P1 EF6 Class 1

 

  

Good morning, everyone.

This is the Quarter 4 (Q4) Period 1 (P1) (9:15-11:30) class for this course:

English Foundations 6

We will get started at 9:15

 

My name is Allan Haley

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Welcome

·      Parking

·      Wi-fi for students

·      Dates, times for our class

·      Class blog

·      Communication via email

·      Covid protocols

·      Course overview- handouts

·      Small group chatting- icebreaker

·      IF TIME Student Questionnaire

 

Friday

·      Continue Thursday work

 

COMING UP NEXT WEEK

Sentence Work

Dialogues

 

 

 

 

My name is Allan Haley.

You can call me Allan.

 

first name is fine

I will call you by your first name.

 

cultural – respect – Sir, Ma’am

Professor- university

Adult Ed- first name is ok

 

Chinese culture- Teacher Wong

 

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Attendance

I will take attendance at the beginning of class. If you are late, it’s your responsibility to let me know you are here.

 

 

**Parking**

Free parking at SHEC

Scan the QR code on the white piece of paper. You will need a cell phone.

 

VOCAB QR code- quick response

 

Put it your licence plate of your car.

 

Put in your full name.

 

You will be able to park in the SHEC parking lot until August 31st, 2026.

 

If you did it last term, you should be ok.

 

 

 

Enter your licence plate on your car.

Not your DL- Drivers Licence

 

Names- confusing

First name- given name

Last name – family name, surname

 

Allan Haley

Allan – first name, given name

Haley – last name, family name, surname

 

legal name – name on your passport

 

Cultural- Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese- reverse of English

 

Mary Wong- English

Wong Mei- Chinese

 

People make this mistake all the time.

quite confusing

filling out forms, applications-

Be cautious! It can be a pain to fix the error.

 

The website will send you an email receipt if you tell it to. Keep that email as a record, as proof that you signed up for parking.

 

You may want to sign up again if you don’t a receipt.

 

The email receipt will act as proof if there is a problem.

 

Sometimes they give tickets by mistake.

 

**Wifi*

SHEC students can use SHEC wifi.

Wifi: VSB-Commons

Wifi password: It’s on the white piece of paper on the wall. Check it.

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*** Course dates and times***

 

M-F 9:15-11:30

Thursday, April 23rd- Wednesday, June 24^th, 2026

 

HOLIDAYS- non-instructional days

Monday, May 18^th- Victoria Day

https://www.vam.ac.uk/south-kensington

 

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Summer school

Monday, July 6^th- Friday, August 7th

 

 

*** Class Blog ***

 

Everything that you see on this screen, I will put on our class blog.

Blog- website for the class

 

 

CLASS BLOG: haleyshec.blogspot.com

It’s on the course handout which you get in a few minutes.

 

I publish these notes on our blog every day at the end of each class.

 

You do not have to write every off the screen as we go.

 

Nevertheless, making notes during class is an excellent way to improve retention.

 

VOCAB retention(noun) – retain(verb), remember(verb)

 

Making notes helps you to retain information.

 

It’s hard to retain new vocabulary.

 

 

NEW VOCAB? blog – weblog- keep a written record on the internet, online diary, publish your thoughts

older version of Substack -paid

Some people are bloggers. They write about their interests.

for examples: movies, travel, family, food, sports, politics, music, etc

 

 

portmanteau- two words put together

smog = smoke + fog – dirty air hanging over a city, pollution

brunch= breakfast + lunch, 11am, $$

 

web- World Wide Web (www), internet

 

log- written record

 

VOCAB

log- piece of a cut down tree

 

log- written record

 

 

keep a log-  nurse in a hospital, truck driver, Uber drivers, delivery- record events as they occur

important notes, written record

Some people keep a workout log.

People on a diet keep a food log.

The pilot kept a flight log.

The daycare attendants keep a log of the kids’ activities.

 

We have a blog for the class.

I will update my blog every day after class. You can check it and review what we did in class.

You can check the blog as much as you like. There is no sign-in or no password. There’s no credit card. It’s all free. It’s all public and accessible.

 

Our blog is a tremendous resource that you can use. You can use it this quarter. You can keep using it after you finish this course. You can use it forever, until the end of time. I will keep it up forever.

 

My blog is searchable. You can search for something specific that you are looking for.

 

The search bar is in the upper lefthand corner of the main blog screen. Search for whatever you want to learn more about.

 

The search bar may not appear on your phone. I will appear on a laptop, ipad, or PC.

 

On a phone, click on “View web version” on the bottom of the page. It should refresh with a search bar. The search bar will be very small.

 

 

 

ACTION

 

I will post our notes so far.

Go to the blog now. Make sure you can open it.

haleyshec.blogspot.com

 

Let me know if you are having trouble opening my blog.

Did it load?

 

If yes? Good!

If no? Let me know or ask a classmate.

 

Good job! Excellent job!

 

 

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Registration

Every quarter, you will register for the next course.

e.g. Quarter 1 (Sept-Nov)

mid October- reg for Quarter 2

 

Quarter 2(Nov-Jan)

mid Jan reg for Q3

 

Quarter 4

early June reg for Summer

 

Quarter 1(Sept-Nov)

mid August reg for Q1

 

You register for the course you are going to take.

 

 

***Daily Agenda***

 

Every day I will post an ‘agenda’.

