Monday, 20 October 2025

EF45 Class 32

 

Final two weeks

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Talk about replacement quiz and test.

·      Return Test3

Optional RW for 1 point

·      Practice noun clauses

Choose vocab for quiz, noun clauses

·      New dialogue “Making Home Improvements”

 

Tuesday

·      Presentations 1

·      Continue dialogue “Making Home Improvements”

·      Begin adjective clauses

·      Quiz4- noun clauses (last 30 minutes)

 

Wednesday

·      Presentations 2

·      Continue adjective clauses

·      Begin essay work EF5

 

Thursday

·      Presentations 3

·      Continue adjective clauses

Quiz Monday

·      Continue essay work

 

Friday

No SCHOOL

Professional Development Day

 

 

 

Final week

Monday

·      Quiz5 on adjective clauses

·      Essay work

 

Tuesday

·      Essay

 

Wednesday

 

Thursday

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test

Do you want to gamble with a quiz and/or test?

 

Friday-final day

·      One-on-one meetings

I will be creating final marks and comments.

 

 

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Test3 Paragraph narrative or descriptive (last 60m)

Phones and devices put away.

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

Paragraph at least seven sentences.

A. Write about a difficult decision you had to make in your life.

B. Describe the photograph.

 

 

 

 

#1 priority – Good sentences.

Simple, compound, and complex sentences.

-         punctuation

-         verb tense

-         verb form

-         articles

-         spelling

-         prepositions

-         basic sentence structure S+V

-         word form- vocabulary

There’s a lot to learn and practice.

 

Optional RW for 1 point. Pass it in today or first thing tomorrow.

Getting better. Keep working. Keep practicing.

 

 

She is wearing a hat. He is wearing a ring.

She is wearing makeup.

 

 

 

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Presentations

Pass in your writing (a few paragraphs) first thing on the day you are doing your talk.

I am going to sit in the back.

We can come up to the front one by one and talk to the class.

You can have some notes, but do not read off the page.

We might ask you some questions about your topic.

We will give some positive feedback on slips.

 

These will be fun and interesting. You will feel a bit nervous, but you’ll be fine.

 

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Noun Clauses

 

Next kind of sentence- complex sentence with a noun clause

 

Sentence styles:

-SIMPLE   SV   SSV   SVV   SSVV   Imperative   Interrogative

 

-COMPOUND      SV, SOBA SV.

EF56 level

SV; SV.

SV; TRANS, SV.

 

-COMPLEX

- adverb clauses   because   when   if   unless   although   until   after

- noun clauses    TODAY, this week

- adjective clauses   next week

 

 

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.

 

*believe + that

Mei believes that she will pass her driving test.

 

*know + that

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

 

*hope + that

Mei hopes that she will win the lottery.

 

*know + why

Molly doesn’t know why the baby is crying.

 

*know + what

Do you know what time it is?

 

* say + that

He said that the rock is too heavy to move.

 

*believe + that

She believes that she can be successful in Canada.

 

*understand + what

Do you understand what I mean?

 

*feel + that

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

 

 

 

CONTINUE

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’ OTHER WORDS who, whatever, whenever, if, whether, etc.

 

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

We will choose ten vocab words to review. I will choose six of them.

 

e.g. Write a sentence with a noun clause for each.

1. know      job

I know (that) you will get a great job.

 

I know that finding a job is very hard.

 

Three types of dependent clauses:

adverb clauses

noun clauses

adjective clauses

 

usage

She is happy because she got a new job. adverb cl

She wonders if she will like her new apartment. noun clause

She was talking to her neighbour who is 90 years old. adjective clause

 

Keeping them straight is a challenge.

 

 

 

He hopes that he will find new friends in Vancouver.

 

EXCEPTION

She knows how to knit.

We know how to get to the party.

He knows how to talk to people.

 

 

Let’s choose some verbs to review.

1.    think

2.    know

3.    hope

4.    believe

5.    remember

6.    forget

7.    say

8.    tell*

9.    shout

10.                       yell

 

say  She said that she would be late today.

tell She told me that she would be late today.

Mei always says that she is busy.

Did you say that you were from Iran?

Did you say that you were Iranian/Persian?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let’s choose some nouns to review.

1.    book

2.    house

3.    city

4.    problem

5.    car

6.    cold

7.    horse

8.    difficult

9.    colourful

10.                       costume



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New dialogue: Making Home Improvements

Let’s get into small groups (4-5 people)

Discuss Brainstorming and Vocabulary Preview

 

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