Thursday, 12 June 2025

P2 EF56 Class 33

 

Good afternoon, everyone.

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Next verb tense- present perfect

·      Continue opinion writing

·      Begin essays

·      Modals/modal auxiliaries


 

Friday- Graduation

I have to set up the PA for grad. PA- speakers and microphones

I have to leave class at 1.

We will have a class from 12-1.

Graduates wear a graduating gown and a mortarboard.

 

·      Test3- paragraph, final paragraph?

·      Check in for the presentations, 1pt

·      Return Quiz6

Go over

Optional RW for 1 bonus point

·      “Self-Assessment Reflections” Week 7

·      Begin adjective clauses – last kind of clause

·      Continue essay work

 

Week 8

Quiz7- adjective clauses (final quiz)

Spoken presentations (over three days)

Essay work

 

Week 9

Monday

·      Review

 

Tuesday, June 24

·      Optional replacement test and/or quiz

Will explain more later.

 

Wednesday, June 25

Final day

·      Final marks and meetings


 

 

wrinkles- laugh lines, crows feet

 

 a facelift

eye job, eye lift

plasty- plastic surgery

 

subdermal – under the skin

 

Verb tenses:

SIMPLE- simple present, simple past, simple future (modal)

PROGRESSIVE- present progressive, past progressive, future progressive- less commonly used

 

Confusion about simple present

-overusing simple present – habitual action

 

 

Next verb tense – present perfect – very useful

TIME FRAME- present perfect – started in the past, continues up to now

span of time – from then until now

 

Timeline   ------------------------------à

 

present perfect – doesn’t mean Perfect!’ perfection, just a word, from Latin

 

PRESENT PERFECT – started in the past, continues until now, span of time

 

VERY COMMON USAGE of present perfect

Molly has lived in Vancouver since 1998.

has lived – present perfect verb tense

 

auxiliary verb ‘to have’  OR ‘to be’   +  past participle

 

PRESENT              PAST                      PARTICIPLE

live                         lived                      lived

put                        put                        put

set                         set                         set

read                      read                      read

drive                      drove                    driven

 

 

eat                         ate                         eaten

She eats an apple every day. SIMPLE PRESENT VERB TENSE

She ate an apple yesterday. SIMPLE PAST VERB TENSE

She will eat/is going to eat an apple tonight. SIMPLE FUTURE VERB TENSE

She is eating an apple right now. PRESENT PROGRESSIVE VERB TENSE

She was eating an apple at lunchtime when she found a worm. PAST PROGRESSIVE VERB TENSE

IDIOM An apple keeps the doctor away.

She has eaten her apple already. PRESENT PERFECT VERB TENSE

 

 

No substantial difference in meaning. Both convey the same meaning.

She has eaten her apple already. PRESENT PERFECT VERB TENSE

She ate her apple already. SIMPLE PAST VERB TENSE

 

He has eaten an apple already, but he wants to have another one.

Ok, but not necessary.

 

 

She has lived in Vancouver since 2010. PRESENT PERFECT VERB TENSE

She lived in Vancouver since 2010. XXX SIMPLE PAST VERB TENSE

‘lived’ and ‘since 2010’ don’t go together well

FIXES

She lived in Vancouver from 2010 to 2018. SIMPLE PAST VERB TENSE

She lived in Vancouver from 2010 until now. SIMPLE PAST VERB TENSE

FIX

She has lived in Vancouver from 2010 until now. PRESENT PERFECT VERB TENSE

She has lived in Vancouver from 2010 since she was young.

**NOTE: Present perfect means from the past until the current moment.

We have been in class since 12:00.

We are in class since 12:00.

He has worked at the restaurant for a year and a half.

He has worked at the restaurant since March, 2024.

He has worked at the restaurant for a year and a half already.

He has worked at the restaurant since three years ago for three years.

I moved to have moved have lived/been in Canada since last year.

 

I have already lived in Canada for one year already.

I have already been at my job for one year already.

I have already been a mother for one year already.

I have already been sick for one year already.

I have already been playing badminton for one year already.

She has already been married for one year already.

CHOICE:

I have already lived in Canada for one year.

OR

I have lived in Canada for one year already.

 

I have already had/eaten lunch.

I have had lunch already.  aux + participle

 

She has been/gone to Mexico several times.

She has visited Mexico several times.

She moved to Mexico. She moved back to Iran.

 

 

I moved to Canada last year.

