Thursday, 18 December 2025

EF12SL12 Class 27

 

Today’s Agenda


·      Attendance

·      Return Quiz 5

Go over

Optional rewrite for one point

·      New vocabulary

“100 Most Common Nouns”

“100 Most Common Adjectives”

·      One-on-one meetings to discuss midterm recommendations. We will talk face-to-face about which course you should register for in January.

·      NEW TOPIC Begin different forms of simple sentences

 

Friday

·      Final day before Winter Break

 

*Two-week Winter Break*

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Midterm/Interim Recommendations-

 

We are past the halfway point in the term. We have only just over three weeks left.

 

Registration for Quarter 3 courses will begin Monday, January 5th. You will be able to register via the South Hill website as usual. You will be emailed a link on to follow in order to register.

I will show the class how to register on that day. I will demonstrate how to register.

 

South Hill

4 quarters + summer course per year:

Quarter 1   September – November (nine weeks)

Quarter 2  November – January (nine weeks)

Quarter 3   February – April (nine weeks)

Quarter 4   April – June (nine weeks)

Summer     July-Aug (five weeks)

 

In order to register, you need a recommendation from your teacher.

The midterm recommendation is a snapshot or picture of how you are doing at this moment, based on your work so far.

 

Today and tomorrow, I will give you a midterm recommendation for which English class you should register for next quarter. If you are not going to take a class next quarter, you can use the midterm rec to register for in the following when registration opens.

 

Today and tomorrow, we will have short one-on-one chats at my desk. We will talk about how things are going so far in this course and what your next course should/could be. By ‘so far’, I mean we have finished until today. “So far’ means ‘up to now’.

 

I will put your recommendation into a spreadsheet for the advisors. I make comments about ORAL and WRITTEN for each student. On the final report, I will make a comment about NEXT STEPS. The comments are based on the PLOs.

 

I use the vocabulary for your level:

EMERGING   DEVELOPING   PROFICIENT   EXTENDING

REMINDER: Teachers in BC use this vocabulary for assessment.

New BC Ministry of Education marking categories:

Emerging – first steps, beginning, not ready to move up

Developing- partial understanding, getting better

Proficient- have skills and abilities

Extending- sophisticated understanding and ability

 

Unfortunately, I can’t email the comments to you. The school software will not do that. If you want a copy of the comments, you can take a picture of the comments on your phone. These comments will eventually be on your final report card.

 

The interim/midterm recommendation will be based on the quizzes and tests you have done so far this term. Also, you have a spoken mark out of 10 based on how much speaking you did in class for the first four weeks. Plus there are points for rewrites.

 

REMINDER:

Tests are worth double what quizzes are worth.

Quiz  X/6 = X/6

Test  X/6 = X/12

Optional RW 1 pt each

Spoken1  X/10

 

 

**At SHEC, we want the strongest students to move up.

The South Hill English department strongly recommends that students who are marginally passing (50-60%) not advance to the next level.

People sometimes move up to English classes that they are not prepared for.

 

We want to encourage students who are doing well in classes to register early for the next level. We want to dissuade students who are not ready from registering in a class that may be too high for them. Everybody wants to feel competent and challenged.

 

 

**The final few weeks of the course:

 

For the final three and a half weeks, we will keep doing tests and quizzes until the end of the course. Plus, there will be a second spoken mark for the final few weeks worth X/15. Plus we will do a presentation worth 10 points. Also, there will be an essay.

 

IMPORTANT: You will have lots of opportunity to bring your marks up in the last weeks of class.

You will also have lots of opportunity to bring your marks down if you stop working.

 

This is just past the halfway point.

 

OPTIONS for registration- Stay at your current level or move up to the next level.

EF1 – EF1 or EF2

EF2- EF2 or EF3

SP12- extra course I can recommend for an EF course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Quiz5

Simple verb tenses: simple present, simple past, simple future

 

Quiz 5

Dividers.

Couple pieces of lined ruled paper

Phones and electronic devices put away.

Write a sentence for each.

Pass in by 9:50.

 

Simple present

1.    use              phone

Jun uses his phone every day.

Jun uses his phone at work/in class every day.

 

2.    talk              friend

I talk with my friend on the phone /in the library every morning.

 

Simple past

3.    bring           chocolate

bringed was bring brought

I brought chocolate yesterday.

I brought some chocolate to class / for my friends yesterday.

 

4.    see              movie

seed was see saw

We saw a movie last month.

We saw a good/boring movie at the theatre/at night/at home last month.

 

 

 

Simple future- will   be going to

5.    ask              question

I will ask my teacher a question tomorrow.

She will ask some questions in class tomorrow.

I am going to ask my teacher a question tomorrow.

*Write one answer per question.

 

6.    buy              car

We will buy a new/old/used/fancy/sports car next year.

 

 

 

Quiz

*Write in pen, not pencil.

*Title: Quiz 5

*Full name, class, and date in top right corner.

*Double space

*Write between the red lines (margins).

*Make it neat.

 

 

Title: Quiz5 RW

 

 

 

 

Yesterday

 

Title: Practice Paragraph

 

-         not for marks

-         practice

 

Things to remember:

1.    Full name, class, and date top right corner.

2.    Title: Practice Paragraph

3.    Indent the first word.

4.    Write in pen

5.    Double space

6.    Write between the margins

7.    Make it neat.

 

We will continue with paragraph writing after Winter Break.

 

 

**

“100 Most Common Nouns”

1.    time

We have lots of time.

Time goes quickly.

What time is it?

It’s time for dinner/bed/homework.

The time is 11am.

The time is getting late.

The time went fast.

2.    year

He is ten years old.

She has lived in Canada for five years/one year.

We will

Every year, I celebrate New Years.

3.    people – plural

person- singular

People talk different different languages.

That person is looking at you.

Those people are looking at you.

 

50. issue- problem, magazine

I have a problem/ an issue with my phone.

The new issue of “Sports Illustrated” is out.

 

99. force- pressure, weight

He joined the Air Force.

We watched “Air Force One”.

 

93. research- study  She researched science at UBC.

I researched good cheap electric bicycles.

 

69. president- leader of a country or a company

Jack Ma is the president of AliBaba. His wealth is $27 B.

$27 000 000 000

The president of the United States is Donald J. Trump.

 

89. result- final mark, final score, final product

Her test result was very good. She got 91%.

His blood test result was fine.

 

39. story

I like to write my life story.

Little kids love bedtime stories.

She told a long story.

 

58. power- energy

His bicycle had a lot of power.

The power went out during the storm.

 

85.art- paintings, sculptures

Some people like to play cards.

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