EF6WI567 Class 26

 

Today’s agenda

·      Attendance

·      Midterm recommendations- one-on-one meetings, first half of the class

·      Return Quiz4

Go over

RW for one point

·      Verb Tense exercises- Test A 1-20

 

Thursday

·      Midterm recs- one-on-one meetings, second half of the class

·      Reading “Christmas”

·      IF TIME Begin adjective clauses- final type of clause

 

Friday

·      Last day before Winter Break

 

*Two-week Winter Break*

Back on Monday, January 5^th

After Winter Break, we have three more weeks.

We will keep doing quizzes and tests until the end.

 

 

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Midterm/Interim Recommendations-

 

We are past the halfway point in the term. We have only three and a half weeks left.

 

Registration for Quarter 3 courses will begin Monday, January 5^th. 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.

 

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.

EF6 – EF6 or EF7/English10

WI567- no rec from me, rec from your EF instructor

 

You can figure out roughly your own average right now, except for spoken. Add up your quizzes and tests. Guess at your spoken mark.

 

We will talk at our one-on-one meetings.

 

 

 

Some people are detail-oriented. They are comfortable with minutia. They like very detailed things.

I am not. This kind of work is challenging for me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quiz4

Write a sentence with a noun clause for each.

Pass in by 12:35.

1.    think           boring

I think that the movie is boring.

We thought that the class was not boring.

 

2.    wonder      flight

Jun wondered why Marta’s flight was late/delayed.

I wonder if my flight will leave on time.

She wonders when the flight will arrive.

She wonders what the flight’s ETA is.

ETA- estimated time of arrival

My ETA is five minutes.

ETD estimated time of departure

 

3.    say               appointment

She said that she has/had an appointment with her dentist at 2:30.

2:30 tooth hurty

 

4.    believe       excellent

I can’t believe how excellent the food was at the restaurant.

 

5.    promise     mother

I promised my mother that I would call her tomorrow.

 

6.    know          traffic

He knows that traffic is heavy between 3-5 / at rush hour.

 

 

 

 

 

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Verb Tense exercises- Test A 1-20

 

1.

2. has appeared

Brad Pitt will appear in “Two Cats”.

 

3. I am in the garage working. He is in the kitchen washing the dishes.

I am working in the garage. He is washing the dishes in the kitchen.

Jun is in Toronto working.

 

4.

IDIOM It’s you. It suits you.

 

desert-

dessert-

 

full moon   half moon   crescent moon- croissant

 

10. was watching