EF34 Class 29

 

These are the courses that I will be teaching in Quarter 2:

P1 (9:15-11:30) EF 45

P2 (12-2:15) Writing Improvement 567

Please, don’t register in both of these classes. These two classes will be 90% the same. There are many many who want to take these classes.

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Registration- talk about the process

You will get an email confirmation of your request. You may have to wait a couple of weeks to get confirmation on your courses.

·      Talk about spoken presentations

·      “Homonyms, Synonyms, Antonyms”

·      Modals- practice sentences

 

Wednesday

·      Begin complex sentences

·      Prepare for paragraph tomorrow

 

Outstanding items:

·      Continue with dialogue “Going to the Bank”

·      “100 Most Used Nouns and Verbs”

 

Thursday

·      Test#3- paragraph

 

 

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Oral Presentation: A Person in My Life Who I Admire

 

TOPIC: Who is a person in your life who you admire? Choose one person.

 

admire(v)- respect, look up to, want to follow their example, act like them

They are a role model to you. Someone who is a mentor to you.

 

It can be any person who you know: older, younger, a sibling, parent, relative, friend, community member, etc. This person can be from your home country, Canada, or anywhere. It must be somebody that you know personally.

 

You will put together a short presentation about that person. There will be two main parts to this project:

 

WRITTEN (6 points)

A couple of paragraphs.

Paragraph 1-Writing describing who they are. Write a brief biography (the story of their life) for them. What is their name, age, etc? Give their background. Some details of their biography. Explain who they are.

Paragraph 2-Writing explaining why you admire them. What characteristics do they have that you admire? What do they do that you admire?

 

          You will give me the writing the day before you do your presentation.

 

SPOKEN (2-3 minutes) (4 points)

On your presentation day, you will come to the front of the class and talk to us. You will tell the class about this person and why you admire them. You can take a few written notes in case you forget something. However, no reading, please.

 

Start to think about what person you would like to write and talk about.

 

Here are some possible topics to focus on:

Their life story

Their personality traits

Things they have said

Their greatest achievements

Their effect on other people

When you met this person

Why you admire them

If you’d like to be like them or not

 

 

Step 1- Choose a person that you would like to talk about. Email the name of the name to me by tomorrow 7PM. (1pt)

Step 2- Sign up for a presentation time

Step 3- Begin to brainstorm ideas. Then begin to write.* (class time) I will do a check-in with you on Friday.(1pt)

*You could get ChatGPT to write this for you in .003 seconds. Hopefully, you will take this as an opportunity to do some organized, planning, and writing on your own.ope

 

 

 

 

 

Marks x/10-

1 point email by tomorrow 7PM (deadline)

                     1 point check-in (on Friday)

4 points for writing

                     4 points for speaking

 

 

 

FAQ (Frequency Asked Questions)

-Will we do the preparation work in class? We will take some class time, but you will have to do much of the prep and writing outside of class.

-Can I show pictures or videos? Yes, absolutely. Email them to me before your presentaion. I will project them on the screen.

 

We will start getting ideas together starting today. We will take some time in class over the next few classes to organize, write, and polish.

 

 

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“Homonyms, Synonyms, Antonyms”

*homonym- two words that are pronounce the same, different meaning

deer/dear, flower/flour, too/to/two, their/there/they’re

tree/three knight/night, meet/meat, see/sea, die/dye, son/sun

where/were break/brake, four/for/fore, where/wear

 

*synonym- two different words, same meaning

big/large/huge, small/little/tiny, nice/good/pleasant, difficult/hard/challenging,

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*antonym- two different words, opposite meaning

big/small, easy/hard/difficult, hot/cold, cool/nerdy

 

A thesaurus will help you build vocabulary.

 

Homograph- tear/tear – spelled the same, pronounced differently

read/read

record(v)/record(n)

She recorded a voice message.

He bought a new jazz record.

He broke the 100m record.

 

Homonyms- right/write

Yes, you are right about your rights. You can write about your rights.

 

The police found a body.

He has a great body.

Practice 1

1.ate/eight   She ate eight donuts.

2.meet/meat

3.right/write

4.son/sun   My son stared at the sun.

5.hear/here  I can hear something over here.

6.tale/tail

7.sea/see  He could see the sea.

8.their/they’re

They’re keeping their shoes over there.

9.knew/new

10. weak/week   She felt weak all week.

11.axe/acts – not pronounced exactly the same

 

Pineapple pie

1.b. hair band- scrunchy

You play billiards with a pool cue.

2.

He is very stingy. He doesn’t like to spend money. He is tight-fisted.

Money burns a hole in her pocket. She loves to spend money.

 

You have to improve your posture.

3.

The four seasons: winter   spring   summer   fall/autumn