P1 EF6 Class 3

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Prescribed Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

·      Dialogues “Choosing a Phone Plan”

·      Student Questionnaire

 

Tuesday

·      Begin sentence work “Overview of Sentence Types”

·      Simple sentences

·      Continue “Choosing a Phone Plan”

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Wednesday

·      Continue sentence work “Overview of Sentence Types”

·      Simple sentences

Quiz 1 soon

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Thursday

 

Friday

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 1

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Ministry of Education in BC

from www.bced.gov.bc.ca

 

EF6

 

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

-basis for evaluation

 

 

 

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, discovery, 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.

 

Setting goals- plan, target, aim, trajectory, path, vision, purpose, dream?, destination, ambition, project, aspiration(n), aspire(v)

“I want/aspire to be an immigration lawyer.”

“My aspiration is to run my own business.”

“My plan/aspiration/ambition is to be an interior designer.”

Stretch your comfort zone.

IDIOM your comfort zone – just doing what does not challenge you, used to it already, comfortable, no risk, no pressure

 

The PLOs will encourage us to grow.

 

IDIOM our comfort zone – no pressure, feel comfortable, feel confident

 

take risks in order to grow

challenge ourselves

 

Do you challenge yourself?

-learning a new/ different/ additional language

-make more money

-talking with kids

-communicate with other people

-immigrating/emigrating

VOCAB immigrate- come into a country permently    emigrate-leave a country permanently

She emigrated from China. She immigrated to Canada.

immigrate(v) immigration(n) immigrant(n, person)

 

-getting PR

 

Levels of mastery: EMERGING   DEVELOPING   PROFICIENT   EXTENDING

 

 

 

 

Going outside our comfort zone is challenging, frightening, destabilizing, stressful, etc.

On the other hand, this is where growth comes from.

-personal growth, professional growth, confidence, mastery, become expert, gain expertise

 

professional – get paid

semi-professional –

amateur- no money

I am a serious amateur musician.

 

 

-explore, grow

 

MY MOTTO: I have to say ‘yes’ to new good experiences, especially for music.

motto- special words you can tell yourself

 

 

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

 

 

My focus for marking:

ORAL- talking

A1 – engage with others in sustained conversation

-communicate ideas on a variety of topics

-describe diverse points of view

A2- demonstrate an understanding of detailed information communicated through a variety of spoken sources

 

 

 

 

WRITING – sentences, paragraphs, essay

C1- enhance meaning by using conventions, forms, and structures of writing

- YOU SHOULD ALREADY HAVE LEARNED THESE simple, compound, and complex sentence structures

- YOU SHOULD ALREADY HAVE LEARNED THESE capitalization, punctuation

- YOU SHOULD ALREADY HAVE LEARNED THESE past, present, and future verb tenses, including simple, progressive, present perfect

 

C5- generate, develop, and organize ideas for writing

          setting the topic

          limiting the topic

          brainstorming ideas

          organizing ideas

 

These are the main PLOs that I will be focusing on for teaching and marking.

 

Which of the PLOs are you good at already?

Which ones do you want to get better at?

 

challenging- writing

What’s challenging about writing?

-spelling

-developing ideas- points and details

-prepositions kitty-corner

preposition before a verb     “to go” infinitive

                                                   “going” gerund

 

preposition after a verb “go to” phrasal verb

**Very important to know

phrasal verb = verb + preposition

talk + to

talk + over

talk + for

talk + about

 

-articles- a an the

-new vocabulary- remembering new vocab

Flash cards! phone app

-colloquial vocabulary

colloquial- authentic, natural-sounding vocabulary

          -developing depth of vocabulary

          -verbs? modal auxiliaries

          -punctuation period, comma, semicolon ;

          question mark, exclamation point, colon :

          “  “ quotation marks   - hyphen

 

semicolon

It is cloudy. It is warm. two simple sentences

It is cloudy, but it is warm. one compound sentence

It is cloudy; it is warm. one compound sentence

It is cloudy; however, it is warm. one compound sentence

 

Listening

-         watching movies, listening to podcasts

Good for your English?

subtitles

good for listening

repeating phrases and sentences

learn new vocab and use it in conversation

repeated watching, listening

Are different accents difficult?

pronunciation?

speaking pace

-idioms- secret codes “butterflies in my stomach”

Break a leg! Good luck.

I’m torn. I don’t know what to choose.

 

 

**Ten-minute break**

 

Opportunities to talk in English:

-at work

-roommates

-friends

-classes in the library

VPL.ca events

-chatting with daughters

-colearners chatting

-chat with ChatGPT- follows your level

-volunteering e.g. seniors centre

-in class with classmates

-activity groups- playing sports, hiking group, walking group, dance class

-apps HelloTalk, Duolingo

 

**If you want to learn English, you have to be social.

You have to overcome your shyness if you are shy.

You have to push yourself. You have to get out of your comfort zone.

 

shy- afraid of social judgement

introverted- social interaction is draining

extrovert- social interaction energizing

ambivert- mix of both

 

 

Listening for pronunciation and phrasing

-watching TV

-Duolingo

-radio, e.g. CBC- excellent pronunciation

-podcasts

 

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

 

 

VOCAB- perk(v) to brew coffee, percolate

 

 

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Dialogues “Choosing a Phone Plan”

Let’s get into chat groups of 4-5 people.

Discuss Warm-Up Questions and Vocabulary Preview