EF45 Class 27

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 12:00

 

Today’s agenda

·      Hyphenated adjectives

·      “Top 100 Most Used Nouns and Verbs in English”

Go over some each day

·      Scenarios “Socializing”

 

Tuesday

·      Talk about causative verbs

·      Begin noun clauses

·      Continue scenarios “Socializing”

·      “Top 100 Most Used Nouns and Verbs in English”

 

Wednesday

·      Test4- paragraph

·      Begin descriptive writing

·      Continue noun clauses

 

Thursday

·      Talk about registration process, how to register

·      Midterm recommendations (first half of the class in alphabetical order)

 

Friday

·      Talk about registration process, how to register

·      Midterm recommendations (second half of the class in alphabetical order)

·      Listening fun exercise- Listen to a song and listen for lyrics.

 

Monday, June 10th

·      First day for early registration for summer term.

Delara Persian restaurant - 2272 W 4th Ave, Vancouver, BC

 

multi-lingual (adj)- 2-3+ languages

I am monolingual. 1 language

He is bilingual. 2 langauges, bicycle

She is trilingual. 3 languages

He is a polyglot. ployplot(n) – a person who speaks many languages (3+)

 

pickleball

paintball

 

Lonsdale Quay Market (key)

We took the Seabus to Lonsdale Quay.

 

You had a successful job interview.

 

knitting

crochet

needlepoint

 

 

 

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NOUNS THAT FUNCTIONS AS ADJECTIVES

She is taking a good class. adjective

She is taking an English class. noun-functions like an adjective

You have your school books. noun-functions like an adjective

 

red pen- adjective

plastic pen- noun-functions like a adjective

 

 

 

Order of Adjectives

Opinion   Size   Age   Shape   Colour   Origin   Material   Purpose

This is a beautiful blue Japanese tea cup.

She lives in a huge old house.

I had a delicious cup of hot Ethiopian coffee this morning.

 

Most people do not errors with order of adjectives at this level.

You learned it and forgot it.

 

hyphenated descriptive words (nouns or adjectives)

This is an English class.

This is a nine-week class.  – hyphen  no ‘s’

‘nine-week’ is describing ‘class’

 

ALTERNATE

This class is nine weeks.

 

My son is 17 years old.

I have a 17-year-old son. -, no ‘s’

 

I have a 25-year-old daughter. My daughter is 25 years old.

I have a 17-year-old son. My son is 17 years old.

 

 

I have two older sisters. They are 35 and 40 years old.

I have a 35 and a 40-year-old sister.

I have two sisters. One is 35, and the other one is 40 years old.

 

hyphen – joining punctuation between two closely related words

 

state-

status- My status in Canada is PR.

 

This is a water bottle. n-like an adj

This is a 500-ml water bottle. n-like an adj

ml- milliliter, ‘mil’

 

She plays in a four-piece band.

This is a hundred-year-old building.

My grandfather is a 103-year-old man.

He is a 176-cm-tall man.

The building has three floors. It is a three-floor building.

The new Oakridge development is a five-billion-dollar project. adj

 

CHOICE You worked a ten-hour shift. You worked ten hours.

I took a six-hour flight to Toronto.

We took a two-week vacation to Hawai’i.

I want to take a nine-month diploma at VCC.

Let’s take our ten-minute break. Shall we?

She will do a three-hour exam next week.

 

time, distance, amount, age – hyphenated descriptors

 

He ran a 20-mile race.

She had a three-hour video chat with her BFF.

He has a ten-hour layover in Frankfurt on his way to Tehran.

 

Try it today!

 

I need to buy a two-pound chicken.

She raises four-legged chickens at her farm.

How do they taste?

I don’t know. I can’t catch them.

 

 

 

 

“Top 100 Most Used Nouns and Verbs in English”

How many words do you know?

How many do you kind-of know?

How many are new to you?

22. case(n)- container, situation

suitcase, glasses-case, pencil case, briefcase, guitar case

suitcase- luggage, for travel

briefcase- for work

brief- a piece of paper with information

In my case, I have to…

In this case, we must….

This is an emergency case.

50. issue- problem, challenge

fifteen

fifty

16

60

14

40

13

30

17

70

She has an issue with her final mark. She wants to confer with the teacher.

confer(v)- conference(n)  discuss, talk about

I am having issues with the amount of homework.

99. force(n) – You must use some force to open the window.

force(v) You can force the door open.

 

 

 

Scenarios “Socializing”