EF34 Class 4

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Student Questionaire- Give back to me

·      Talk about paragraphs,

A“Correction Codes”

·      “Making Small Talk”

 

Friday

·      “Making Small Talk” dialogues

·      Every Friday- Vocabulary Exercises

·      Begin sentence work- overview “Three Kinds of Sentences”

Begin sentences- “Sentence Assessment Pretest EF34”

·      Begin simple sentences

·      Listening fun

 

LATER

·      Word List 1.1 & 2.1

 

 

 

Paragraph

-one block of writing about one topic

-EF4- at least 100 words

-EF3- at least 80 words

 

FORMAT OF A PARAGRAPH

-         Use lined ruled paper (8 ½ X 11 inch paper) A4- not lined

-         Write in pen (blue or black ink)

-         Doublespace- write on every second line, skip a line

-         Write between the margins (red lines)

-         Full name and class in top righthand corner

-         Paper must be rightside up, three holes on the left

-         Indent the first word of the paragraph

 

Structure of the paragraphs was pretty good.

Sentence writing- lots of work to do!

 

Write a paragraph on the following topic:

Introduce your partner or introduce yourself.

 

*Let’s take a few minutes and correct and rewrite some of the sentences. I will come around and help.

 

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

I have a boy and a girl.

I have two kids: a boy and a girl.

 

I have 2 kids. I have two kids.

0-9 write out in letters

10+ use numerals

She has two three kids. She has 13 cousins.

 

I born was born in Hong Kong.

I am was born in Venezuala.

She has 24 years. She is 24. She is 24 years old.

She was born 24 years ago.

 

Mei came/moved/immigrated to Vancouver two years ago.

HIGH-FREQUENCY WORD- often used

immigrate(v)- move from one country to another country permanent

immigrant(n,person)- a person who enters a new country

immigration(n,idea)

 

LOW-FREQUENCY WORD- not often used

emigrate(v)- to leave a country

emigrant(n,person)- a person who leaves a country

 

You emigrated from Sri Lanka. You immigrated to Canada. You moved to Vancouver.

 

I immigrated to Canada two years ago. I immigrated to Canada in 2023.

 

I living am living in North Van. vf

I live in North Van.

 

 

**“Making Small Talk”

small talk- chatting, casual conversation,

IDIOM chew the fat- make small talk

We had a coffee and chewed the fat.

 

catch up- finding out what has been going on recently

Let’s grab a coffee and catch up.

How are you?

How are you doing?

What’s going on?

How’s work? How’s school? How’s your job?

How’s everyone at home?

Keeping busy?

Any plans for the weekend?

 

ONIGIRI YA, onigiri 545 W Broadway

 

networking- meeting people through business

 

dialogue- short conversation between two people

 

Let’s take a few minutes and practice the dialogues. Then we will say them out loud.