EF45 Class 9

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 12:00

We will finish today at 1:50. I am chairing a teacher’s meeting at 2.

 

chair(n)

business or professional meeting – chair- person who runs a meeting

chairman chair

She is the chair of the meeting.

chair(v) to run a meeting and keep it on track

He will chair the meeting today.

-follow the agenda

-give speakers the floor- whoever is talking

host- for a party

-adjourn- end the meeting

Meeting often follow Roberts’ Rules of Order

Strata meetings usually follow Roberts’ Rules of Order.

 

Today’s agenda

·      Quiz#1-simple sentences

·      “Correction Codes”

·      Return Test#1

Talk about format

Talk about sentences

Optional rewite for bonus point

·      This week’s dialogue “Going to a Dental Specialist”

·      Pronunciation work/Minimal Pairs

 

Wednesday

·      Begin compound sentences

·      Begin to review verb tenses and modals

·      This week’s dialogue “Going to a Dental Specialist”

 

Thursday

·      Continue compound sentences

·      This week’s dialogue “Going to a Dental Specialist”

 

Quiz#1

Write a simple sentence for each.

Submit by 12:35.

1.    SV                salary

2.    SSV              hire            

3.    SVV             skill             

4.    SV                position

5.    Question    experience

6.    Command sell

 

 

 

“Correction Codes”

-art- a an the

-awk

-cap I, Tuesday, November, Canada, Jun, Starbucks, VCC, the first letter in  sentence, caps after a period

“My friend and I play soccer. We go to Central Park.”

IMPERATIVE- command “Sell now!”

! exclamation point

 

-cs  It is a nice day, let’s go to the beach. comma is not strong enough

FIX

It is a nice day. Let’s go to the beach.

It is a nice day, so let’s go to the beach.

It is a nice day; let’s go to the beach.

-frag- I am happy. Because it is sunny today. frag

FIX

I am happy because it is sunny today.

Because it is sunny today, I am happy.

 

I am happy. It is sunny today.

It is sunny today, so I am happy.

It is sunny today, I am happy. CS

 

-prep – no grammar rules, all authentic usage, all idiomatic

at in on for to under over between

PHRASAL VERBS -  verb + prep

talk to

talk with

talk for “I had to talk/speak for my son at the hospital.”

talk about, talk about somebody behind their back-gossip

 

-punc- comma, period.

-RO It is sunny today I am happy. no punc between two sentences

It is sunny today, I am happy. CS

It is sunny today, so I am happy. COMPOUND SENT

 

RW- Try it a different way.

 

-sp

-agr  He likes dogs.

-vt  verb tense We will start to go over verb tenses soon.

-vf  I am be going to school. vf

-wf noun, adj, adv, verb  happiness, happy, happily

“Canada is a freedom country.” wf

 

-wo  Spanish/Farsi

-ww

-#   I have three person people in my family. She has two cats.

 

 

Paragraph Format

-Write in pen.

-Doublespace

-Paper orientation

-Full name and class in top right corner

-Write between the margins.

 

Optional rewrite for an extra point.

Correct and rewrite your paragraph on another piece of paper.

Pass it in today or at the beginning of class tomorrow.

I’ll read it and give you an extra point.

 

For the people who got low marks, let’s get to work. We have seven to weeks to improve as much as we can.

 

CORRECTIONS

He is quickly sleeping at home.

He goes to sleep quickly.

He sleeps quickly. XXX

go to sleep

I sleep at 10pm. XXX I go to sleep/bed at 10 pm.

 

 

 

 

Test#1

Use lined ruled paper

Write in pen

Doublespace

 

 

Full name and class in top right corner

Phones and devices put away.

 

Write a paragraph of at least 150 words:

What do you like to do for fun?