EF56 Class 1

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

This is the Period 1 (P1) (M-F 9:15-11:30) class for this course:

English Foundations 5

English Foundations 6

 

First come, first served for seats.

 

Are you in the right class? I sent you an email yesterday. If you got my email, you are in the right class.

 

If you did not get my email, you may not be in the right class, or the office may have an incorrect email for you. Check your email now.

 

If you are on the waiting list, you should have gotten an email from the school. If not, go to the office.

 

NOTE: Everything that you see on this screen, I will put on my blog every day.

You can find my school blog here: haleyshec.blogspot.com

I will talk more about the blog later.

 

I will take attendance.

 

 Today’s Agenda

·      Welcome

·      Housekeeping (prelimary information, matters to deal with)

o   Student wifi

o   Parking

o   Covid protocols

·      Communication via/by email

·      New cell phone policy for BC schools

·      Curriculum- education, class, course

o   Dates, times for our class

o   Course overview- handout

·      Small group chatting- icebreaker

·      IF TIME Student Questionaire

 

 

VOCAB agenda

Every day I will post an ‘agenda’

-‘agenda’- used for meetings, school, business or government

-the things that we are going to talk about, plan, schedule

-business world- business meetings always have agendas, Strata council meetings

VOCAB strata – own an apartment, condominium, condo

Strata council meetings- homeowners meet to discuss the building

 

agenda- list of items to talk about, schedule for the meeting or class

-helps to keep the meeting or class on track, organized

-lets everyone know what to expect, what is coming

 

IDIOM ‘stay on track’ ‘keep on track’ – stay organized, not get distracted, have a plan and follow it, stick to the plan

IDIOM stick to your plan– follow your plan

She wants to go to college, so she will stick to her plan of finishing her courses at SHEC.

She wants to go to college, so she is trying to stay on track finishing her courses at SHEC.

The little boy finds it hard to stay on track with his homework. He is easily distracted.

I want to lose my weight, but I can’t stay on track.

I want to lose some weight. She lost weight last year.

Sheila finds it challenging to stay on track with her gym routine.

VOCAB -euphemism-polite word instead of the more direct word

This math is hard. The math is challenging.

Business vocab - difficult, hard- EUPHEMISM -challenging

Euphemism(n) – pron you-fem-ism

He used a euphemism when his friend’s grandmother died.

die- pass away, pass

doctor- operation-surgery procedure You will undergo a procedure.

Dentist You may feel some pain pressure.

Teacher  Interesting. Wrong. No. joke

 

 Today’s Agenda

·      Welcome

·      Housekeeping (prelimiary information, matters to deal with)

o   Student wifi

o   Parking

o   Covid protocols

·      Communication via email

·      New cell phone policy for BC

·      Curriculum- education, class, course

o   Dates, times for our class

o   Course overview- handout

·      Small group chatting- icebreaker

·      IF TIME Student Questionaire

 

 

*Welcome

My name is Allan Haley.

Please call me Allan. Calling me by my first name is fine. I will call you by your first name, too.

If you have a name that is different from the name in your school record, let me know. I will try to remember it.

 

This is my school email: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

 

 I sent you an email yesterday. Did you get my email?

If you got my email, that means that we can communicate by email.

If you did not get my email, that means that there is a problem with the email. If you did not get my email, you can fix that in the office.

If you didn’t get my email, check your JUNK folder.

 

 

**Parking**

Scan the QR code on the pink piece of paper.

Put it your licence plate.

Put it in your first name and last name.

 

Licence plate on your car

 

English vocab

First name – given name

Last name- family name, surname

 

Causes confusing when filling out forms and documents.

Chinese and Vietnamese is opposite.

 

Ling Yan- English

Yan Ling – Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean

 

Source of confusion- order of names

 

You will be able to park in the SHEC parking lot until August 31, 2025.

SHEC- South Hill Education Centre

 

*If you brought your car, sign up in the app asap so that you do not get a ticket. Your car will probably not get towed away. I have never a tow truck in the parking lot at SHEC. Plenty of people have gotten tickets.

**Wifi*

We have school wifi for students.

