Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
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Talk about replacement quiz and test tomorrow
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Sentence Combining practice
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“Superstitions”
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Tongue Twisters
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GAME Two truths, one lie. OR Guess it!
Thursday, April 16
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Return essay
RW for 1 point
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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
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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.
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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
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break a mirror, seven years bad luck
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open an umbrella inside
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