Wednesday, 15 October 2025

EF23 Class 30

 

Today’s agenda

·      Attendance

·      Talk about spoken presentations, next week

·      Continue verb tenses, Quiz5 tomorrow

Prepare vocabulary to review

·      New dialogue “Talking to a Landlord”

 

Thursday

·      Earthquake Drill 10:16

BC-wide, all schools, colleges, universities across BC

drill- practice

 

·      Quiz5- verb tenses

·      Begin new type of verb- Modals/Modal Auxiliaries

·      New dialogue “Talking to a Landlord”

 

Friday

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 7

·      Vocabulary

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Monday

·      “Phrasal Verbs” HANDOUT

 

Tuesday

·      Spoken presentations 1

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Wednesday

·      Spoken presentations 2

 

Thursday

·      Spoken presentations 3

 

 

 

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Spoken/Oral Presentation: X/10

Next Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

 

These are fun and interesting.

 

Choose one of the topics:

What is your favourite place in your home country?

Who is a person who you know who you look up to?

 

 

There will be two parts to this project:

 

1.    WRITTEN- a couple of paragraphs (2, 3 paragraphs)

-Write about the place or the person.

-Write about your relationship to this place or person.

 

2.    SPOKEN (3-5 minutes)

On your presentation day, you will tell the class about this place or person and your relationship to it or them. You will come to the front of the class. You can take a few written notes in case you forget something. However, no reading. Also, please, do not recite a memorized speech.

You can practice at home. Time yourself.

 

Here are some possible topics to focus on:

The name of the place

Where the place is

When you went there

Who you went with

What the scenery was like

What you did there

What your memories are of the place

 

                     Who the person is

                     Information about the person

Where you knew them

What you did together

What you like about them

What you learned from them

What your memories are of the person

 

Right now, think about what person or place you want to tell us about.

 

ACTION

Step 1- Choose the place or person that you would like to talk about. Email the name of the place or person to me by tonight 7PM. 7PM is the deadline.

ahaley@vsb.bc.ca  (1pt)

Remember to put your full name and class in the subject line of all emails to the teacher.

 

Step 2- Sign up for a presentation time.

 

Step 3- Begin to brainstorm ideas. Then begin to write.* We will take some class time to work on this.

 

*You could get ChatGPT to write this for you in .003 seconds. Hopefully, you will take this as an opportunity to do some organization, planning, and writing on your own. Of course, the usual VSB and SHEC policies regarding plagiarism and academic honesty apply. If I see that your work is plagiarized or translated, or AI-generated. it will get a 0 and a letter in your file.ope

I know what your writing looks like.

 

 

 

 

 

This will be a nice challenge, writing and speaking to the class.

Some people like to show some photos. You can use your laptop or phone.

We can check the tech any day before you present.

The projector is a bit old. If the projector doesn’t work with your phone, maybe you email your pictures to a classmate whose phone works with the projector.

 

We all want to hear what you have to say. We are on your side.

We will give helpful feedback to each person.

We are positive and supportive of each other.

 

Marks x/10-

1 point email by tonight 7PM

                     1 point check-in on Friday

4 points for the writing

                     4 points for the speaking

 

FAQ (Frequency Asked Questions)

-Will we do preparation work in class?

We will take some class time, and you will have to do much of it outside of class.

-Can I show pictures or videos?

Yes, absolutely. You can use your own computer or phone.

We can use the LCD projector to project them on the screen.

We can test the tech any day this week to make sure it works.

I have a C port and an HTML connector.

 

-When do I pass in the writing?

Pass it in first thing on the day you present.

 

 

 

**

Earthquake Drill- practice

Vancouver is in an earthquake zone.

Chile, Japan, Iran, Afghanistan, Mexico, China, Turkey

10/16 October 16, 10:16am

We will do our quiz first thing: 9:20am

 

Earthquake Drill

-         sound over the PA

-         hide under the table for one minute

-         We will not evacuate the building.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Quiz5 tomorrow- six sentences

 

Verb tenses:

1.    simple present

2.    simple past

3.    simple future

4.    present progressive

 

Choose ten verbs to review for the quiz. I will choose six of them.


1.    go

2.    play

3.    move

4.    run

5.    buy

6.    walk

7.    spend

8.    make

9.    save

10.                       eat


 

Let’s take a few minutes and practice the past, present, future, and present progressive forms of these verbs.

s. present  s. past         s. future                                              pres. prog.

go                went           will go/am going to go           am going

play             played        will play/is going to play                 am playing

moved        moved        will move/are going to move          am moving

run              ran              will run                                                is running

buy              bought       will buy                                               are buying

walk            walked       will walk                                             is walking

spend         spent          will spend                                           am spending

make          made          will make                                            is making

save            saved          will save                                              are saving

eat               ate               will eat                                                is eating

 

Choose ten vocab words to review for the quiz. I will choose six of them.


1.    room

2.    family

3.    week

4.    day

5.    friend

6.    office

7.    book

8.    game

9.    people

10.                       dinner


 

Example:

1.    people        run-simple past

Two people ran to the bus, but it left.

*You can write a mix of simple, compound, and complex sentences.

1.    people        run-simple present

Most people run in groups around Stanley Park.

People run because they like to be healthy.

Some people run, but other people walk around the park.

 


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