 

He has been working at the restaurant for a year and a half. PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE- next

 

PRESENT              PAST                      PARTICIPLE

work                     worked                 worked

 

Difference language systems- different concepts of time

e.g. Chinese – no verb tense like English

I finish yesterday. I finish tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

She lives in Vancouver since 2010. XXX SIMPLE PRESENT VERB TENSE

 

 

 

PAST PERFECT VERB TENSE- rarely used

She lived in Vancouver from 2010 to 2018. SIMPLE PAST VERB TENSE

She had lived in Vancouver from 2010 to 2018. PAST PERFECT VERB TENSE- GRAMMAR BOOK

past perfect- began in the past, ended in the past

SECRET!! Native English don’t use past perfect very much. We usually substitute simple past.

She had lived lived in Jordan for five years.

She had lived lived in Jordan from 2018 to 2023.

 

You can choose your level of formality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REVIEW:

SIMPLE PRESENT          Mei lives in Canada now.

SIMPLE PAST                 Mei lived in the US until last year.

SIMPLE FUTURE           Mei will move to Italy next year.

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE        Mei is living in a small condo downtown.

PAST PROGRESSIVE                Mei was living in the US when Trump was

elected.

PRESENT PERFECT                  Mei has lived in Vancouver since 2010.

                                                   Mei has lived in Vancouver for 15 years.

PAST PERFECT                         Mei had lived in California for two years.

Substitute SIMPLE PAST        Mei lived in California for two years.

 

I have been here for nine years. PRESENT PERFECT

 

I am here for nine years. XXX Not an appropriate verb tense for this idea.

 

**AUTHENTIC, EVERYDAY ENGLISH

He is going hiking tomorrow. present prog to suggest future

The bus is coming right now.

The bus is coming in 15 minutes. The bus is going to come in 15 minutes. The bus will come in 15 minutes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GOOD PHRASES TO USE FOR PRESENT PERFECT

- from the past until now

already

yet

for TIME, for two weeks

since BEGINNING TIME, since she was a kid, since 2017

 

She has had breakfast already. PRESENT PERFECT

He hasn’t had breakfast yet.

We have played this game since we were kids.

She has worked at Apple for two years.

 

I have done the work already. PRESENT PERFECT

 

I haven’t done the work yet. PRESENT PERFECT

I still haven’t done the work. PRESENT PERFECT

 

She has had    has-aux verb    had-participle

 

PRESENT              PAST            PARTICIPLE

have/has              had              had

 

 

We haven’t done the quiz yet.

We have done the reflections already.

She hasn’t called me yet. She still hasn’t called me.

 

still- negative sound to it, judgmental

You still haven’t taken out the garbage?

Not yet.

 

Christmas Cake- Dec 25

 

EXAMPLES:

I haven’t finished my homework yet. finish finished finished

I still haven’t finished my homework.

I haven’t bought my lunch yet. buy bought bought

I haven’t left my house yet.

I haven’t done my makeup yet. You still haven’t done your makeup!

 

I haven’t found a job yet. Sounds great.

I don’t have a job. Sounds OK

 

She hasn’t mastered English yet.

I have ate eaten my lunch already. eat   ate   eaten

I ate my lunch already. Sounds Ok.

 

I had my lunch already. Sounds OK. SIMPLE PAST

I have had my lunch already. Sounds great. PRESENT PERFECT

 

She hasn’t cleaned her bedroom yet / in three weeks / since November.

She has cleaned her bedroom already.

clean   cleaned   cleaned

 

She hasn’t attended the Red Cross course this year.

Red Cross- First Aid- emergency- CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation),

“Stayin Alive”- the tempo of the song

AR (artificial respiration)

 

 

“Present Perfect Tense Exercises”

Try some for tomorrow.

 

 

 

Essay work (EF5 and above)

 

sentences—paragraphs—essays – papers (college, university: 5, 10, 20 pages) – thesis/graduating essay- graduating from degree (80-120 pages) – book (300-600 pages)- non-fiction, fiction

apply to postsec- essay

 

** sentences- sentence types: simple, compound, complex, compound-complex- next step

** GOOD SENTENCE WRITING IS THE FOUNDATION OF ALL WRITING

Building vocab, word form, verb form, preposition, phrasal verbs

Developing authentic(natural) phrasing

 

You picked a hard road to walk down. You are brave and strong! You are scared and weak? We have to be.

Have hope and vision and a target.

IDIOM Never say never. Have resolve!

 

 

** paragraphs – structure    Grabber

Topic sentence

Supporting sentences,

Concluding sentence

(150-200 words)

 

- format                - font size, doublespace, indent, paper orientation, name and class

 

** essay -multi-paragraph writing, 3, 5, 6, 7 paragraphs on a topic

 

ENGLISH 12 EXAM Writing prompt: “in essay form” “in paragraphs” “multi-paragraph” – means write an essay

“at least 300 words”  sweetspot, the Goldilocks zone (300-400ww)

 

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