EF45 Class 18

 

We all need motivation.

We all need motivation.

motivation(n) motivate(v) motivating(adj)

She gives her daughter motivation to keep going.

He motivates himself to improve his English skills.

She told a motivating story about her difficult past.

motive(n)- reason

 

a motivation – uncountable noun

-Countable noun -  one, two, three

one pencil, two dogs

-Uncountable noun- no number

sugar, water, money

a lot of, lot of, some, a little bit of, one cup of, one teaspoon of paprika

 

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Continue verb tenses- present progressive

Exercise 3 from homework

·      First Nations lecture

 

Next few days- few extra minutes

·      Continue vocab exercises- pick away at them when we have some extra time

·      Continue dialogue “Going to a Walk-In Clinic”

·      Continue verb tenses- past progressive

 

Friday

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 4

·      First Nations

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

 

Monday

No school

Day for Truth and Reconciliation- Fiurst Nations Peoples in Canada

 

Tuesday

·      Begin complex sentences

 

Next few weeks-

1.    Reading texts- short stories, poetry

2.    EF5 multi-paragraph writing- short essays

 

 

Paragraph(one block of writing at least 100 words)

Topic sentence

Supporting sentences

Concluding sentence

 

Essay(3,4,5 blocks of writing at least 300 words)

Introductory paragraph

Body paragraphs

Concluding paragraph

 

SECRET OF GOOD WRITING FOR SCHOOL:

1.You have to be able to write good sentences. SIMPLE COMPOUND COMPLEX

2.Organize your ideas before you write them.

 

 

Simple Present vs Present Progressive

Exercise 3

1.Billy has a bad cold. I have Covid. She has the flu. He is lying in bed at the moment.

2.now - is walking   loves- always

3.am going – plan   It costs $1500. one thousand five hundred, fifteen hundred

4.hates    is wearing- clothes  For clothing, use present progressive.

She is wearing a hoodie today.

likes

5.has    loves- habit

6.Juan Spanish names- J-Hwa   are jogging

Juanita-

Javiera-

Javier

Jacinta/o

Julio

Benjamin

is following

think

belongs

7.hear

am

heard(simple past) hear(simple present)

I am here.

I hear something outside. I heard something downstairs.

She is tired. I am happy. We are excited.

8.are   are watching

9.drives    is taking    has/had

10.are driving   see/saw

 

I smell burning/burnt sugar. Are you making caramel?

I taste honey.

She tasted the soup and added some salt.

She tasted freedom when she came to Canada.

 

All freedoms have limits.

For example, my freedom of speech ends at the point where I unfairly hurt other people’s reputation.

 

Be cool. Don’t bother anybody else. You can do what you want.

 

Mind your own business. Keep your nose out of people’s business.

Live and let live.

 

 

 

Lecture notes for First Nations

 

·      Starting in May, 2021

·      Unmarked graves of First Nations children have been found on the grounds of old Residential Schools, 315 kids? in Kamloops

·      more and more suspected unmarked graves discovered across Canada

·      thousands and thousands of suspected graves found so far

-         used ground-penetrating radar

·      fear probably thousands more across Canada

 

 

·      Residential Schools- 150 000 First Nations kids went to residential schools over the years

over 4000 kids died, maybe 6000

 

·      Residential Schools all across Canada

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools-in-canada-interactive-map

·      Organized by the Canadian government, run by the Christian churches (mainly Catholic and Anglican churches), paid for by the federal government, tax dollars

·      about 150 000 First Nations kids were forcibly taken away from their families to Residential Schools from 1860s to 1990s.

Revelations- big ugly secrets in Canada

 

·      Now we know!

·      Focus of BC new curriculum- First Nations

First Nations ways of knowing, culture, history in Canada

e.g. First Peoples 11 & 12

Very interesting area of study – good choice - First Peoples 11 and First Peoples 12

We offer these classes at South Hill – some students do both English 12 and FP12

-recognized by all postsecondary institutions

 

Times have changed- new recogniton of the importance of First Nations in this land

 

Big contrast

·      My school experiences- none of the history, social studies was about First Nations

The focus was history class was on Europeans, settlers, White men in Canada

male-centred, Euro-centred

In high school

·      lots of First Nations kids in my school, segregated,

seemed normal, normalized, unstated expectation

segregation – separation of races or groups

MicMac- migmaw

·      racist attitudes towards First Nations people “Indians”

dismissive, belittling, negative stereotypes

 

** Maybe tell these stories

·      policy at my university – have to finish your degree in seven years

students/ professors –led initiative to change it to 10 yrs

 

·      racism against First Nations – BCTF AGM story

700 teachers

“equity-seeking groups” wanted representation

 

Overview - introduction

·      First Peoples -Who they are?

·      Small groups

“What do you know about First Nations people in Canada?”

