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Attendance
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Return Quiz4
Go over
RW for bonus point
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Midterm recommendations meetings- first half of the class, alphabetical order
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“Ordering at a Restaurant”
Thursday
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Midterm recommendations meetings- second half of
the class, alphabetical order
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Begin new verb tense- present
progressive/present continuous
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Continue “Ordering at a Restaurant”
Friday
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Continue new verb tense- present
progressive/present continuous
e.g. She is
walking down the sidewalk.
Monday, October 13
NO SCHOOL
Thanksgiving Day
Tuesday, Oct 14
First day of registration for Nov quarter.
You will get an email from the school on Tuesday morning.
You can register using the link in that email.
I will explain how to register on that day.
Wednesday and Thursday-
I will give you midterm recommendations for November term.
We will have a brief meeting at my desk.
Half the class Wednesday; half the class Thursday.
We will look at your marks so far:
Quizzes1-4 x/6
Test1 x/12 x/6 DOUBLED x/12
RW 1 pt
each
Spoken 1 x/10
MARK %
I will tell you which level you should register for next
quarter.
This is all based on the PLOS.
ORAL “engage in conversation” “clearly express ideas and feelings”
WRITING “communicate meaning by using conventions of
language” “simple and compound sentences” “past, present and future tenses,
including simple and progressive”
If you are ready for the next level, you will get a
recommendation for the next level.
If you are not yet ready for the next level, you will get a
recommendation to stay at this level.
If you are late and absent often, or if you inactive in
class, you might have to have a meeting with an advisor to discuss your options
at SHEC.
Often people will stay in a level one, two, maybe three
times. It takes time to learn new language.
I want you to win!
We want you to win!
We all want to have success.
Weekly “Self-Assessment Reflection” What is going well?
What
is next to improve?
**
Midterm/Interim Recommendations-
We are past at the halfway point in the term. We have only three
and a half weeks left.
Registration for November courses will begin Tuesday, October
14th. 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 on that day. I will
demonstrate how to register.
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.
Today and tomorrow, I will give you a midterm recommendation for
which English class you should register for in November. If you are not going
to take a class in November, you can use the midterm rec to register for next
January when registration opens.
Today and tomorrow, we will have short one-on-one chats 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 until today.
“So far’ means ‘up to now’.
I make comments about ORAL and WRITTEN for each student. Also, I
will make a comment about NEXT STEPS. The comments are based on the PLOs.
I use the vocabulary for your level:
EMERGING DEVELOPING PROFICIENT
EXTENDING
REMINDER: Teachers in BC use this vocabulary for assessment.
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
Unfortunately, I can’t email the comments to you. The school
software will not do that. If you want a copy of the comments, you can take a
picture of the comments on your phone. These comments will eventually be on
your final report card.
The interim/midterm recommendation will be based on the quizzes
and tests you have done so far this term. Also, you have a spoken mark out of 10
based on how much speaking you do in class. Plus there are points for rewrites.
REMINDER:
Tests are worth double what quizzes are worth.
Quiz X/6 = X/6
Test X/6 = X/12
Optional RW 1 pt each
Spoken1 X/10
**At SHEC, we want the strongest students to move up.
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. We want 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.
NOTE: At the end of the quarter,the passmark is 50%. That is your
final mark on the last day.
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.
The final few weeks of the course:
For the final three and a half 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. Plus, if time, we will do a presentation
worth 10 points. EF56- Also, there will be an essay.
IMPORTANT: 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.
This is just past the halfway point.
OPTIONS for registration- Stay at your current level or move up to
the next level
EF2 – EF2 or EF3
EF3- EF3 or EF4
You can figure out roughly your own average right now, except for
spoken. Add up your
quizzes and tests. Guess at your spoken mark.
We will talk at our one-on-one meetings.
**
Quiz4
Take a few pieces of lined, ruled paper.
Dividers.
Phones and devices away.
Write a complex sentence for each.
Pass it in by the end of class.
1. because live
Mei lives in Canada because her family is here.
Mei lives in Canada because Canada is a free country.
2. if buy
If you buy a new phone, you will have no money.
You will have no money if you buy a new phone.
I will go to buy some
food if it won’t doesn’t rain. will
not does not
weather future if If
it does not snow/rain/hail
I don’t walk to school because it rains. is raining.
is raining – new verb tense- present progressive
*Learn present progressive today
3. when family
Sarah is happy when her family visits.
Her family is close.
family- singular, collective noun e.g. class, team, committee
Her family members are close. The people in her family are
close.
The people in the class are hardworking.
The class are hardworking.
Three people are in the car.
persons- very unusual, not commonly used
The cost per person is $50.
in-person- meeting with a real person, face-to-face
These classes are in-person. We can also have online classes.
as a parent- from my perspective as a parent, have knowledge
As a parent, I feel bad for those poor kids.
As an accountant, you should pay your taxes.
A as in apple.
B as in banana.
She is growing as a person. – becoming more mature, developing
a robust personality
After coming to Canada, I feel I have grown as a person.
My family was close when we were in Iran.
VOCAB close- physically near, emotionally tight
4. after walk
After I ate dinner, I walked around the park.
I was tired after I walked in the park.
I am tired after I listen to my mother-in-law.
I will cook dinner after I walk home.
I drink water after I walk in the garden. SIMPLE PRESENT
I drank water after I walked in
the garden. SIMPLE PAST
5. before read
She needs to put on her glasses before she reads the/a book.
Before you read the story, look at the pictures.
Before I read the book, I had a nap.
6. because school
I go to school because I want to learn English.
SENTENCE TYPES SO FAR
Simple
Compound
Complex- adverb clauses
EF45
Complex- noun clauses
Complex- adj clauses
Examples of complex sentences with noun clauses:
Mei said that she will be late.
He thinks that the ring is too expensive.
We know why your sister is upset.
NOTE: Why is your sister happy? SIMPLE SENT
I don’t know why is my sister is happy.
Will she be late?
Mei said that will she will be late.
Examples of complex sentences with adjective clauses:
Jun who is my good friend likes to play football.
Mei has a dog that is very cute.
Those are all of the sentence types there are.
**
“Ordering at a Restaurant”
Let’s try the dialogues.
Let’s take five minutes and practice. Then we can perform
them.
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