Good morning, everyone.
Today’s Agenda
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Investigate PLOs (Prescribed Learning Outcomes)
“Prescribed Learning Outcomes”
·
Test#1- pass-in paragraph (last 45m)
·
HW “Going
to the Bank”- Everyday Dialogues
Tuesday or Wednesday
·
Return Test#1
Go over
Optional RW for bonus point
Tuesday
·
“Going to the Bank”- Everyday Dialogues
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PLOs
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dialogue- conversation, chat(casual), formal, serves a
purpose, discuss(v), discussion(n)
role-play- we pretend to be another person e.g. bank
manager, prospective customer/client
customer- one-time, not a special customer, regular
client- special customer, longterm customer, lots of
transactions, important account, $$, work closely with manager, VIP,
lawyer-client confidentiality
EUPHEMISMS- business language- client, face-to-face customer
service job- a representative
“Your call is important to us. Please hold for the next
representative/agent. Your estimated wait time is 114 minutes.”
Some companies, like Shaw Cable, have callback features.
doctor/patient
teacher/student
teacher/learner
teacher/pupil- young student, a kid
tutor- private teacher outside of school, extra teaching
instructor- teacher, college
professor- university teacher
doctor- have a PhD, doctorate
-bachelor's degree
-master’s degree
-doctorate
To teach in a college, the requirement is normally a
master’s degree.
coach- competition in sports
fitness instructor- Zumba, aerobics, Pilates
yoga instructor
meditation instructor, meditation master-
music teacher, math teacher, English teacher
swimming instructor- teach basic swimming
swimming coach- competition
My wife is a volleyball coach for teenaged girls.
trainer- bodybuilding
personal trainer- often one-on-one, helps you to build
muscle in a gym
physical therapist, kinesiologist- higher level
physio(short way)
dialogue and variations/different ways of saying the same
thing/options
life coach, spiritual advisor,
counsellor- higher level, accredited
bus=coach(UK)
If you want to be a real coach, you have to do some classes
and pass some tests. You can become an NCCP coach.
-sports ethics
-interacting with minors
-concussions
-coach, assistant coach
nutritionist -nutrition coach, advisor- special diets,
special health concerns, weight loss, diabetes
from www.bced.gov.bc.ca
PLOs “Prescribed
Learning Outcomes”
Every Foundations
course has PLOs.
-guidelines for
what I should teach
-broad areas of
focus
-areas to explore
in the course
Explore vocabulary
Prescribed Learning
Outcomes
-prescribed(adj)-
like an order, mandatory, not an option
-prescription(noun)
A doctor
prescribes(v) some medicine. – recommend, need to take, tells you
Some teachers teach
prescriptive grammar. –hard grammar rules
who/whom
past perfect verb
tense
Some teachers teach
descriptive grammar. –soft grammar guidelines
-learning(verb,adj,noun)
– synonyms- knowledge(n), study(v), understanding(n), discover(v), research,
educating, developing, growing, getting better, explore, improve, increase,
comprehension
Nice rich vocab!
NEW BEST FRIEND:
thesaurus.com
Wonderful for
getting new vocabulary.
A thesaurus gives
synonyms and antonyms.
-outcome(n)-
result, find, discover, as a result, finish, end, conclude, completed,
complete, therefore, final, sum up, at the end, what you got, aftermath,
summation, summative
PLOs (Prescribed
Learning Outcomes) – the things that we should be able to do by the end of the
course.
Setting goals-
plan, target, aim, trajectory, path, vision, purpose, dream?, destination,
ambition, project, aspiration(n), aspire(v)
“I want/aspire to
be an immigration lawyer.”
“My aspiration is
to run my own business.”
“My
plan/aspiration/ambition is to be an interior designer.”
Stretch your
comfort zone.
IDIOM your comfort
zone – just doing what does not challenge you, used to it already, comfortable,
no risk, no pressure
Going outside our
comfort zone is challenging, frightening, destabilizing, stressful, etc.
One the other hand,
this is where growth comes from.
-personal growth,
professional growth, confidence, mastery
-explore, grow
MY MOTTO: I have to
say ‘yes’ to new good experiences, especially for music.
motto- special
words you can tell yourself
The PLOS are
opportunities for growth.
Growth can be
painful.
Our PLOS- goals for
the course.
Looked over for
homework
A.ORAL LANGUAGE
B.READING AND
VIEWING
C.WRITING AND
REPRESENTING
D.EVIDENCE OF
THINKING
BIG QUESTIONS to
think about when you read through them
1.
Which PLOs feel most important to you? Which
ones resonate with you? Which ones stand out to you as being relevant to your
life?
resonate(v)-
vibrate, shake, has deep meaning, feel deeply
relevant- related,
connected to, important, meaningful
2.
Which of the PLOs do you already do well? Which
ones are your strengths. Which one are you already good at?
-PROFICIENT/EXTENDING
3.
Which of the PLOs do you want to improve upon?
Which ones reveal some weakness that could strenghtened? Which ones do feel
would be worthwhile working on?
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EMERGING, DEVELOPING
Tomorrow- Small groups.
We will do some small group talking about your choices for
the PLOs. Be prepared to contribute some ideas.
Test#1
Use lined ruled paper.
Devices away.
Full name and class top right corner.
Doublespace.
Write a paragraph of at least 150 words on the following
topic.
What job would you like to have in the future?
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