P1 EF6 Class 26

 

the quiz flu

 

midterm recommendations-

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 5

·      Midterm recommendations

·      Vocabulary from last class

·      New dialogue “Going to the Bank”

·      New verb tense – present progressive/continuous

·      Quiz 4 (last 25m)

 

Monday

·      Talk about spoken presentations

·      New dialogue “Going to the Bank”

·      New verb tense – present progressive/continuous

·      Begin adjective clauses

·      Begin opinion writing

 

Tuesday

·      Continue present progressive verb tense

 

 

LEFTOVER Finish “Odd Word Out 1”

 

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Odd Word Out Exercise 1

He is an odd person.

odd- weird, unusual

 

In each line, choose the word that is different from the others in meaning.

1.     tidy                 neat                     ponder(v)      clean              orderly(adj)

She ponders her future. She thinks deeply about it.

2.     manage         direct                  organize        control           various

various(adj) variety(n)- different kinds

She plays a variety of sports. She plays many kinds of sports.

 

diverse(adj) diversity(n)- different kinds of people, cultures

I have diverse classmates.

multicultural(adj) Canadian policy since the 1970s

multiculturalism(n)

US- “the melting pot”

 

3.     scheme         suitable              plan                design            undertaking

Opening her new business was a huge undertaking/job/amount of work.

undertaking-

Immigration is a big undertaking.

 

4.     primary         presume            suppose        assume         believe

suppose(v) – make a good guess, anticipate what will happen

I suppose I will finish at SHEC next year.

5.     foolish           silly                      absurd           smooth         ridiculous

The salesman was a smooth talker. He had a silver tongue.

 

6.     uncertain      marvelous         wonderful    amazing        great

 

7.     pleasant        fragile                 delicate         frail                breakable

 

Her grandma looks very frail.

The crystal wine glasses are fragile.

 

8.     wreck             ruin                     destroy          spoil               decent

descent(v)- go deeper, go down

decent(adj)- moral, fair

Don’t spoil the movie for me.

You can spoil your children.

Spoiled children misbehave.

Spoiled children can grow up into entitled adults.

 

IDIOM Spill the beans. to tell a secret

Too Much and Never Enough, Mary L. Trump

 

9.     disaster         catastrophe       tragedy          doubt            calamity

 

10. prompt         immediate        punish            quick              rapid

 

11. stretch          private               confidential  personal       secret

 

12. proclaim      announce          declare          publish          chastise

 

The mother chastised her son when he was bad.

criticize- kind of similar

admonish- chastise, get after someone

 

 

VOCAB

irritate(v)- bother, make a little bit angry

Jun’s little brother used to irritate her.

irritating(adj)
My old phone is irritating. It is slow and crashes a lot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dialogue- “Going to the Bank”

 

Let’s get into our chat groups.

You can discuss the Warm-Up Questions and the Vocabulary Preview.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Quiz 4

Dividers.

Devices and notes away.

Write a sentence with an adverb clause for each.

1.    because                tired

2.    if                            watch

3.    after                      call

4.    while                     cook

5.    until                      asleep

6.    although              park