Generate ideas on LCD

 

old racist word “red skin”

Sports team football  The Washington Red Skins

changed in 2020 to The Washington Commanders

hockey team on Vancouver Island Saanich Junior Braves

Victoria Admirals

my high school Riverview Redmen

name changed in 2020

 

 

Three groups of people constitute Indigenous Peoples in Canada, also called First Peoples. Also called Aboriginal. Native

-old word, outdated vocab Indian

1. First Nations -people in the south of Canada

2. Inuit Eskimo – people in the north of Canada

Eskimo Pies– ice cream sandwiches

3. Métis – ‘mixed’ people who are First Nations and European ancestry

 

First Nations came into common usage in the 1980s to replace the term ‘Indians’

·      Talk about origin of the word ‘Indian’ due to geographical misunderstanding, West Indies

 

 

·      First Nations- Indigenous people in the South (below Arctic Circle). Half of all First Nations bands are in Ontario and BC.

·      Inuit are the Indigenous people who live in the North. Used to be called ‘Eskimo’- disparaging term from French Esquimaux, from Montagnais ayas̆kimew ‘person who laces a snowshoe’. Montagnais, or Innu, are the Indigenous inhabitants of an area they refer to as Nitassinan, which comprises most of the northeastern portion of the present-day province of Quebec and some eastern portions of Labrador.

Discredited etymology ‘raw fish eater’

Website: https://www.itk.ca/about-canadian-inuit/#nunangat

Show map: “Inuit Map”

Metis - French- do not pronounce the ‘s’   may-tee

-a person of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry

1600s and 1700s - Fur trading European men came to hunt animals, like beavers

In particular one of a group of such people who in the 19th century constituted the so-called Metis nation in the areas around the Red and Saskatchewan rivers. Metis comes from the French word ‘métis’, which means ‘mixed’.

·      The three groups: First Nations/ Inuit/ Metis

 

 

·      Where did these people come from?

·      First Nations creation myths/ creation stories

Every culture has a creation myth/story – legend, fiction, story, explains real life, explains natural phenomena

Greek Myth- e.g. Echo-magical creature- nymph, Narcissus- narcissist- a person who is self-absorbed

 

Every group has a creation story/myth

Bible- Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve

Koran- Quran - simlar story

 

Different First Nations groups have different creation stories.

·      Read “The Beginning of the Haidi Gwaii World” on LCD

·      Talk about Raven

- prominent role in the mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, including the Tsimishians, Haidas, Heiltsuks, Tlingits, Kwakwaka'wakw, Coast Salish, Koyukons, and Inuit. The raven in these indigenous peoples' mythology is the Creator of the world, but it is also considered a trickster god.

-two different raven characters:

-the creator raven, responsible for bringing the world into being and who is sometimes considered to be the individual who brought light to the darkness

-the childish raven, always selfish, sly, conniving, and hungry

 

The Beginning of the Haida Gwaii World

 

In the beginning, before the creation of the world, the earth was completely covered by a vast ocean and the sky was all grey clouds. The cloud kingdom was ruled by the great Sha-lana. Sha-lana's Chief servant was Raven.

One day Raven enraged his master and was cast out into the ocean world. He flew over the ocean for a long period of time until he became weary. Unable to find a place to rest, Raven became angry. He began to beat his wings upon the water until the water rose up and touched the clouds around him.

When the water receded back into the ocean there appeared rocks upon which Raven rested. These rocks grew and stretched across the ocean. The rocks turned into sand and after a short period of time trees began to grow on the sand. After many moons the sand had turned into beautiful islands, which we know today as the Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands).

Raven enjoyed his kingdom, yet he became bored and lonely. He decided he needed someone to help him. So one day he gathered two large piles of clam shells upon the beach and transformed them into two human females. These two women complained saying that they should not have both been created as women. So to make them happy Raven threw limpet shells at one and turned her into a man, creating the Haida Gwaii people."

 

Clark, E., Indian Legends of Canada, McClelland and Stewart: Toronto, 1991.

https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/exhibits/bc-archives-time-machine/galler07/frames/oralhist.htm

 

 

·      Show pictures “Raven1” “Raven2” “Raven and the First Men”

“Spirit of Haida Gwaii” YVR (Vancouver Airport), other pictures jewelry

Haida Gwaii- Queen Charlotte Islands

 

·      Different First Nations have different stories-

e.g.Micmac, Mi'kmaq, Glooscap

 

**about 630 different First Nations in Canada- all different stories

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Going to a Walk-In Clinic”

 

Let’s get into some small groups (4-5 people).

*Warm-Up Questions

MD- medical doctor

a family doctor

There is a shortage of family doctors.

shortage-not enough

walk-in- no reservation,   first-come, first-served

Emergency is walk-in. Nurses do triage.

triage- putting patients in order of seriousness

pneumonia-

Emerg- Emergency Room at VGH, Children’s Hospital

 

*Vocab Preview

restaurant- Do you have a reservation?

Party of four.

You have to line up to get on the bus.

My son went to volleyball clinic. (special training)

gymnasium- gym, place for sports

 

car insurance, life insurance, travel insurance, house insurance, medical insurance, pet insurance,

supplementary insurance-

VOCAB supplementary- extra

Students may be covered under the insurance of the post-secondary institution.

VOCAB covered- protected

You have ICBC coverage.

You can get life insurance.

 

 

In Canada, you may have a pension from your job.

You will get Canada Pension Plan if you worked and paid into CPP.

Also, you may get OAS (Old Age Supplement) if you are low-income.

You can also save money in your RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan).

 

*Practice dialogue