCES:

We have a lot of problem. # problems – countable noun ‘s’

We have a lot of money.– non-countable noun ‘s’

 

 

 

 

 

 

non countable nouns

water She drink a lot of waters water.

money He doesn’t have much moneys money.

time We have lots of times time to walk around the city.

vocabulary I walk to learn more vocabularies vocabulary.

                     I walk to learn more vocabulary words.

 

My favourite hobbies were play playing with my friends and take taking care of my dog. wf- word form

My favourite hobby is cycling.

 

vt- verb tense simple past

I live lived with my family.

I played with my friends. We went swimming. We rode our bicycles.

 

simple present- simple past- simple future (today)

 

Iran is a dry country.

 

There are many different between my home country and Canada. wf #

different (adj) difference(n)

There are many differences between my home country and Canada.

 

 

 

“Asking for Directions”

Let’s get into groups of 4-5 people.

We can talk about the Warm-Up Questions and the Vocabulary Preview.

 

A.Warm-Up Questions

1.stadium- Roger’s Arena

Where is ScienceWorld?

What direction is Cambie Station?

How can I get to Chinatown?

East Hastings is a depressing sad place.

polite          Sir- man

          Ma’am- woman

Excuse me, Sir. Can you tell me which way Fell Street is?

It’s just over there. It is two blocks to the west.

It is right in front of you.

Where is the bathroom?

SHEC- Where is the Portable?

portable – something that can be moved

 

A trailer has wheels.

You can sleep in a camping trailer.

 

2. He got lost in Stanley Park for 2 ½ hours.

I get lost all the time. I have no sense of direction when I am driving.

For two hours, I was trying to find my direction.

You can laugh about it now. It wasn’t funny at the time.