We will get started
at 9:15
Today’s agenda
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Continue verb tense – present progressive
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Talk about optional replacement quiz or test
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Continue working on “Presentations”
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“Making a Dinner Reservation” dialogues
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Revisit modals/modal auxilairies
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“100 Most Used Adjectives Adverbs and
Prepositions”
Wednesday
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Continue working on “Presentations”
Thursday
group submit writing
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“Making a Dinner Reservation” dialogues
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“Phrasal verbs 1&2”
Thursday
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Presentations- Friday group submit writing
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first group present
Friday
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Presentations- Monday group submit writing
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second group present
Monday
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Presentations- third group present
Tuesday
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Review of our course work
Wednesday, June 26th
Final day
Marks day
I will not teach on
the final day. I have to finish all of your marks, report cards, etc.
On the final day, I
can meet with each person to discuss your progress and final marks.
Continue verb tense – present progressive
VERN TENSES:
-simple present
-simple past
-simple future
-present progressive – 1.happening right now 2.happening
these days
1.happening right now
You are sitting in a seat at SHEC.
At the moment/Right now, Butter is probably sleeping on my
bed.
2.happening these days
He is taking Math 10 at SHEC this
quarter.
He is working at a
warehouse these days/this year.
AUX + ‘ing’ verb
am/is/are + ‘ing’ verb
The baby is crying.
She is taking a nap.
I am listening to the
radio.
Let’s write some sentences from our own imagination using
present progressive verb tense.
My car is selling these days. XXX
I am selling my car
now.
My sister is walking in
the park. right now, at the moment
She is packaging the
stuff.
He is packing his suitcase.
He is packing a lunch.
The sun is rising. Dawn
is breaking.
The sun is setting. The
sun is going down. The stars are coming out.
They are not going
here.
I am not studying French
this year.
He is not working now.
It is not raining
today.
Are you going to the party?
Are you working today?
Are you eating enough food? Are you drinking enough water?
Are you stretching every day?
Are you kidding? Are you joking with me? Are you
being serious right now?
I am just kidding around. I am making a joke.
I am trying to be funny/serious/nice.
Are you using drugs/narcotics?
Are you cooking dinner for tonight? Are you making dinner
tonight?
Are you using your bicycle these day?
Are you having a picninc in the park?
Is your English getting better?
Are you feeling more confident with your English?
confident(adj) – believe in yourself, feel strong, feel able,
feel like you do something
confidence(n)
He is confident.
She has confidence.
Are you enjoying the movie?
Yes, I am enjoying it.
**
Optional replacement quiz or test **
A few people have asked me about rewriting
quizzes or tests. Maybe they had a bad quiz or missed a test.
In my classes, I offer an optional replacement
quiz or test for anyone who would like to do one.
Next week, you will have an opportunity to
replace one of the quizzes or tests that you wrote.
Again, this is optional. You don’t have to do
it if you don’t want to.
So far we have done three quizzes:
Quiz#1 simple sentences X/6
Quiz#2 compound sent, SOBA X/6
Quiz#3 complex sent- adv cl X/6
You have your marks for those.
You may have one quiz that you were not
satisfied with.
One is one. Not two, not three. 1=1
You choose which one you want to replace and
let me know by email.
You will do the replacement quiz during
regular class time, as usual. It will be Monday, June 24th. We will do it at
the end of the class.
The replacement quiz will be a new quiz. The
replacement quiz will be a mix of all sentence styles.
e.g. If you want to replace your Quiz #3, the
adverb clause quiz, the replacement quiz will not just be on adverb clauses; it
will be on all of the sentence styles.The replacement quiz will be six
sentences, as usual- mix of simple, compound, complex-adv cl. e.g. 1 simple, 2
compound, 3 complex OR 2 simple, 2 compound,
2 complex.
Your old mark will be replaced with the new
mark. It will not be the higher of the two marks.
EXAMPLE SCENARIO #1
Q1 4/6
Q2 0/6 4/6
Q3 6/6
You can choose to replace Q2.
Replacement quiz- 4/6
*Great outcome.* The average from your
quizzes goes up.
EXAMPLE SCENARIO #2
Q1 4/6 3/6
Q2 4.5/6
Q3 4.5/6
You choose to replace Q1.
Replacement quiz 3/6
*Less-than-ideal outcome* The average for
your quizzes goes down.
Think carefully about if you would like to
replace one of your quiz marks.
MY FREE ADVICE:
If you have pretty good marks, just leave
them. Don’t bother with the optional replacement quiz.
On the other hand, if you have a really low
mark somewhere, it would be worth doing the replacement quiz.
REMINDER: Quizzes are worth about 30% of your
final mark.
ACTION:
What you can do:
Email me by Thursday at 7PM which quiz test you
would like to replace, if you want to replace one.
Send me an email.
Make sure you use a proper Subject line in
your email:
“Name, Class, Replacement quiz/test.”
“Hi Al,
I want to replace Quiz#2.
OR
I want to replace Test#1.
Thanks,
Betty”
I will respond.
“Ok. Thanks.
Al”
I
will not accept late emails. Thursday at 7pm is the deadline to let me know if
you want to replace a quiz or test.
EF456
‘in order to’ I must study English in order to improve
my language skills.
REMINDER:
Pass in your writing at the beginning of class the day
before you signed up to do your presentation.
For the people doing their presentation on Thursday, please
pass in in your writing at the beginning of class tomorrow.
The writing will be several paragraphs long.
If you’re doing your presentation on Friday, pass the paragraphs
in first thing Thursday.
If you’re doing your presentation on Monday, pass the paragraphs
in first thing Friday.
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