Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
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Midterm recommendations- one-on-one chats, first
half
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Future quizzes and tests- tables clear, just
paper
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Return Quiz3
Optional RW for bonus pt
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Prepositions- a necessary evil
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New dialogue- “Interviewing for a Job”
Job Interview questions that we can prepare
for
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Phrasal verbs
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Leftover grammar
Friday
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Attendance
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Midterm recommendations- one-on-one chats, first
half
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Xmas fun!
Christmas = Xmas
CANCELLED Tomorrow Period 2 sing-along for everybody,
singing Xmas carols
Two-week Xmas break
Midterm Recommendations- today and tomorrow
We are past the halfway point in the term. We have only three
weeks left.
Registration for Febriary courses will begin January 6th.
You will be able to register via the South Hill website as usual. You will be
emailed a link to follow in order to register.
I will show the class how to register. I will demonstrate what to
do on Jan6.
In order to register, you need a recommendation from your teacher.
The midterm recommendation is a snapshot or picture of how you are
doing at this moment, based on your average so far.
On Thursday and Friday this week, I will give you a midterm
recommendation for which English class you should register for in Q3. If you
are not going to take a class in Q3, you can use the midterm rec to register
for Q4 when the reg opens for Q4.
On Thursday and Friday, we will have a short chat at my desk. We
will talk about how things are going so far in this course and what your next
course should/could be. I will put your recommendation into a spreadsheet for
the advisors.
By ‘so far’, I mean we have finished five of nine weeks. “So far’
means ‘up to now’.
I can’t email the comments to you. If you want a copy of my
comments, you can take a picture of the comments on your phone.
The interim recommendation will be based on the quizzes and tests you
have done so far this term. Also, I will give you a spoken mark out of 10 based
on how much speaking you do in class. Plus there are points for rewrites.
The minimum average for early registration is 65%.
The final pass mark at the end of course is 50%.
If you are between 50-64%, you will have to wait a few days.
New BC Ministry of Education marking categories:
Emerging – first steps, beginning, not ready to move up
Developing- partial understanding, getting better
Proficient- have skills and abilities
Extending- sophisticated understanding and ability
REMINDER:
Tests are worth double what quizzes are worth.
Test X/6 = X/12
Quiz X/6 = X/6
RW Bonus 1 pt each
Spoken1 X/10
COMING UP
Spoken 2 X/15 (last half of the course) Spoken mark is worth 25% in total.
Essays (EF5,6.7)
Presentation
For the final three weeks, we will keep doing tests and quizzes
until the end of the course. Plus, there will be a second spoken mark for the
final few weeks worth X/15. Also, the EF5,6s will do an essay or two. Plus, we
will do a presentation worth 10 points.
You will have lots of opportunity to bring your marks up in the
last weeks of class.
You will also have lots of opportunity to bring your marks down if
you stop working.
OPTIONS for registration- Stay at your current level or move up to
the next level
EF5- EF5 or EF6
EF6- EF6 or EF7/Eng10
Midterm recs-
The South Hill English department strongly recommends that
students who are marginally passing (50-60%) not advance to the next level.
People sometimes move up to English classes that they are not
prepared for. This is up to you. The passmark in BC is 50%.
We want to encourage students who are doing well in classes to
register early for the next level. Therefore, the minimum average required to
receive a recommendation from me for early registration (starting
Monday, June 10th) for the next level is 65%. This is to allow stronger
students first chance at registering. This is also to dissuade students who are
not ready from registering in a class that may be too high for them. Everybody
wants to feel competent and challenged.
challenging but not too challenging- Zone of Proximal Development
We want the strongest students to have an opportunity to register
first.
If you’re below 65%, you will have wait a while to register for
the next level.
NOTE: At the end of the quarter,the passmark is 50%. That is your
final mark on the last day.
The 65% is just for early registration.
You can move up to the next level with 50% at the end of the
course, but I don’t think that is strong enough. You have to get better at your
English.
This is just past the halfway point.
Quiz3
Write a sentence with an adverb clause for each.
1. since encourage
Since my parents have been encouraging my brother, he has gotten at math class. perfect tenses-
span of time
past perfect substitute simple past
Shira had lived lived in Kabul for two years.
I lived in Iran before I lived in Turkey.
Since she encourages her children, they didn’t discourage
don’t feel /haven’t been discouraged about their life.
encouraged/discouraged(v,a)
I discouraged my dog
from jumping up on people when he was a puppy.
She is discouraged
about her math class.
Since she encourages her children, they don’t feel discouraged
about their life.
2. until party
The music at the party was very loud until while the
DJ was there.
The music at the party was very loud until the DJ left.
3. whenever weather
Whenever I go out at of my home, I always check the
weather.
I leave my home
4. after complain
She started complaining/to complain about him five minutes after
they got married.
He is always regretful after he complains about his wife.
regret(v,n)- wish you hadn’t done something
Ali tended startedcto complain about the movie after
he came home last night.
I tend to complain about our messy kitchen.
start + infinitive OR gerund
He started to cry. He started crying.
After son was complain complained about his school,
we tried to find a better school.
5. if job
6. because opportunity
I could find good opportunity/opportunities for my son.
She seized the chance to study abroad because the
opportunity was too good to pass up.
too good to pass up- too good to miss
too good to be true- a trick, a scam, not real
They don't have enough opportunity/ies because they don't
have specific skills.
He rectified the problem. He fixed the problem. He corrected
the quiz.
Success is for comes to people who work hard because
they are always ready for the opportunities. ADJECTIVE CLAUSE adverb
clause
She stayed in/at/with her job because she didn't have any
other opportunity/ies in her field.
Preposition
Exercise9
1. I
go to school. He goes to church.
2.
bagel- savoury donut
-sweet
5. Math 12 is beyond me. It’s beyond me why iphones are so
expensive.
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