Tuesday, 6 May 2025

P1 EF5 Class 8

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Review simple verb tense examples from homework

Quiz1 Wednesday

Explain structure of quiz

Choose vocabulary to review for the quiz

·      Continue “Golden Week”

·      Everyday dialogue “Asking for a Job Promotion”

 

Wednesday

·      Talk about topic sentences and grabbers for paragraphs

·      Overview of paragraph types

Begin narrative paragraphs

“Modes of Writing’ Narrative EF56”

·      Quiz1 (last 25m)

 

Thursday

·      Continue narrative writing

 

Friday or Monday

·      Test1 – narrative paragraph

·       

 

 

 

All of the quizzes will be the same structure and format- 5, 6 quizzes

 

MODEL QUIZ

 

Quiz 1

Write in pen

Write full name and class in top right corner.

Doublespace.

Write between the margins.

Phones and devices put away.

 

Write a sentence with an appropriate verb tense for each.

1.    SIMPLE PRESENT go    mall 

2.    SIMPLE PAST walk        trail

3.    SIMPLE FUTURE try     laptop

4.    SIMPLE PRESENT eat   lunch

5.    SIMPLE PAST talk          friend

6.    SIMPLE FUTURE visit   museum

1.    Sarah and Michelle go to the mall every weekend.

Jun goes to the mall, but he never buys anything.

I go to Tsawassen Mills mall because there are lots of sales.

2.    The hikers walked down the trail and saw a lot of wildlife.

3.    I will try to use my new laptop.

4.    We eat lunch together in the park.

We eat lunch together in the park, and then we go for a short walk.

5.    The friends talked about going to a movie.

Sarah and her friend talked and talked/laughed all day.

6.    We are going to visit the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.

Nice mix of sentences- simple, compound, complex.

 

“Top 100”


Let’s choose 10 verbs to review for the quiz.

1.    write

2.    buy

3.    run

4.    work

5.    wait

6.    help

7.    give

8.    show

9.    stand

10.                       pay

 

Let’s choose 10 nouns to review for the quiz.

1.    family

2.    student

3.    time

4.    game

5.    book

6.    day

7.    money

8.    party

9.    girl

10.                       school


 

 

 

I will choose one verb and one noun.

1.    SIMPLE PRESENT buy  game

I buy a hamburger after every game.

                                                                                       

 

 

“Golden Week”

Vocabulary Preview

1.golden opportunity-

Living here is a golden opportunity to make my life better.

Studying in SHEC is a golden opportunity to improve your English.

Interest rates going down are a golden opportunity to buy real estate.

2.emperor- leader of a empire

Japan has an emperor.

king, queen, sultan, supreme leader (North Korea), tsar

Did Anastasia escape?

 

dictator-

Ancient Rome had emperors.

Ancient Egypt has pharoahs.

 

3. A queen reigns over a country.

rain

4.rural – countryside, farmland

urban- city

I grew up in a rural place.

Abbottsford is pretty rural.

5.modern factories

China is the #1 industrialized country.

6.constitution

7.self-defence- protect yourself

 

 

All of the quizzes will be the same structure and format- 5, 6 quizzes

 

MODEL QUIZ

 

Quiz 1

Write in pen

Write full name and class in top right corner.

Doublespace.

Write between the margins.

Phones and devices put away.

 

Write a sentence with an appropriate verb tense for each.

7.    SIMPLE PRESENT go    mall 

8.    SIMPLE PAST walk        trail

9.    SIMPLE FUTURE try     laptop

10.                       SIMPLE PRESENT eat   lunch

11.                       SIMPLE PAST talk          friend

12.                       SIMPLE FUTURE visit   museum

7.    Sarah and Michelle go to the mall every weekend.

Jun goes to the mall, but he never buys anything.

I go to Tsawassen Mills mall because there are lots of sales.

8.    The hikers walked down the trail and saw a lot of wildlife.

9.    I will try to use my new laptop.

10.                       We eat lunch together in the park.

We eat lunch together in the park, and then we go for a short walk.

11.                       The friends talked about going to a movie.

Sarah and her friend talked and talked/laughed all day.

12.                       We are going to visit the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.

Nice mix of sentences- simple, compound, complex.

 

“Top 100”


Let’s choose 10 verbs to review for the quiz.

11.                       write

12.                       buy

13.                       run

14.                       work

15.                       wait

16.                       help

17.                       give

18.                       show

19.                       stand

20.                       pay

 

Let’s choose 10 nouns to review for the quiz.

11.                       family

12.                       student

13.                       time

14.                       game

15.                       book

16.                       day

17.                       money

18.                       party

19.                       girl

20.                       school

 

I will choose one verb and one noun.

2.    SIMPLE PRESENT buy  game

I buy a hamburger after every game.

 

 

 


NOUN MODIFYING A NOUN

groceries(n)

He will pick up some groceries.

He goes to a groceriesy store. a grocery store

 

Usually adjectives modify nouns.

big store adjective

 

Nouns can also modify nouns

shoes(n) shoe(n)

a shoe store - both nouns

 

a shoes store a shoe store

a groceries store a grocery store

a pet store

 

five years old

He is five years old.

He is a five years old kid. XXX

He is a five-year-old kid.   - hyphen

COMMON ERROR He is a five years old kid.

 

We went on a bus trip, and it was five hours.

We went on a five-hour bus trip.

 

The course is nine weeks long.

This is a nine-week course.

 

She bought a $900 phone.

She bought a nine-hundred-dollar phone.

She bought a phone for $900.

She bought a phone for nine hundred dollars.

 

Sounds like high-level authentic English.

 

She went on a two-hour hike last Saturday.

 

This is a one-liter bottle.

This is three-liter bottle.

This bottle holds three liters.

 

GRAMMAR BOOK – nouns modifying nouns – hyphen, hyphenated

 

 

 

 

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“Golden Week”

Read together and repeat.

 

paid time off- vacation time, paid vacation

time in lieu- work extra, no $, take time off later

bank hours/time- have some time for vacation, time off

 

unpaid time off- no $$

 

April 29- April twenty ninth

May 6- May sixth

May 1- May first

May 2- May second

May 3- May third

May 4- May fourth

May 5- May fifth

May 6- May sixth

etc

 

 

May 4- special day Star Wars Day

“May the Force be with you”

May the force- May the fourth

 

1947- nineteen forty seven

1867- eighteen sixty seven

2025- twenty twenty five, two thousand twenty five

 

2000 BC -BC before Christ, 4025 years old

2025 AD- anno domini

 

The emperor was born in 6 BC and died 78 AD. He was 84 years old when he died.

 

time

am AM- morning am “ante meridian”

 

pm PM- afternoon pm “post meridian”

The flight leaves at 6pm.

The flight arrives at 2am local time.

 

meridian – middle

ante- before

post-after

 

We went out for a post-game dinner.

Will you go for a post-class lunch?

 

We had a pre-class meeting.

She had a pre-dinner snack. She had some munchies.

 

their son’s future  one son

their sons’ futures  many sons

 

samurai – oldtime Japanese warriors

 

 

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Everyday dialogue “Asking for a Job Promotion”

Small chat-groups (4-5)

Warm-Up Questions

Vocabulary Preview

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