Wednesday, 15 April 2026

P1 EF710 Class 39

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Talk about replacement quiz and test tomorrow

·      Sentence Combining practice

·      “Superstitions”

·      Tongue Twisters

·      GAME Two truths, one lie. OR Guess it!

 

Thursday, April 16

·      Return essay

RW for 1 point

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test (final 70 m)

You can decide if you want to do the replacement quiz or test.

This is for the people who haven’t done it yet.

Replacement quiz- six sentence combining

Replacement test- paragraph

 

Friday, April 17- final day

·      One-on-one meetings, final marks and comments. You can take a picture if you want.

Final percentage and comments about ORAL and WRITTEN. Also, NEXT STEPS

I will submit the final marks and comments to the office.

You will be able to pick up your report sheet starting next week. I’m not which day.

·      You can just chill. You can hang out and relax.

 

Quarter 4 begins on Thursday, April 23rd.

 

 

 

 

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The marks to come in the next few days:

Essay          x/18

Repl test    x/12

Repl quiz    x/6

Spoken2     x/15

 

Optional Replacement test- paragraph, not an essay

150ww

one paragraph

general topic, not Animal Farm

 

Optional Replacement quiz- six sentence combining exercises

 

 

PRACTICE

“Nice Surprise”

1.1 It was Friday night. KERNEL

1.2 Tony was feeling good.

Look for new information.

 

What kind of sentence do you envision?

SIMPLE   On Friday night, Tony was feeling good.

COMPOUND   It was Friday night, and Tony was feeling good.

COMPLEX Tony was feeling good because it was Friday night.

COMPOUND-COMPLEX

 

Let’s try some. Write your sentences on your own paper.

 

 

 

 

 

2.1 He had worked hard.

2.2 He had gotten a raise.

2.3 The raise was unexpected.

 

 

promotion- higher position

raise- more money

salary- $ per year/ $ per month

wage- $ per hour

In Canada, we talk about salary as income per year.

In China, Iran, and Japan, they talk about salary as income per month.

pay period- how often you are paid- Canada and the US- every two weeks

                                                              -Japan, China- once a month

 

She is paid on commission. She is a salesperson who is paid according to how much she sells.

 

Ali is paid purely on commission.

Ahmed gets a base salary and also commission.

Sherrie gets a wage plus tips as a server.

 

bonus- extra money for doing a good job or for reaching some criteria

 

All income is taxable.

CRA knows how much servers get in tips approximately.

 

People are sick of tipping large amounts.

 

My friend’s rule of tipping: No tip if you pay before you eat.

You can tip a percentage or a dollar amount.

 

Cash is king!

 

 

He had worked hard and had gotten an unexpected raise.

He had gotten an unexpected raise because he had worked hard.

 

 

3.1 His boss had praised his efforts.

3.2 His boss was a hardworking woman.

His boss was a hardworking woman who had praised his efforts.

His boss who was a hardworking woman had praised his efforts.

His boss was a hardworking woman, and she had praised his efforts.

 

4.1 Then she had handed him a paycheque.

4.2 The paycheques contained a bonus.

4.3 The bonus was small but worthwhile.

 

Then she had handed him a paycheque.

contained a bonus

small but worthwhile

 

Then she had handed him a paycheque that contained a small but worthwhile bonus.

Then she had handed him a paycheque with a small but worthwhile bonus.

NEW STYLE OF SENTENCE

Then she had handed him a paycheque containing a small but worthwhile bonus.

 

He had said to her, “There must be some mistake.”, but she had smiled and assured him otherwise.

 

“There must be some mistake.”, he had said to her, but she had smiled and assured him otherwise.

 

“There must be some mistake.”, he had said to her, but she had assured him otherwise with a smile.

 

 

6. Tony had liked the extra money, but the recognition and acknowledgement of his efforts please him even more.

 

7. Maybe his effort and attitude really mattered, and his job could be more than a meal ticket.

 

IDIOM meal ticket- a way of getting money

 

She is Joe’s meal ticket.

 

8. He had worked hard all week and hadn’t thought anyone would notice; now he knew otherwise.

 

He thought it would be easy to learn English; now he knows otherwise.

 

 

 

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“Superstitions”

 

superstition- believe in good luck and bad luck

 

Friday the 13th- bad luck day

China- 4 bad luck   8 good luck

Canada- 13 bad luck   7 good luck

Lucky 7!

 

Canada - Touch wood. good luck

salt- superstitions all around the world

 

 

funeral

crow cawing in the morning

 

Crows has long memories. Crows are smart

 

the evil eye- put a curse or somebody, put a hex on somebody, put bad luck on somebody, jinx somebody

 

Vocabulary Preview

 

good luck – cross your fingers, a rabbit’s foot

 

good luck streak- good fortune again and again

 

bad luck streak

 

 

bad luck – black cat crosses in front of you

-         break a mirror, seven years bad luck

-         open an umbrella inside

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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