Wednesday, 15 October 2025

EF45 Class 30

 

Email – full name and class

          -name of person or place

          -deadline was 7pm

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Verb tense review- so far

·      Begin noun clauses

·      New dialogue “Handling a Medical Emergency”

·      Time for preparing presentations

·      Test3 Friday- narrative or descriptive paragraph

 

Thursday

·      Presentation check-in tomorrow

·      Continue noun clauses

Quiz Monday

·      New dialogue “Handling a Medical Emergency”

 

Friday

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 7

·      Vocabulary

·      Presentation check-in

·      Test3 Paragraph narrative or descriptive (last 60m)

I will give two topics: one narrative, one descriptive. You can choose which one you want to write about.

 

Monday

·      Quiz noun clauses

 

Tuesday

·      Presentations 1

·      Begin adjective clauses

 

Wednesday

·      Presentations 2

·      Continue adjective clauses

 

 

Thursday

·      Presentations 3

·      Continue adjective clauses

 

 

 

Verb tenses:

PLO C1

past, present, future tenses, including simple and progressive, present perfect

 

SO FAR

-simple present

 

-simple past

 

-simple future

 

-present progressive

 

-past progressive

 

Exercise 4

1.    were standing

 

 

 

REVIEW OF VERB TENSES

move(v)

-simple present

She moves her body every day.

We move a lot of boxes every day.

They often move to different cities. They move a lot.

 

-simple past

He moved to a new city last week.

I moved my keys, and now I can’t find them.

 

-simple future

I will move to a new seat because the people behind me are talking.

She is going to move to Montreal; however, the weather is freezing.

 

-present progressive

I crushed the bug, but it is still moving.

Your story is moving(adj). emotional- makes people feel deeply

The movie is moving(adj). I cried at the end.

The police car is moving slowly down the street; I think they are following me.

Her hair is not moving even though she is jumping; she uses a lot of mousse/hairspray/product/gel.

hair colour- dye-permanent

The man has salt and pepper hair.

The man has a wig / hairpiece.

He has hairplugs.

He has a combover.

 

-past progressive

Mei was moving her baby when she fell down the stairs. She was ok. The baby was fine. They landed on her husband.

He was moving a heavy box, and he tweaked his back.

The servers were moving all of the tables when the manager arrived and told them (that) the reservation was cancelled. NOUN CLAUSE

 

He tweaked his son’s nose.

He flicked his friend’s ear.

He gave him a wet willy.

 

Verb tenses- one more verb tense =present perfect- next week

 

 

 

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Noun Clauses

 

Next kind of clause- complex sentence with a noun clause

 

Sentence styles so far:

-SIMPLE   SV   SSV   SVV   SSVV   Imperative   Interrogative

 

-COMPOUND      SV, SOBA SV.

EF56 level

SV; SV.

SV; TRANS, SV.

 

-COMPLEX

- adverb clauses           because   when   while if   unless?   although   until after before

- noun clauses    TODAY, this week

- adjective clauses   next week, last kind of clause

 

 

Noun clauses

-used with verbs that have to do with thinking or your brain/mind:

e.g. think, know, hope, understand, believe, feel, remember, forget

 

-used with verbs that have with speech

e.g. say, tell, remind, whisper, shout, yell

 

We most often use these pronouns: that why how

 

Two pools of words:

A-VERBS: think, know, hope, understand, believe, feel, remember, forget, say, tell, remind, whisper, shout, yell

 

B-PRONOUNS: that   why   how

 

To write a noun clause take an “A” and put it with a “B” word.

A+B=noun clause

 

*think + that

Sarah thinks that it will rain tomorrow.

I think that the package is not for me.

I don’t think that the package is for me.

She thinks that her husband will make dinner.

 

*believe + that

She believes that she can be successful in Canada.

Mei believes that she will pass her driving test.

I believe that my daughter can learn English very fast.

She believes that the vacation will be good for her family.

She believes that the vacation will be good for her family’s relationships.

I believe that I will be rich because of my husband’s crypto trades.

He believes in God. SIMPLE SENT

He believes that God is real. NOUN CL

 

 

VOCAB agnostic(adj) undecided, not sure

atheist- do not believe at all

She is a believer.

deist- believe in a god

 

*know + that

Sarah knows that English is very important for her success in Canada.

She knows that she has to get a job.

I know that the teacher is serious.

IDIOM go above and beyond- do more than is necessary, put in extra effort

We all know that finding a job is hard. finding(noun,gerund)

 

Gerund- noun ‘ing’, looks like a verb, is a noun

I like to ski.

I like skiing.

Skiing is fun.

Playing piano is relaxing.

 

*hope + that

Mei hopes that she will win the lottery.

I hope that I will pass the class.

She hopes that she will speak English fluently.

I hope that we can take our break.

 

*know + why

He knows why Junko is angry at Mike.

Molly doesn’t know why the baby is crying.

I don’t know why I can’t remember new vocabulary.

She knows she can’t find a job.

 

*know + what

Do you know what time it is?

Do you know what?

Do you know how much it cost?

Do you know what the price is?

I know what I want.

Do you know what you want?

I don’t know what’s good.

 

* say + that

He said that the rock is too heavy to move.

She said that her exam was really difficult.

She said that her husband is an idiot.

He is saying that the rock is too heavy to move.  

 

 

*understand + what

Do you understand what I mean?

He can’t understand what I am saying.

He understood what I was teaching.

He doesn’t understand what she means.

 

*feel + that

Joan feels that her daughter is not doing as well as she could be in school.

I feel that I am under the weather today.

IDIOM under the weather- feel sick

 

Continue tomorrow- practice

 

 

 

 

 

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New dialogue “Handling a Medical Emergency”

 

Small groups- practice the dialogues

 

I’m out of breath. – after running

I got the wind knocked out of me. - hit in the stomach

 

fainted- passed out

 

collapse- fall on the ground unconscious

The old man collapsed.

 

Her airway is blocked.

 

IDIOM get into – eat or drink something that you should not

The little kid got into the Hallowe’en candy.

 

I think that she took some pills. -on purpose

take a pill, take medicine  eat a pill, eat medicine

 

rash-  itching skin, turns red

swollen – puffed up

My eyes swelled up.

 

abdomen- stomach, middle

abdominal(adj)

 

seizure-convulsions- epilepsy

 

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