WI567 Class 1

 

Old name: Composition and Writing 567

New name: Writing Improvement 567

 

Good afternoon, everyone.

 

This is the Period 2 (P2) (M-F 12-2:15) class for this course:

Writing Improvement 567

 

My name is Allan Haley

 

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.

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 our blog every day.

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

I will talk more about the blog later.

 

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Handouts- Course outline, Prescribed Learning Outcomes

 

I will take attendance.

 

 

 

 

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Welcome

·      Housekeeping (preliminary 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

 

VOCAB

funny(adj)- makes you laugh  She’s a really funny person.

fun(adj)- enjoyable, good time   She’s a fun person.

 

 

Every day I will post an ‘agenda’

VOCAB ‘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

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

helps to keep the meeting or class on track, organized

You will know what to expect.

 

VOCAB itinerary(n)- the activities that you will do, on a trip, on a vacation

 

-lets everyone know what to expect, what is coming

IDIOM stay on track, keep on track – stay organized, not get distracted, have a plan, stick to the plan

IDIOM stick to your plan– follow your plan

New Year’s Resolution-

 

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

The little boy finds it hard to stay on track with his homework.

You are staying on track with your English.

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

 

VOCAB track- path, road, trail

 

Who do you stay on track learning English?

 

BIG STEPS IN LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE

-thinking in English

-dreaming in English

 

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.

Email: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

 

High school: Mr. Lee. Ms. Sanchez

Chinese: Teacher Lee

Spanish- professor- university

 

Mr. Wong, Mrs. Ahmed

Colleagues- coworkers, workmates- first name

 

Hello, Mr. Wong.

Please call me Joe.

I go by Joe. – not real name, nickname, your preferred name that you gave yourself

I go by Tia.

My legal name Masoomeh. Please call me Shohre. I go by Shohre.

My name is Allan. My friends call me Al.

 

latitude and longitude-

 

**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.

Good until August 31, 2025.

 

 

English

First name – given name

Last name- family name, surname

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 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

 

 

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

personal digital device- cell phone, tablet, laptop, ipad, iwatch

 

Personal Digital Device Usage

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.

 

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. 

 

*** IMPORTANT ***

Cell phones or other electronic devices are not allowed out during quizzes and test. They must be put away, out of sight. If it’s out visible, 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.

 

*** 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.

 

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

 

Making notes in a class helps you to retain information.

 

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

Penglish

Chinglish

 

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(v), retension(n) – hold information

container

 

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!

 

 

 

***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.

 

We can communicate via email.

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

He goes to work via car.

I drove to school via Knight Street.

 

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

 

ViaRail- train

Amtrak- US

 

Hossein came to Canada from Iran via Germany.

He flew to Canada from China via Hong Kong.

Maria flew to Halifax via Toronto.

Halifax was the destination. Toronto was the transfer. The point of orogin was Calgary.

You can fly directly to Tokyo from Vancouver.

non-stop  It is a non-stop flight.

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

I became a cyber-security expert via sales.

 

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.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

·      Travel

·      Hobbies- pastime, activities in your freetime

·      Future plans

 

Of course, we will chat in English.