WI567 Class 8

 

Good afternoon.

 

Wednesday – Hump Day

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Quiz#1

·      Begin verb tenses – teach Overview of Verb Tenses + HANDOUT

·      Begin compound sentences

·      “What is a Paragraph” HANDOUT

 

Thursday

·      Attendance

·      Return Quiz#1

Go over

Optional RW for bonus point

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 2

·      Continue verb tenses

·      Continue compound sentences

·      Continue “What is a Paragraph”

·      Vocabulary exercise

 

Friday- no school for you

·      Professional Development Day- teacher learning day

 

Monday

·      Family Day- BC statutory holiday

No school anywhere

 

Tuesday- back in school

 

 

 

Quiz1

Devices away.

Doublespace

Full name and class

Write a simple sentence for each.

Pass in by 12:25.

1.    SV                          proud

2.    SSV                        skate

3.    SVV                        employee

4.    SSVV                      laugh

5.    Imperative           child

6.    Interrogative       disappointed

 

 

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Overview of the 12 verb tenses in English:

1.    SIMPLE PRESENT-habitual action, truth

everyday, always, usually, normally, generally, frequently, often. sometimes, occasionally, rarely, seldom, never

I brush my teeth everyday. I brush my teeth once a day. I brush my teeth twice a day.

I wake up and take a shower. SVV

We go to school every weekday.

I drink coffee. She drinks tea.

She drinks two litres of water a day.

-truth, fact

The earth orbits the sun. The earth rotates around its axis.

axle- wheel, axle jump

Yuzuru Hanyu can do a quadruple axle.

quadruple- 4

triple- 3

double- 2

single-1

zero- 0

quarter – ¼, 25 cents

quad- 4

 

money

1c cent, penny

5c nickel

10c dime

25c quarter

$1 coin loonie

$2 coin toonie   two+loonie

$5  five-dollar bill

bill- paper

US dollar SLANG ‘the Greenback’

 

Victoria is the capital of BC.

She has two/no kids.

 

** #1 error- subject verb agreement **

She go to school. XXX She goes to school.

Mei like ice cream. XXX

Mei likes ice cream.

Mei and Shira like ice cream.

 

We live for our children. We don’t live for ourselves. object pronoun

There is one desk.

There is one desk and two chairs.

There are two chairs and one desk.

 

 

2.    SIMPLE PAST- one event finished in the past, earlier today, yesterday, last week, month, year, 20 years ago, 60 million years ago

Mohammad watched a movie yesterday. 

last night  

yesterday afternoon

I got a ticket. I went through a red light at an intersection. SIMPLES

I got a ticket because I went through a red light at an intersection. COMPLEX

I went to church and studied the Bible. SVV

I played with my friends by the river.

Dinosaurs roamed the earth 60 million years ago.

roam- walk around

On Saturday, we roamed around downtown.

We went sightseeing. We saw some famous places in Vancouver: the Steamclock, Gastown, Capilano Suspension Bridge, UBC, etc.

Every Xmas, my brother gets tickets for the whole family for Capilano Suspension Bridge from his company.

 

Fantastic! Awesome! Amazing! Great!

Stunning! extremely beautiful

 

Dragons are from mythology.

mythology- ancient stories that explain the world

Greek sun God- Apollo

Chinese mythology- 10 suns – Ho Yi shot nine of the suns with arrows.

myth/legend

religion? myth or reality?

#1 error – She was go  XXX   He was talk

Ifrah slipped on the ice.

Many calendars are based on the lunar cycle. lunar-moon

The dinosaurs lived on the earth millions of years ago.

 

REVIEW: simple present and simple past

 

Let’s practice writing some sentences using simple present and simple past.

 

enjoy(v)   She enjoys window shopping.

joy(n)   He felt joy when his daughter was born.

enjoyable(adj)   Talking with my friend is really enjoyable.

joyful(adj)   The little girl was joyful when she met Taylor Swift.