 

VOCAB agenda- used for meetings, business or professional meeting,

-list of items to talk about, schedule, plan for the meeting or class

 

meeting- chair

You can tell the Chair, “I want to put an item on the agenda.”

 

VOCAB chair- leader of a meeting, keeps the meeting on-track and moving along

 

OLD VOCAB, -chairman, chairperson

non-gendered language- chair, not male or female

 

Western approach to naming jobs- non-gendered

 

Examples of non-gendered job titles:

councilman - councillor

policeman – police officer

fireman – firefighter

stewardess- flight attendant

restaurant-waitress/waiter- server

postman- letter carrier

JOKE snowman – snow person

handyman- maintenance person?

 

VOCAB handyman- someone who fix things around the house, leaking leak, dripping faucet, minor electrical issue, assembling furniture

handy(adj)- good at fixing things   She is very handy with computers.

He is handy around the house.

He is not very handy.

 

 

VOCAB handy(ADJ)- good at fixing things around the house

She is very handy.

I am not very handy.

 

Mei is the chair of the meeting. noun, person

Mei will chair the meeting today. verb- run, organize, lead, manage the conversation between the people, helps to keep the meeting on track

 

agenda- lets everyone know what to expect, what is coming

 

VOCAB host (noun, verb)

He hosted a retirement party.

He was the host at the restaurant.

 

OLD VOCAB She is the hostess at the restaurant. gendered language

He is the host at The Keg.

He is a maitre d’.  fancy host, French restaurant

 

 

VOCAB host, hold (verbs)

Jon hosted a party at his house.

Jon held/had/conducted a meeting at his office.

 

 

** 10-Minute Break**

 

IDIOM on track- organized, no digression, keep on the path

Sue is on track to finish high school next year.

Sue is in the process of finishing high school next year. in the middle

 

 

 

The little boy gets off track with his homework. He is distracted by his phone.

She tries hard to stay on track with going to the gym three times a week.

 

IDIOM His plan went out the window. His plan went off track.

 

Everyday, we will have an agenda.

 

 

**Emails***

I sent you an email yesterday.

Did you get it?

If you received that email from me, than that means we can communicate via email.

If you did not receive an email from me, that means I do not have your correct email in the computer system. We will have to fix that.

Check your JUNK folder.

If you did not get the email, the office may have your incorrect email address. You can change it with the office in the next few days. I can’t change your email through my computer. The office has to do it.

 

I asked you to respond to ahaley@vsb.bc.ca with your full name and class in the subject line of your email. Many of you responded to the email as I requested.

 

I responded “Thank you, Allan”

 

Thank you for that. I want email communication to be seamless between us.

 

VOCAB seamless(adj)- smooth, no problems , no confusion

 

 

seam – where two pieces of cloth are sewed, joined, rough area, bumpy

seamless- not rough, smooth

 

Registering for this class was seamless. adjective

Taking the Skytrain using a credit card is seamless.

Raising teenagers is rarely seamless.

Immigrating to Canada was not seamless. It can be a rocky road.

IDIOM rocky road- difficult experience

 

Is learning English seamless? It is very challenging. It is also rewarding.

 

Taking the flight was not seamless. There were delays.

 

IMPORTANT REMINDER

When you send an email to me or any teacher, please put your full name and class in the subject line of the email.

Then I will know who you are and what class you are in.

e.g. Joe Ahmed, EF7, P2

Sarah Wong, Comp10, P2

 

 

 

 

***Covid or transmissible diseases Protocols***

VOCAB protocol- accepted ways to act or talk

 

1.    Use sanitizer.

Two bottles of sanitizer at the front

 

2. Wash your hands many times a day.

Use moisturizer/hand lotion.

You can get eczema.

 

3. Feel free to wear a mask if you want.

 

I will not wear a mask while I am teaching.

 

We lose the facial expressions. We lose the lip reading.

 

4. In general, if you’re sick, stay home.

 

 

can’t see facial expressions

Talking on the phone is challenging.

Face-to-face is easier.

 

VOCAB challenging- difficult, hard

EUPHEMISM – a word that we use instead of the less polite word

BUSINESS TALK  The business has experienced some challenges this quarter.

She is a very challenging person.

 

euphemisms-  bathroom, restroom, washroom

 

teacher- interesting

 

 

** Course Outlines**

 

English Foundations 6

Have a look over it.

We will go over the course outlines tomorrow.

 

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Ice-Breaker Exercise

 

IDIOM ice-breaker – warm up technique, social game, social exercise

e.g. party, don’t know anybody- basic icebreaker nametag, invite to talk

 

*shy(adj)- afraid of being judged by others

*introverted(adj)- don’t like social contact, tires them out, drains their battery

*extraverted- love to be social, love being around people, social interaction charges their battery

 

 

Small groups (4-5 people, lots of energy in the group)

Choose people who do not speak your language.

Reason #1- easy to fall into mother language, forced to stick to English

Reason #2- getting used to different accents among English users

 

chat- casual talking, relaxed, pleasant

 

 A.      Topics for chatting with your partner(s)

1.    Name

2.    Home

3.    Family

4.    Job

5.    Hobbies- things you do for fun, like to do, free time

6.    Special skills

7.    Travel

8.    Future plans

 

Let’s talk in English.

 

 

 

 

 

**CONTINUE TOMORROW**