Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
· Networking
workshop
networking -social and professional connections
not necessarily close friends, people you
know
· Continue
sentence work: compound sentences
Quiz Friday- simple and compound sentences
Explain structure of the quiz
Choose vocabulary to review
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Continue article “Diaspora”
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Continue persuasive writing
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Finish vocabulary from Friday
Friday
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Quiz
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Quiz tomorrow- simple sentences
-compound
sentences
Six sentences
Quiz 1
Write an appropriate sentence for each.
SIMPLE
1 SSV community
Tomorrow, Jun
and Jon are going to Hastings Community
Centre tomorrow to work out tomorrow.
Jun and Jon come from different
diaspora communities in Vancouver.
2 SSVV beginning
people
Sarah and Michele are shy but are beginning to
meet new people. SIMPLE
Sarah and Michele danced with people and laughed together at
the beginning of the party.
In the beginning of the workshop, Darwin and his followers
explained evolution theory and discussed it with the other people.
Sarah and Michele are shy, but they are beginning
to meet new people.
COMPOUND
COMPOUND
3 therefore immigrant
The new immigrants are hard to make find it
hard to make a living in Vancouver; therefore, they have to learn English.
I am hard to learn English. XXX
FIXES
It is hard to learn English.
It is hard for me to learn English.
I find it hard to learn English.
STURCTURE I find =
you’re opinion
I find it chilly today.
I find it salty.
I find it is hard to learn English. noun clause
I find it hard to learn English. adj
I find it chilly today.
I find it salty. MORE AUTHENTIC
I find it is chilly today.
I find that it is chilly today. noun clause
I find it is salty. MORE AUTHENTIC
I find it hard to understand what you mean.
I find it salty.
He finds her friendly. I find her quite shy.
4 so health
I drink a banana avocado smoothie everyday, and it makes me healthy.
He got sent to jail, so after ten years, his health declined.
She has a rewarding hobby, so it makes her mentally healthy.
She is physically active.
She has a rewarding hobby, so it is good for her mental
health.
spiritually aware
She is emotionally stable. She is on an even keel.
ODIOM on an even keel – emotionally stable
He is emotionally unstable. He is all over the place. He is
an emotional rollercoaster.
They are financially stable/unstable.
Salespeople have unstable incomes.
stable housing
He has a stable relationship with his daughter.
spiritually aware-
museums, art galleries, art movies, theatre, reading-
IDIOM culture vulture – funny and negative
positive sounding- He has a passion for music/art/cinema/literature.
Clothing design is my passion.
She is passionate about volleyball. adj
passion(n)
passionately(adv)
passionfruit Why? the passion of Christ
Let’s choose 10 transitional terms to review.
1. so
2. or
3. but
4. and
5. for this reason
6. therefore
7. however
8. on the other hand
9. in addition
10. in particular
Let’s choose 10 vocabulary to review.
1. rewarding(adj)
2. well-being(n)
3. elsewhere(n)
4. diaspora(n)
5. intense(adj) intensity(n)
6. unstable(adj)
7. distract(v) distraction(n) distracting(adj)
8. hybrid(adj,n)
9. embrace(v,n)
10. compensate(v)
I will choose six for the quiz.
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“Diaspora Communities”
Breakout groups(4-6 people)
Discuss Thought Questions
I was waiting for a lull in the conversation.
1. scan
– look over quickly, skim
IDIOM the daily grind- daily, day to day
work, daily routine, drudgery
drudgery- boring work that you have to do
2. trans-
across, move across
the trans-Canada highway, Highway
1
high-speed trains, transnational
Japan “Bullet Train”
international
Europass- Europe
living transnationally- living in
two countries, emotionally
My heart is in Vietnam. My body
is here.
belong to two/three countries
4.fatique, distraction, irritability, emotionally numb,
He is very irritable. He is short-tempered and impatient.
5. emotional support-comfort, empathy, a willing ear
financial assistance- sending money, remittance
real-time crisis coordination
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