EF45 Class 28

 

My schedule for November quarter:

P1 9:15-11:30     EF45

P2 12-2:15 Writing Improvement 567

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      “Self Assessment Reflection” Week 6

Pass it in by the end of class today

·      “Thanksgiving”

·      One-on-one midterm recommendations (second half of students)

 

Three Abrahamic religions- Christianity   Judeiam   Islam(Muslim)

 

Next few days- few extra minutes

·      New dialogue “Handling a Medical Emergency”

 

Next few weeks-

·      Reading texts- literary terms, short stories, poetry

·      EF5 multi-paragraph writing- short essays

 

 

Friday

Monday

NO SCHOOL!

Thanksgiving Monday

 

Tuesday

·      First day of registration for November quarter.

·      Continue verb tenses- past progressive

Practice work

·      Review of sentence progress so far

·      Continue modals/modal auxiliaries

 

Next term, I will be teaching these courses:

·      Begin noun clauses

·      Continue verb tenses – present perfect

 

 

 

 

“Thanksgiving”

-give thanks

 

cupboard- cup board(piece of wood)

 

kitchen counter- flat space for cutting, eating, prep

 

breakfast- break fast-no eating for a period time

 

I had to fast for 12 hours before the blood test.

People fast during Ramadan.

 

You break your fast. You haven’t eaten since the night before.

 

fast- feast – opposite meanings

fast – no eating

feast-large meal

IDIOM stuff your guts  I’m stuffed. I’m full.

I ate too much.

 

Vocab

1.    honour(v)- show respect   The kids honoured their parents’ wishes.

The Canadian government honoured Malala Yousafzai with citizenship.

It’s an honour.

My son is my pride and joy.

IDIOM pride and joy

My daughter is the apple of my eye.

IDIOM the apple of my eye

2.    harvest(v,n)

3.    lunar(a)-

solar(a)-

Northern Lights- Aurora Borealis

4.    autumn-fall

5.    hut- beach hut

UV rays reflect off the snow. You can get a sunburn when you are skiing.

You can also get snow blindness.

6.    wander(v)

7.    decorate(v) decoration(v) ornament(n,v)

Xmas tree ornaments

8.    ancestor(n)

9.    settler(n)

10.                       colony(n) colonize(v)  Morocco was a colony of France.

France also colonized Vietnam.

Quebec licence plate: Je me souviens  “I remember”

Teh Basque want to seperate from Spain.

Many Quebecers want separation from Canada.

11.                       starvation(n) starve(v)

12.                       disease(n)

 

 

Reading

Read and repeat

I’ll read a couple sentences. Then you can repeat them.

lunar calendar-

moon cakes-

 

 

desert

dessert

Saraha Desert, Gobi Desert – camels, scorpion

Mexican desert- cactus, rattlesnake

 

sap- sweet, sugary liquid from any tree

 

 

First Nations traditional medicine

-birch tree- Aspirin, headaches, mild pain

-itchy skin- Yarrow, Plantain- steep it and make a liquid, put it on your skin, helps with inflamation

-Vitamin C- oranges, lemons, etc, fresh fruit, boil up pine needles

 

-pilgrims    - first European settler in North America

- a person who takes a long trip for religious reasons