EF45 Class 29

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 12:00

 

Today’s agenda

·      Talk about midterm recommendations

·      Revisit causative verbs, practice

·      Continue scenarios “Socializing”

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

·      Test#3- paragraph on an easy topic (last 55m)

 

Thursday

·      Talk about registration process, how to register

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

Your midterm rec will be based on quzzes, tests, and spoken.

·      Begin noun clauses

 

Friday

·      Talk about registration process, how to register

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

Your midterm rec will be based on quzzes, tests, and spoken.

·      Continue noun clauses

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

 

Monday, June 10th

·      First day for early registration for summer term.

·      Begin short story

·      Continue noun clauses

 

 

 

Midterm Recommendations- this week

We are past the halfway point in the term. We have only three weeks left.

 

The midterm recommendation is a snapshot or picture of how you are doing at this moment, based on your average so far.

 

Registration for summer courses will begin Monday, June 10th. You will be able to register via the South Hill website as usual. You will be emailed a link to follow in order to register.

I will show the class how to register. I will demonstrate what to do.

 

In order to register, you need a recommendation from your teacher, me. On Thursday and Friday this week, I will give you a midterm recommendation for which English class you should register for in summer or September. If you are not going to take a class in summer, you can use the midterm rec to register for September.

 

On Thursday and Friday, we will have a short chat at my desk. We will talk about how things are going so far in this course and what your next course should/could be. I will put your recommendation into a spreadsheet for the advisors.

By ‘so far’, I mean we have finished six of nine weeks. “So far’ means ‘up to now’.

 

If you want a copy of my comments, email me when we meet, and I will email you the comments when we finish chatting. Alternatively, you can take a picture of the comments on your phone.

 

The interim recommendation will be based on the quizzes and tests you have done so far this term. Also, I will give you a spoken mark out of 10 based on how much speaking you do in class. Plus there are a few points for rewrites.

 

The minimum average for early registration is 65%.

The final pass mark at the end of course is 50%.

If you are between 50-64%, we can talk again next week.

 

New BC Ministry of Education marking categories:

Emerging – first steps, beginning, not ready to move up

Developing- partial understanding, getting better

Proficient- have skills and abilities

Exceeding- sophisticated understanding and ability

 

REMINDER:

Tests are worth double what quizzes are worth.

Test  X/6 = X/12

Quiz  X/6 = X/6

RW Bonus 1 pt each

Spoken1  X/10

Spoken 2 X/15 (last half of the course) Spoken mark is worth 25% in total.

 

For the final three weeks, we will keep doing tests and quizzes until the end of the course. Plus, there will be a second spoken mark for the final few weeks worth X/15. Plus, we will do a presentation worth 10 points.

You will have lots of opportunity to bring your marks up in the last three weeks of class.

You will also have lots of opportunity to bring your marks down if you stop working.

 

 

 

 

OPTIONS for registration- Stay at your current level or move up to the next level

EF4 – EF4 OR EF5

EF5- EF5 or EF6

You can register in one (1) class in the summer.

*I will teach P1 (8:30-12) EF5 in the summer.

Summer classes are five weeks.

 

Midterm recs

The South Hill English department strongly recommends that students who are marginally passing (50-60%) not advance to the next level.

People sometimes move up to English classes that they are not prepared for. This is up to you. The passmark in BC is 50%.

 

We want to encourage students who are doing well in classes to register early for the next level. Therefore, the minimum average required to receive a recommendation from me for early registration (starting Monday, June 10th) for the next level is 65%. This is to allow stronger students first chance at registering. This is also to dissuade students who are not ready from registering in a class that may be too high for them.

 

We want the strongest students to have an opportunity to register first.

If you’re below 65%, you will have wait a while to register for the next level.

 

NOTE: At the end of the quarter,the passmark is 50%. That is your final mark on the last day.

The 65% is just for early registration.

You can move up to the next level with 50% at the end of the course, but I don’t think that is strong enough. You have to get better at your English.

 

We have three weeks left in our course. You can change your mark significantly depending on the quizzes and tests yet to come. We have about 3 quizzes and 3-4 tests, essays, presentations, plus other marks yet to come. Plus the second in-class spoken mark and the HW and RW pts.

 

You can bring your mark up.

Also, you can bring your mark down.

This is approximately the halfway point.

 

SCENARIO 1

Test1 4/6              8/12

Test2 3.5/6           7/12

Quiz1 4/6             4/6

Quiz2 3/6             3/6

Quiz3 5/6             5/6

RW                        5pts

Spoken                 2/10

ADD                      34/53= 64% (numbers might be added up wrong)

 

SCENARIO 2

Test1 4/6              8/12

Test2 3.5/6           7/12

Quiz1 4/6             4/6

Quiz2 3/6             3/6

Quiz3 5/6             5/6

RW                        5pts

Spoken                 7/10

ADD                      39/53= 74%

 

 

 

 

 

 

**

Review of causative verbs:

Write a few sentences that use causative verbs.

help, allow, invite, convince, hire, encourage, force, tell, ask

help, have, make, let

 

convince- give somebody reasons why they should agree with you

He convinced/persuaded his wife to move to Calgary.

 

EXAMPLE

He invited his parents to come to their grandson’s birthday party.

He asked me about the class. SIMPLE

He asked me to pick him up at the airport. CAUSATIVE

My friend helps me with my move. NOT CAUSATIVE

My friend helps me to move to a new place. CAUSATIVE

I asked my friends to help me to move. CAUSATIVE

I asked my friends so that I could move more easily. COMPLEX SENTENCE- ADV CL

 

**My goal in this course is to show options for writing great sentences.

 

He met for lunch with a friend.

He met for lunch with some friends.

 

 

I asked my friends so that I could move more easily. COMPLEX- ADV CL

I asked my friends, so I could move more easily. COMPOUND

, SOBA

 

 

 

Test#3

Write a paragraph of at least 150 words.

Doublespace

Margins

Pen

Choose one topic:

1.    What English skills do you want to work on in the final three weeks of class?

OR

2.    What is your favourite food? Write about it. Why is it your favourite?