Wednesday, 29 October 2025

EF45 Class 38

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Talk about replacement quiz/test

·      Quiz6

·      New verb tense/ final verb tense: Present perfect verb tense

·      Continue dialogue “Making Home Improvements”

 

Thursday

·      Continue present perfect verb tense

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test

Test – 55m

Quiz- 25m

If you are going to do the quiz and/or the test, you will have lots of time.

If you’re not, you can go.

 

Friday-final day

·      One-on-one meetings

I will be creating final marks and comments.

Non-instruction day

 

 

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Tomorrow- Talk about optional replacement quiz and/or tes

 

Optional replacement quiz and/or test

You can replace one quiz and/or test with a new quiz or test.

You can replace one quiz, one test, both, or none.

 

 

 

OPTIONS:

1.    You can do a replacement quiz.

2.    You can do a replacement test.

3.    You can do both a replacement quiz and test.

4.    You can do neither.

 

Replacement quiz (6 sentences)- 25m

-         all sentence types- simple, compound, complex

-         all verb tenses that we learned, except present perfect

simple present, past and future & present and past progressive

 

You have to tell me which quiz you are replacing.

Quiz paper

“Please replace Quiz 2.”

If you forget to tell me, I will just add your replacement quiz to your marks.

You have to know which quiz you want to replace. Check your quiz marks and make a decision about whether to do the replacement quiz or not tomorrow.

 

 

Replacement test (paragraph)- 50m

-new topic

Test paper

“Please replace Test 1.”

If you forget to tell me, I will just add your replacement test to your marks.

You have to know which test you want to replace. Check your test marks and make a decision about whether to do the replacement test or not tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

If you want to do the replacement quiz and/or test, you can.

 

If you don’t want to do the replacement quiz and/or test, you can do something else.

 

 

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Quiz 5

Write a sentence with an adjective clause for each.

Pass in by 1:00.


1.    people        live

2.    business    open

3.    city              ocean

4.    moment    remember

5.    door            open

6.    idea             like

 

 

 

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Verb tenses:

SIMPLE- simple present, simple past, simple future

PROGRESSIVE- present progressive, past progressive

 

Next verb tense – present perfect – very useful

 

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

 

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

 

PRESENT PERFECT – started in the past, continues until now

 

VERY COMMON USAGE of present perfect

 

Molly has lived in Vancouver since 1998.

has lived – present perfect

 

Molly lives in Vancouver since 1998. Poor English level

Molly lived in Vancouver since 1998. Poor English level

 

Molly has lived in East Van since 2014. High English level

I have lived in my house since we moved from Tunisia in 2018.

 

She has been in Canada for two and a half years.

 

She has come to Canada since 2023. XXX

FIX

She came to Canada in 2023.  simple past

He arrived in Canada in 2023. simple past

 

*prepositions

come to a place

arrive in a place

She has moved since 2023. XXX

FIX

She moved here in 2023.

She moved here when she was young. COMPLEX SENT- ADV CL

 

She has lived here since she was young. COMPLEX SENT- ADV CL

 

They have moved in this city for 10 years. XXX

FIX

They have lived in this city for 10 years.

They have moved in this city for 10 years.

They moved to this city 10 years ago.  

ago- simple past

We had a break 20 minutes ago.

He called his sister two weeks ago.

 

OPTIONS FOR VOCAB

They have lived in this city for 10 years.

They have been in this city for 10 years.

They have resided in this city for 10 years.

 

reside(v) resident(person) residential(adj) residence(n)

She lives in a residential neighborhood.

He lives in a commercial area.

 

She was travelling to different countries when her mother got sick. past progressive verb tense

 

She has travelled to seven countries. present perfect

She has travelled to seven countries so far. present perfect

so far – present perfect

 

My day has been ok so far.

 

Her kids have enjoyed Grade 1 so far.

 

He has been married eight times so far.

 

Mie has passed all of her tests so far.

 

He has worked in the company for almost two years.

He has worked in the company for almost two years so far.

He has worked in the company for almost two years up to now.

 

The team has won all of their games so far.

 

She has studied English for three years.

She has studied English since 2022.

She has studied English since she moved to Canada.

I have studied English since I came to Canada in 2022.

 

I have studied English since I was a kid.

 

She has been happy since she got married.

She has been happy so far.

 

Jun has gone to the gym twice a week for the past year.

for the past year

for the past week

for the past two hours

for the past ten years

For the past year, the US has had a divisive president.

VOCAB divisive- people love him or hate him

Prime Minister Carney is not divisive.

 

 

 

** present perfect -two-word verb

Use the past participle

HANDOUT “Irregular Verb List: Present, Past and Pat Participle”

 

present                past                       participle

go                          went                     gone

eat                         ate                         eaten

We eat rice every day.

We ate some ice cream yesterday.

They have eaten lunch already.

They have had lunch already.

I have had lunch already. present perfect

 

We have eaten rice every day since we were born.

 

present                past                       participle

read                      read                      read

Mei reads a lot of books.

She read the paper today.

She hasn’t read her magazine yet.

Have you read the boss’ email yet?

The little girl has read all of the Disney stories.

 

 

I have had lunch already.

I am having lunch now.

 

I feel better today.

I felt sick last week.

I have felt sick for over a month.

 

 

 

 

He eats cookies every day.

She ate the ice cream.

We have eaten all of the treats.

We ate all of the treats.

 

We have finished our work.

We finished our work.

 

I’ve finished my test.

I have finish my test.

 

I finish my test. XXX

I always finish my work.

I always finish my tests on time.

 

My son has enjoyed reading the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” books.

“Captain Underpants”

 

drink           drank                    drunk

She drinks only one litre of water per day.

I drank two glasses of water yesterday.

I have drunk two litres of water so far today.

 

I have drunk water four times. XXX

I have drunk water four glasses of water.

He has eaten three times so far. little strange-sounding

He has taken his medication already.

He has taken his vitamins already.

 

He has had a salad three times a day for the last week.

 

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