EF45 Class 5

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 12:00

 

Today’s agenda

·      “Interviewing for a Job”

Finish vocab

Warm-up questions

Dialogues

·      Continue sentence work- overview of the three sentence types that we will be learning this term: simple, compound, complex

·      Pronunciation work/Minimal Pairs

 

Thursday

·      Continue dialogues

·      Begin paragraph work

·      Continue overview of sentences

·      Begin simple sentences

 

Friday

·      Continue paragraph work

·      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

 

“Interviewing for a Job”

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

6.    She got a new position in the company. job-

hired for a position, job

7.    As a parent, I am responsible for taking care of my children.

8.    supervise(v)

super- high level

vise- vision, see

oversee(v)  The manager oversees the work. checking, making sure everything is ok,

9.    salary- money per year

Canada – annual salary

China, Japan, Iran- monthly salary

wage- money per hour

salary, wage- total- income, annual income

mimimum wage- BC $16.75/hr

$17.40/hr as of June 1st

 

$17.40 X 40hr= $969 per week before tax

before tax= gross pay

after tax- net pay, what is in your pocket

10.                       benefits- health benefits, medications, dental, paid holiday, pension

Federal $ for young children- UCCB- child benefit

pension – money saved for your retirement

CPP- Canada Pension Plan

OAS- Old Age Supplement- low income seniors

11.contact- I’m going to contact the manager.

eye contact-

contact(person)- My uncle was my contact in Vancouver.

I showed up in Vancouver with no contacts. I didn’t know anybody.

 

conflict?

12.                       going rate- The going rate for furnace repair is $298 per hour.

13.                       When are you available? What is your availability?

available(adj)   availability(noun)

Give me your availability?

14.                       reference(n)- a persn who knows you, can say good things about you

a reference letter

Landlords often request a reference letter from a previous landlord.

 

 

cover letter- resume You write a cover letter to go with your resume.

WorkBC https://www.workbc.ca/ – provides resources for writing effective cover letters, resumes, interviewing, etc.

 

Let’s try these dialogues.

1.    Body language.

2.    Speak clearly and audibly (loud enough).

3.    Eye contact.

 

 

 

correspondence(noun)- writing back and forth to somebody

correspond(v) – to write back and forth to somebody

 

May corresponded with her friends in Japan.

 

handle(v) – take of something

A secretary handles the correspondence with customers.

 

I have to go to work, go to school, raise kids, and take care of a house. It’s a lot to handle. I have a lot on my plate.

 

apostrophe ‘  - shows possession, used for contractions

 

-contraction        She is = She’s

                               I will = I’ll

 

-possession- shows ownership

The boy’s bicycle is red. the boy owns the bicycle

I’ve had over ten years’ experience.  the experience belongs to the years

I’ve had one year’s experience.  the experience belongs to the years

 

dog’s – one dog   I found the dog’s toy.

dogs’- many dogs   I found the dogs’ toys.

 

good interpersonal skills- good with people

inter- between  international

 

EI- employment insurance  - If you get laid off, you can get EI.

https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/ei.html

 

Maternity leave

maternity – motherhood

maternity ward – the area of a hospital having to do with mothers and babies

paternity- fatherhood- patriotic -love your country

masculine/feminine

 

Traditionally, women took their husbands’ names when they got married. These days, women can choose to keep their name.

 

Mama Africa

 

My name is Sepideh. I go by Seppy. My friend’s call me Seppy.

 

You can change your name legally.

 

Farsi- true/correct

 

Barack Obama “Barry”

 

 

 

We’ll do some dialogues tomorrow.

 

 

Overview of Sentence Types

 

You are probably already experienced with English.

We will learn the fundamental sentences styles that we use everyday. If this is new to you, let’s learn a lot about sentences. Even if you already know about them, I still have some new things to teach you.

 

Full review of the three sentence types: very important, very useful, very practical, everyday usage

We study sentences so that we can use them in your real life- school, work, social life, business, on the street.

IRL- in real life

 

Quick overview of sentence types

1.SIMPLE

2.COMPOUND

3.COMPLEX

4. COMPOUND-COMPLEX (mix of 2 and 3)

 

99.9999% of the time, these three sentence types will allow to write anything you want.

If you want to write and speak well in English, this is what you want to do.

 

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Side Note: I have a small business where I do editing for university students, mostly nurses and nursing students. What I do is read their essays and papers and then edit their writing. I use almost exclusively simple, compound, and complex sentences.

 

ANOTHER SIDE NOTE: Every year on Tuesday nights (5-6pm) from November-January, I do an Advanced Sentence Structure Tutorial on Zoom. This is aimed at upper-level students who want to polish their sentence writing. Feel free to join my Zoom tutorial.

No homework. No assignments. No mark.

Check my blog in mid-October for the Zoom link.

 

 

QUICK PREVIEW- I will go into detail in ensuing classes.

 

THESE ARE THE SENTENCE TYPES:

 

1.    SIMPLE SENTENCE – one main clause, one independent clause

Clause – group of words with a subject and a verb (SV)

 

one main clause, one independent clause = SV,

a complete idea, one idea, a sentence by itself

independent- self-contained

clause = a group of verbs with a subject and a verb

Subject+Verb, S+V

 

SIMPLE SENTENCE S=subject   V=verb

S+V “It is sunny.” It is sunny.

one underline for subject

two underlines for verb

 

SV “It is partially sunny.” It is partially sunny.  rainy- adjective

SV “Today is cold.” Today is cold.

SV “The dog likes apples.”

partial(adj) part(n)

 

IMPORTANT:      Don’t forget a capital letter at the beginning. Don’t forget a period at the end.

 

 

 

 

Different styles of simple sentence:

-SV

The sky is blue.

 

-SSV subject subject verb

You and I are talking on the phone.

 

-SVV “The dog is sleeping and is snoring.”

 

-SVVV (probably the maximum)

The kids are running, yelling, and eating.

 

-SSSV (probably the maximum)

 

-SSVV

The old man and his granddaughter go to the park and play.

 

Basic structures: SV   SSV   SVV   SSVV

 

Another style of simple sentence:

-Imperative, command sentence – tell somebody to do something

“Come in.” “Watch out.” “Sit down.” “Open the window, please.”

no subject “You come in.” implied subject, don’t say ‘you’

 

“(You) Come in, please.” Everybody understands that ‘you’ is the subject.

make it sound polite – please

IDIOM the magic word. What’s the magic word?

 

 

 

My way of using commas with ‘please’ (fairly common):

Come in, please. comma

Please come in. no comma

 

Please wash the dishes.

Please, wash the dishes. SOUNDS IRRITATED, ANGRY

 

Wash the dishes, please. WITH COMMA – sounds good

 

Another style of simple sentence:

-interrogative sentence – question, interrogate (ask questions)

“What are you doing?”

“What time is it?”

“Where did you park the car?” SV?

 

REVIEW OF SIMPLE SENTENCES:

SV   SSV   SVV   SSVV   Imperative   Interrogative