EF45 Class 23

 

What American TV shows are popular on TV in your home country?

Some movies are censored by the government.

 

TV shows to listen to natural English:

Heartland

Anne Shirley

Road to Avonlea

This is Us

Friends

 

Plans for the weekend?

Today is miserable. It will clear up on the weekend.

-         a surprise birthday party

-         bake a cake

-         celebrate a new job

-         play golf

-         go to a restaurant with friends

-          

I will likely go to Chilliwack for fishing.

-catch and release

I am going to buy some groceries. I will go to a grocery store.

I am going to go to a job interview. That’s a little nervewracking.

VOCAB nervewracking  - stressful- feel nervous

The interview was nervewracking. I was nervous.

I will get a makeover.

I am working all weekend.

I work every weekend.

We will take her parents around Vancouver. We will get something to eat.

I like to ride double-decker busses.

 

Tsawwassen Mills- outlet mall

 

taxidermy- stuffed animals

 

 

Vocabulary for tools:

-vise grips

-needle nose pliers

-screwdriver – Phillips head, Robertson head, slot head

-screws #2, #3, #8,...

-set of Allen keys

-current tester

-hammer and nails

-saw

-adjustable wrench (spanner)

-a Swiss army knife, a multitool

-leather hole punch

-a three-hole punch

-socket wrench set

-hatchet(one hand) axe(two hands)

-drill and drill bits

 

IDIOM a wrench – a person who can fix cars or machines

He is a wrench.

He is a handiman. He can fix anything. He is a Jack-of-all-trades

handiwoman

 

She is icing/decorating the cake.

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 5

Pass in by end of class today

·      Continue complex sentences- adverb clauses

·      Listening fun

 

Monday

·      Attendance

·      math vocab

·      Continue complex sentences- adverb clauses

Prepare for quiz Tuesday

·      Continue verb tenses- past progressive

 

Tuesday

·      Quiz#3- adverb clauses

 

 

 

Next few days- few extra minutes

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

·      Continue verb tenses – present perfect

 

Next few weeks-

·      Reading texts- literary terms, short stories, poetry

·      EF5 multi-paragraph writing- short essays

 

 

 

Adverb Clauses

Write some complex sentences with adverb clauses.

 I’ll come around and check. Work together.

 

 

a few

I have a few pieces of paper.

I want to read a few pages of the short story.

I go to the gym in a few minutes.

 

Farsi – true/correct

Is the sentence correct/right?

Are you telling the truth?

truth(n) true(adj)

Is this right? It looks wrong to me.

 

That’s a deep question. That is a deep philosophical question.

 

off-topic- This is a little topic, but what ...?

 

Listening fun

6.    When you estimate, is your answer exact or approximate?

7.    How many holes do golfers play in a regular game?

8.    Name two kinds of precipitation. snow rain sleet hail

9.    What living things absorb carbon dioxide from the air and replace it with oxygen? CO2   O2

10.                       What is 2/5 of 25? 10

two fifths 2/5

25 = five fives   two fives = 10