Wifi: VSB-Commons

Wifi password: FZUVvsdR

 

 

***

New cell phone policy in BC schools, from BC Ministry of Education

 

Personal Digital Device Usage

Personal digital device- phone, tablet, laptop

 

To foster a safe and focused learning environment for students, the use of personal digital devices, that distract from learning, such as cell phones, tablets and electronic devices, are restricted during school hours and on school property. Educators and school staff will continue to model digital citizenship in the classroom and avoid the use of personal digital devices for non-instructional purposes.

 

IDIOM glued to their phone

 

Not allowed:

1.    Recording the class (audio or video)

2.    Translating apps (in real time)

 

Personal digital devices must be turned off or placed on silent mode before entering the classroom and remain silent during instructional time.  Personal digital devices are not permitted for use during class/instructional time unless an educator has given permission.

 

The use of personal devices is permitted under the following circumstances:

For educational purposes, as directed by the educator in the classroom.

 

For health and medical purposes as outlined in an Individual Education Plan or Student Safety Plan.

To support special or diverse educational needs, such as assistive technology related to Individual Education Plans or Student Support Plans.

The expectation is that students will follow the personal digital device policy and school guidelines.

 

Tiktok- short video clips, 5-10s, highly addictive

Instagram

Be careful! These are highly addictive. They are designed to be time users/wasters. Somebody is making $ from your time and attention.

 

*** IMPORTANT ***

Cell phones or other electronic devices are not allowed during quizzes and test. They must be put away, out of sight. If it’s out visible on the table, the school policy is to give a 0 for the quiz or test. If you forget, then remember. Put it away in your pocket, in your bag.

If you really have a serious emergency, let me know.

VOCAB exam – quiz, test

 

*** Class Blog ***

Everything that goes on this screen, I will put up on our class blog.

CLASS BLOG: haleyshec.blogspot.com

It’s on the course handout. I will didtribute the course handout in a few minutes.

You do not have to make notes as we go because everything on the screen will go onto the blog. Neverthless, making notes during class is an excellent way to improve retention. The best students usually make notes during a class or lecture. They review their notes on their own afterward, within 24 hours. It refreshes the knowledge. It helps to make the new information permanent.

VOCAB retention(noun) – retain, remember (verb), recall(v), bring to mind

re- again  return, remember, review, return, recognize, realyze,

cognition(n)- think, understand

cognitive(adj)- President Biden has some obvious cognitive decline.

My grandmother had a sharp physical decline when she broke her hip.

Alzheimer’s disease- dimentia

Difficult cognitive work can stave off dimentia.

VOCAB FROM CONTEXT stave off- keep away, stop

Difficult cognitive work- puzzles, learning a new language, pingpong, chess, Go, new musical instrument, squash

Are you worried about cognitive decline?

Learn something difficult.

#1- nurture a good vibrant social circle Loneliness kills!

 

remind(v) reminder(n)  My sister reminded me to call our mother.

 

The blog can serve as your notes.

Making your own notes in a class helps you to retain information.

 

 

***CLASS BLOG

 

VOCAB blog – weblog- keep a written record on the internet, online diary, publish your thoughts

Some people are bloggers.

the web- worldwide web- www, internet

log- written record

-nurse in a hospital, truck driver- keep a log, weight loss plan-watching your diet- record events as they occur

 

web + log = blog

 

brunch= breakfast + lunch

 

smog= smoke+fog   dirty air above a city

 

Spanglish = Spanish + English

 

 

 

I will update my blog every day after class. You can check it and review what we did in class.

Reviewing material is the best way to help remember new information.

 

VOCAB review(verb,noun) re- again view-see,watch,look

rewrite, redo, repeat, reheat, replace, remember, recognize, retain, retension

recognize re-again cogn-understand cognitive(adj)

 

You can check the blog as much as you like. There is no sign-in, no password. It’s all public and accessible.

You can keep using it after the course is over.

I am planning to keep my blog up forever.

Our blog is a tremendous resource that you can use.

My class blog goes back 11 years.

My blog is searchable. You can search for something specific that you are looking for.

The search bar is in the upper lefthand cornr of the main blog screen. Search for whatever you want to learn more about. The search bar might not work on your phone.

Click on “View web version” on the bottom of the page.

 

 

 

 

***ACTION***

I will post out notes so far on the blog.

