Thursday, 6 August 2026

Summer EF7/10 Class 23

 

Summer English Foundations 7/Composition and Literary Studies 10

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Final dialogue “Handling a Medical Emergency”

·      Finish leftovers- work we haven’t finished

negative modals

·      Talk about sentence combining

·      Optional opportunity to do one replacement quiz and/or one replacement test (last 1hr30m)

 

Friday- Final day

·      Return everything

·      FOR FUN Vocabulary exercises

·      Non-instructional day

No quizzes or tests

You can stay or go- up to you.

I will finish final marks and comments.

One-on-one conferences about final reports, if you want.

You can get your final report from the office usually the next

week. Ask in the office.

 

It will have the final mark and the comments:

ORAL   WRITTEN   NEXT STEPS

 

Month off!!

Back on Tuesday, September 8th?

 

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Final dialogue “Handling a Medical Emergency”

Let’s try a few dialogues.

Volunteers

A, B, C

 

CPR- cardio-pulmonary resuscitation

cardio- heart

cardiologist- heart specialist, doctor

pulmonary- lungs, breathing

 

AR- artificial respiration

artificial- not real, manmade

respiration breathing

 

First Aid Training

 

 

conscious- awake an aware, responsive

consciousness- awareness of ourselves

Is AI conscious?

self-reflective consciousness- we are aware of being aware

Dogs are not self-consciously aware.

 

conscience- the voice in our head that tells you right from wrong

musophobia- fear of mice

 

 

 

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leftover work?

-negative modals

can   could   should   will   might

ought to   had better- strong ‘should’, less than ‘must;

be going to    have got to

 

e.g. I had better go home right after class.

You had better call your sister.

Jun had better/really should cut down on his smoking.

 

ORDER OF EMPHATIC SUGGESTION

should

had better

must

have to

have got to

 

 

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MODALS

She can speak French.

She can not speak French.

She can’t speak French. contraction

She cannot speak French. ‘cannot’ a bit more formal, my choice

 

She can speak French and English.

She can’t speak French and or English.

 

 

 

She will have some donuts.

She will not have some any donuts.

 

I could hardly sleep last night. positive- not much

I couldn’t sleep at all last night. negative- no sleep

-insomnia- can’t sleep

IDIOM tossing and turning

I was tossing and turning all night.

I tossed and turned all night because I was worried about my daughter.

She tosses and turns at night. She does not sleep well.

 

She has had insomnia since she was a teenager.

She is an insomniac.

She counts sheep.

 

-good sleeper

He sleeps like a baby.

She is out like a light.

The kids are asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow.

She drifts off to sleep. goes to sleep slowly

 

Any other modals?

need to - semi modal?

We need to get some milk.

You don’t need to buy a new phone. The old one is fine.

need to = less than ‘have to’? should

 

Sorry I was absent yesterday. I needed to pick up my sister at the airport.

I didn’t need to go to the meeting after all.

 

 

 

 

 

You need to pick up your brother at the station.

You don’t need to pick up your brother at the station.

FORMAL- UNUSUAL You needn’t pick up your brother at the station.

 

could

She couldn’t go/ couldn’t to the party last week.

She can’t go to the party this Friday.

 

 

**unresponsive

 

-verb tense exercise

“Test 1 A 1-20”

We have covered seven high-frequency verb tenses:

SIMPLE PRESENT

SIMPLE PAST

SIMPLE FUTURE

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

PAST PROGRESSIVE

PRESENT PERFECT

PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE

 

A bit more challenging.

1.am waiting

2.has appeared

appear(v) – in a movie or a show

He appeared in The Truman Show.

Joe Shmoe appears on TV talk shows regularly.

3.is in her room studying

is studying in her room

 

4.was just thinking – past progressive- past activity with an interruption

5.do you think

6.has been working- present perfect progressive – sounds temporary

7.am going to make – already planned/ will make

ingredients

8.find

9.is – same structure as #8

10.was watching- ‘while’

*past progressive and ‘while’ go well together

11.have existed

one fish, two fish

fishes- ARCHAIC FORM – really old fashioned

IDIOM for ages- for a long long time

I have done yoga for ages.

Jun and Marie have been friends for ages.

12. has been ringing

IDIOM The phone has been ringing off the hook.

13.depends- simple present- always, fact

14.am staying- present progressive-suggests the future, a touch more casual

am going to stay- best choice

will stay- less good

15.has made

decade- ten years

century- 100 years

millennium- 1000 years

milli- 1000

millilitre, millimetre,

millipede, centipede-

ped- foot

bicycle pedal, pedestrian, pedicure- mani and pedi

manicure- get your nails down

16.stepped

17.were waiting / had been waiting-GRAMMAR BOOK

 

board(v) to get on a plane, bus, ferry

aboard(adj) -on the bus, plane, ferry

The passengers are all aboard.

bored(adj) - uninterested

18.isn’t going to exist / won’t exist

19.had never won – PAST PERFECT

league- a group of sports teams playing against each other

20.will have been studying- FUTURE PERFECT PROGRESSIVE- GRAMMAR BOOK

RW Chen has been studying English for almost three years. He still needs more training before he finishes.

 

Chen will study English for three years. now-three years

 

 

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Sentence Combining

Comp 11, Eng11&12

 

-several short sentences

-find the key information in each

-combine them into one longer, denser sentence

dense- a lot of information in a compact sentence

 

6. You have the illustration of the cake. if when

It does not make sense.

VOCAB illustration- drawing, picture

                               -example, for example-as an illustration

 

 

 

 

 

 

You have the illustration of the cake.

It does not make sense.

SIMPLE? COMPOUND? COMPLEX?

 

COMPOUND

You have the illustration of the cake; however, it does not make sense.

COMPLEX

If you have the illustration of the cake, it does not make sense.

 

IDIOM You can’t have your cake and eat it, too.

 

Most effective way to improve sentence writing and speaking.

Helps to develop dense, organized sentences.

Search for writing books by William Strong

sentence writing exercises from beginner to intermediate, to advanced levels.

 

 

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