Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
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Finish “The Cost of Living”
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Continue complex sentences- adverb clauses
Quiz 4 soon
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New dialogue “Interviewing for a Job”
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Test 1 – narrative paragraph (last 50m)
Tuesday
Ginny will be here. I will be away.
Wednesday
Thursday
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Midterm recommendations
Friday
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Midterm recommendations
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Finish “The Cost of Living”
Vocabulary Preview
1. median-
middle,
In a group of numbers, the median is the number
where half of the other numbers are higher, and half of the other numbers are
lower.
2. milestone-
a big achievement, reaching a goal
When I arrived in Canada, that was a big
milestone in my life.
3. out
of reach -unachievable, can’t achieve it
achievable, in reach, within reach
Finishing high school at SHEC is within
reach for most of us.
WARNING: Keep out of reach of children.
4. scarce(adj)
very hard to find, not easily available
Medical masks were scarce during Covid 19.
scared(adj) afraid
scarce(adj) scarcity(n)
There was a scarcity of medical masks during Covid 19.
There is a scarcity of oil in the world.
abundance(n) abundant(adj)
Consumer confidence is high in Canada.
Consumer confidence is low in ABC Country.
VOCAB consumer confidence- how much people are willing to
spend, how confident people are that the economy will stay strong
personal confidence- how you feel about yourself
Reading
Read this out loud.
I will read it out loud. We can talk about vocab. We can talk
about pronunciation.
You can read some out loud for the class.
VOCAB household- the house and whoever is living in the
house. suggest family, suggests closeness, roommates?
Census- counting the people who live in a country
VOCAB struggle(v,n) working hard, hard work
VOCAB goods(n) – things that you can buy, products that you
can buy
good, bad(adj)
service(n) – you pay for someone to help you, do work for
you
VOCAB purchase(v,n)- buy
VOCAB Inflation is skyrocketing in Iran right now.
The historical rate of inflation in Canada has been just over
3%.
VOCAB pandemic- a disease that spreads around the world, e.g.
Covid19, Spanish Flu of 1918,
ebola- epidemic
VOCAB trillion- 1 000 000 000
1000 one thousand
1 000 000 one million
1 000 000 000 one billion
1 000 000 000 000 one trillion
VOCAB resources- things that you use,
Canada has a lot of natural resources such as oil, water, forests,
etc.
Iran has tremendous oil and gas resources, plus gold.
agriculture, agricultural resources- growing crops
VOCAB borrowers- any person on company who borrows money, someone
who has a debt
Are you debt-free?
mortgage, can loan, personal debts, credit card debt, etc.
VOCAB aim(v)- set a goal, make a plan
VOCAB stable(adj)- steady, not up, now down
VOCAB percentage %
VOCAB tend(v) usually will happen
It tends to rain a lot in Vancouver.
VOCAB necessity(n)- things that you need- food, shelter,
water, clothing
necessary(adj)
VOCAB expenses(n) things that you have to pay for
expensive(adj)
VOCAB
economy(n)
economic(adj)
VOCAB greater(adj) bigger, larger, better
QUESTION
Is inflation always a bad thing? choose one
VOCAB catastrophe(n) disaster, a terrible thing that happens
The war in Iran has been a catastrophe for the Iranian
people.
VOCAB phenomenon- something that happens, good or bad
VOCAB IDIOM the elements- being out in nature, outside with no
shelter, weather
VOCAB plague- the Black Plaque- 13th century pandemic
plaque- pandemic
Test 1
Dividers.
Take out several sheets of lined ruled paper.
Electronic devices and notes away.
Double space.
Full name, class and date top right corner
Write a narrative paragraph of at least 150 words on the
following topic.
Write about a funny thing that happened to you when you were
a kid.
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