Summer EF710 Class 14

 

Summer English Foundations 7/Composition and Literary Studies 10

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Quiz 3- noun clauses (first 25m)

·      Talk about midterm recs

·      Verb tense exercises

·      Midterm recommendations- first half of class alphabetically

Explain the registration process

·      Modals

·      Continue dialogue “Interviewing for a Job”

 

Friday

·      “Learning Reflection and Goal Setting” Week 3

·      Vocabulary exercise- easier

·      Midterm recommendations- second half of class alphabetically

·      HW         Read “Dead Man’s Path”. Prepare “Thought

Questions” for Monday

 

Monday- July 27^th

·      First day of registration for September

·      Begin grabbers- paragraph structure

·      Begin verb tense- present perfect

 

 

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Register for September courses will begin Monday, July 27^th.

You will register using the website, as usual. I can explain how to reg on that day.

 

Midterm recommendations

 

You will need a recommendation from your instructor.

 

What course should you register for in September.

The schedule is up on the wall outside the office.

I will be teaching EF7/10/Comp11, Period 1 and 2.

My September EF7/10/Comp11 will be 80% identical to this course.

It will be higher-level.

 

I will give out midterm/interim recommendations Thursday, July 23rd and Friday, July 24^th.

-half the class Thursday, other half on Friday- alphabetical order

 

 

Interim recommendations based on quizzes, tests, spoken work so far

 

Tests1         x/12

Quiz1          X/6

Quiz2          X/6

Quiz3          X/6

RWs            I pt each

Spoken 1   x/7

 

Average of all of those marks.

I will show you when we chat.

 

Looking for a solid 60% to get early recommendation to move up.

 

Midterm recommendation- halfway through the course.

It is not a final mark.

 

 

Clear YES or clear NO

40-55%                 Clear NO

65%-70%+           Clear YES

 

People in the middle-grey area

57-60% - LOW

~60%+ - MINIMAL YES

 

I decide if you get the recommendation to go up to the next level or not.

I follow the PLOs and the four-point proficiency scale.

 

We still have two weeks to go.

We have marked work left to do.

Quiz4

Test2

Essay

Spoken2

RWs

 

Marks will go up and down.

There is a lot of opportunity to raise your marks.

There is also a lot of opportunity to lower your marks.

 

 

 

Today and tomorrow, we will do short one-on-on meetings, you and me. We will talk about how things are going, and we will discuss what course would be best for you in September.

 

If you are going to take September off, you won’t need any recommendation. We can still meet, and you can use the recommendation for November.

 

 

 

 

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Return Quiz3

Optional RW for one point. Title: Quiz3 RW

Please pass it in tomorrow first thing, not today. I am floating in paper at the moment.

 

One-on-one meetings

 

OPTIONS

1.Verb tense exercises

2.Quiz 3 RW

3. Read “Dead Men’s Path”

 

 

Title: Quiz 3

Write a complex sentence with an noun clause for each.

1.    think           available

I don’t think that the manager will be available tomorrow.

2.    wonder      hire

I wonder why the company hired that guy.

I wonder if the company will hire some new staff.

3.    feel              experience

I feel that my previous experience will transfer to my new job.

VOCAB transferable skills

4.    say               meeting

Jun said that the meeting will be held in the conference room.

5.    forget         office

Jon forgot where the new office is.

6.    believe       customer

The boss believes that the customer is always right.

IDIOM for salespeople  The customer is always right.

 

 

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Modals/Modal Auxiliaries

Go over some

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Past progressive verb tense-

1.past event, usually when it was interrupted, some other event happened during

Mark was cooking supper, and his brother called.

2.two actions simultaneously, at the same time

Mark was cooking supper while his wife was watching TV.

 

Exercise 4

7.    dinner / supper / UK tea

I am having my tea/ dinner / supper.

teatime- mid afternoon tea and biscuits

high tea- fancy mid afternoon tea and biscuits

You can have high tea at some a fancy hotel in Victoria.

10.skating- ice skating

rollerblades

 

 

 

11.They were speeding.

VOCAB speed(v)- drive too fast

overspeed(V)

She was speeding. He was driving 20km over the speed limit.

VOCAB accelerate(v) go faster

She accelerated when she got on the highway.

He decelerated when he saw the kids playing by the side of the road.

 

VOCAB deescalate- lower the emotion of an argument or stressful situation

The police tired to deescalate their interaction with the upset man.

 

15.was doing/ was washing and drying

I’ll wash. You dry.

Sometimes you need elbow grease to get a pot clean.

Use some elbow grease!

She washed the dishes.

She scrubbed/scoured the dirty pot.

VOCAB scour(v)- clean with a metal pad

He scoured the dirty pot with steel wool and elbow grease.

16.

IDIOM Running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

 

Exercise 3

2.The school choir was practicing for the concert in the gym.

VOCAB choir(n)- PRON kw ire

group of people singing together

The church choir sounds beautiful.

They sang the national anthem.

3.The students were / class was  studying Spanish when the fire alarm went off.

The students studied Spanish.

4.The principal was meeting with a group of parents when the fire alarm went off again.

5.The teachers were discussing the final exam when the principal came in to ask who was pulling the fire alarm.

6.VOCAB custodian- a person who cleans a big building e.g. school, office building, etc.

An apartment building has a superintendent.

The custodian was cleaning the girls’ locker room, and he found a lost phone.

7.The student council discussed the graduation dance.

grad- prom

8.The actors were rehearsing the school play when the lights went out.