Go to the blog now. Make sure you can open it.

haleyshec.blogspot.com

Let me know if you are having trouble opening my blog.

Any trouble getting in? We’ll figure it out.

If yes? Good!

If no? Let me know, or ask somebody.

Excellent work!

 

***

Attendance and Course Outlines

EF5 English Foundations 5

EF6 English Foundations 6

 

Everybody needs a course outline and the Prescribed Learning Outcomes for the course.

 

 

***Covid protocols***

Some people are asymptomatic.

VOCAB protocol- accepted ways to act, best ways to do things

Wash your hands many times a day.

Use moisturizer/hand lotion/hand cream.

Use hand sanitizer.

 

In class:

Two bottles of sanitizer at the front

Feel free to wear a mask if you want.

When we wear a mask, we lose the facial expressions. We lose the lip reading.

We get a lot of information from facial epressions, lips reading, etc.

 

Talking on the phone is challenging. It is harder than talking face-to-face.

VOCAB challenging- difficult

EUPHEMISM – ‘you fem ism’ a word that we use instead of the less polite word

challenging- difficult, hard

die- pass away, pass

toilet- washroom, restroom, bathroom

 

**Emails***

I sent an email to you yesterday. If you received that email from me, than that means we can communicate via email. If you did not receive an email from me, that means I do not have your email in the computer system. We will have to fix that.

 

VOCAB via(preposition)- by She gets to school by/via the bus.

He goes to work via car.

via – the way that you go, your route, through

ViaRail

Hossein came to Canada from Iran via Ukraine.

He flew to Canada from China via Hong Kong.

Maria flew to Halifax via Toronto.

You can fly directly to Tokyo from Vancouver.

 

You fly to Ethiopia via Toronto.

 

She flew to Vancouver from Tehran via Istanbul and Montreal. She had a three-hour layover in Montreal

 

 

 

VOCAB layover(noun,verb)- waiting in the airport

 

 

 

She became a college instructor via nursing.

 

My wife became a college instructor via being a CDA.

 

CDA- certified dental assistant

 

 

 

 

 

prepositions- to from via

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emails-

When you send an email to me, please put your full name and class in the subject line of your email.

SUBJECT: Joe Chen, EF5

 

I asked you to respond to ahaley@vsb.bc.ca with your full name and the class you are in the subject line of your email. Many of you responded to the email as I requested.

 

I responded “Thank you, Allan.”

If you got my response email, everything is ok.

 

 

Thank you for that. I want email communciation to be seamless between us.

 

VOCAB/IDIOM seamless(adjective)- smooth, no problems , no confusion

seam – where two pieces of cloth are sewed, joined, rough area, bumpy

seamless- not rough, smooth, easy

 

Registering for this class was seamless. adjective

Taking the Skytrain using a credit card is seamless.

Raising teenagers is rarely seamless. It is challenging. The road can be rocky.

Immigrating to Canada is not a seamless process. There is a lot of paperwork. There are a lot of hurdles.

VOCAB hurdle- something to jump over

IDIOM – jump through hoops

I had to jump through a lot of hoops to become a citizen.

 

Ordering an ice cream at the McD’s drivethrough is seamless.

ice cream- soft serve

 

good driving food- one-handed

What’s the perfect driving food?

-drink with a straw

-finger food

-banana

 

***IMPORTANT***

When you send an email to me, please put your full name and class that you are in in the subject line of the email.

Then I will know who you are and what class you are in.

Some people might not be familiar with email. I can help, or maybe a classmate can help.

 

 

**Small group chatting

Let’s change gears.

Small group chatting

-chat(verb,noun) - casual talking, friendly, chew the fat

IDIOM chew the fat – nice friendly chatting

We went to a coffee shop and chewed the fat.

discuss- serious

 

 

FIRST DAY ICEBREAKER:

Get into groups of 4-5 people. Choose some people who you don’t know yet. Ideally choose people who do not speak your mother language.

Chat with your partners.

·      Name

·      Home

·      Family

·      Job/Profession/Employment

·      Travel

·      Hobbies- pastime, activities in your freetime

·      Future plans

Of course, we will chat in English.

 

 

CONTINUE TOMORROW