P2 EF6 WI567 Class 2

 

Today’s agenda

·      Attendance

·      Course overview- handout

·      Distribute, explain Prescribed Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

·      Small group chatting- icebreaker

Choose one group-mate to introduce. You will introduce this person to the class tomorrow.  

·      Student Questionnaire

 

Friday

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 1

Link to PLOs

·      “Jon Meets Amy” idiomatic English

·      Introductions of classmates

·      Talk about paragraph form

·      Sentence Overview HANDOUT

Begin sentence work

·      Listening fun

 

Monday

·      Pass-in writing, not for marks, practice paragraph

·      Sentence work

 

 

 

 ***

This is an English-only classroom.

 

 

 

**

Ministry of Education in BC

from www.bced.gov.bc.ca

 

PLOs “Prescribed Learning Outcomes”

Every Foundations course has PLOs.

 

-guidelines for what I have to teach

-areas of focus

-areas to explore in the course

 

Explore vocabulary

 

Prescribed Learning Outcomes

-prescribed(adj)- like an order, mandatory, not an option

-prescription(noun)

A doctor prescribes(v) some medicine. – need to take, tells you

 

Some teachers teach prescriptive grammar. –hard grammar rules

who/whom

past perfect verb tense

 

Some teachers teach descriptive grammar. –soft grammar guidelines

 

 

-learning(verb,adj,noun) – synonyms- knowledge(n), study(v), understanding(n), discover(v), research, educating, developing, growing, getting better, explore, improve, increase, comprehension

 

-outcome(n)- result, find, discover, as a result, finish, end, conclude, completed, complete, therefore, final, sum up, at the end, what you got, aftermath, summation, summative 

 

PLOs (Prescribed Learning Outcomes) – the things that we should be able to do by the end of the course.

 

The PLOS are opportunities for growth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our PLOS- goals for the course.

HOMEWORK Looked over for homework

A.ORAL LANGUAGE

B.READING AND VIEWING

C.WRITING AND REPRESENTING

D.EVIDENCE OF THINKING

 

 

A1 – engage with others in sustained conversation

communicate ideas on a variety of topics

describe diverse points of view

 

C1- communicate meaning by using conventions of writing

-simple, compound, and complex sentence structures

-past, present, and future verb tenses, including simple, progressive, present prefect

 

 

BIG QUESTIONS to think about when you read through them

1.    Which PLOs feel most important to you? Which ones resonate with you? Which ones stand out to you as being relevant to your life?

resonate(v)- vibrate, shake, has deep meaning, feel deeply

relevant- related, connected to, important, meaningful

 

2.    Which of the PLOs do you already do well? Which ones are your strengths. Which one are you already good at?

-PROFICIENT/EXTENDING

 

3.    Which of the PLOs do you want to improve upon? Which ones reveal some weakness that could strengthen? Which ones do feel would be worthwhile working on?

-         EMERGING, DEVELOPING

 

 

 

**

Small-group chatting

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

We can chat about ourselves.

1.    Name

2.    Home

3.    Family

4.    Travel

5.    Job

6.    Hobbies

7.    Future plans

This will be a relaxed opportunity to do some chatting in English.