Good morning
Today’s Agenda
· Attendance
· Continue new article
· Continue with
paragraph work
Structure
and form
Paragraph
test next week
· IF TIME Begin
compound sentences
Friday
· “Self-Assessment
Reflection” Week 2
· Vocabulary exercises
· Return Quiz 1
Go
over
Optional
opportunity to do rewrite for one point.
· Continue compound
sentences
Prepare
for Quiz2 Tuesday?
· Continue new article
· Continue paragraphs
Next
week- Test1 paragraph
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Article- “Physical
Activity”
1.
150m- moderate- brisk
walking, easy cycling/biking, easy hiking, yoga, Pilates, gardening, house
chores, skiing, skating/ice skating, ping pong, badminton, golf, paddleboard,
skating, baseball, etc.
OR
75m-vigorous- tennis,
hard hiking, fast skating, competitive badminton, swimming, football/soccer, hockey,
speed skating, rollerblading/in-line skating, skiing, skateboarding,
basketball, volleyball, rugby, surfing, mountain climbing, rock climbing, indoor
wall climbing, etc.
PLUS
at least two strengthing
sessions per weak
Cardio and resistance-
2.worldwide- 73%
Canada- 49%, 51% don’t
get it
3.”not meeting the
minimum guidelines”
4.sitting, lying
down, standing, low-movement, reading, homework, doing puzzles, etc.
5. 1.blood pressure 2.smoking 3.unhealthy/poor
diet? high blood-sugar
smoking- drug-nicotine,
nicotine patches, nicotine gum
6. 10% increase-
500,000,000 early deaths
7. blood circulation,
weakened muscles, fat in the blood, insulin and glucose,
IDIOM Cold hands,
warm heart.
low insulin- lead to
diabetes
8. muscle fatigue, heart
disease, varicose veins
9. physical
exercises, movement, moving your body every 20-30m, taking movement breaks,
balance sitting and standing
**
New, challenging, and
interesting vocab in the article
*sedentary- inactive,
not moving
*vigorous- active, moving
*adversely(adv)-
negatively adversity(n)- problems in
your life
She has had a lot of
adversity in her life. She keeps positive and overcomes these difficulties.
adversities uncountable noun,
non-count noun
*accumulation(n)
accumulate(v)- gather together
She has accumulated a
lot of good friends/pairs of boots.
*shrink(v) get
smaller
Her sweater shrank in
the dryer.
*strengthen(v) strength(n)
strong(adj)
strengthening
sessions – resistance training, weight-lifting
She is a very
strong-minded person.
VOCAB strong-willed –
stubborn
weakening(v) weakness(n)
weak(adj)
*continually/continuously-
happening without a break
consistently- putting
in effort She has gone to the gym consistently for a
year.
He works consistently
to achieve his goal.
*excess(n,adj) too much
excessive(adj)- sounds a bit negative
adequate(adj)- enough,
not too little or too much
extra(adj)- more than
needed-
Her sons have excess/excessive
energy.
She has an excessive
amount of clothes.
She has an excessive
amount of books.
He has an excessive
amount of Pokemon cards.
He has driving at an
excessive speed.
*compensate(v)- make
up for
He compensates for his
insecurity by driving a big truck.
She compensates for
her height by having a tall hairdo.
152cm – 5 feet tall
kg - lbs- pounds
Canada became a
metric country in the early 1970s.
The US still uses the
Imperial system.
Canada has a weird
mix of Metric and Imperial.
*retrieve(v)- get
something back, physical
*counteract- (v) –
make up for something negative, achieve a balance in a problem
compensate- similar,
not negative meaning
*impair(v)- damage,
influence in a negative way
He was driving
impaired. drunk driving
I got a concussion.
My vision was impaired. My thinking is impaired.
*associate(v,n) – to be
connected to somebody
He has many business associates
in Korea.
Canada became the
first associate member of the EU.
EU- European Union
currency- Euro
He is associated with
criminals.
He is a known associate
of gangs.
BUSINESS TERM associate,
sales associate- salesperson, sales assistant,
team members, crew
members,
assistant manager
He is a pharmacy
assistant.
She is a certified
dental assistant. CDA
assist(v) – help
May I be of
assistance? Can I help you?
BUSINESS TALK customer-
-client- longterm,
repeat customer
Lawyers have clients.
Banks have clients/customers.
CRA – clients Canada Revenue Agency
Doctors have patients.
patient, patients(n)
sick people
patience(adj) calmness
*solution(n)- the fix
to a problem,
solve(v)
solution(n)- mix
water and dissolved material e.g. salt, sugar
She needs to buy
contact solution.
*prolong(v) make longer
in time
She hates prolonged
goodbyes.
*pacing, pace(v) –
walk back and forth, maybe in a worried way
pace(n) – walking speed
She runs 2 km at a
slow pace.
The math class is
going at too fast a pace for me.
**
Quizzes and tests,
paragraphs, essays
Please use lined ruled
8 1/2 X 11 inch paper.
Staples is good.
ORIENTATION of the
paper
right side up, not
upside down
three holes to the
left
NAME CLASS DATE
Put your full name,
class, and date in the top/upper righthand corner above the line.
TITLE
Centre title line
-Name of test, quiz
e.g. Quiz 1, Test
1, Quiz 1 RW
FORMAT
-Write in pen-
black or blue ink
Please! No pencil.
-Double space.
Write on a line; then skip a line.
-Write between the
margins.
Paragraphs
-Indent the first
word of each paragraph- 2cm ¾” 1”
1” one inch 1’ one foot
My height is 5’9”.
Your height is 5’4”.
The sandwich is one
foot long.
The little girl is
three feet tall.
Canada is a metric
country; however, we still use Imperial measurements for a lot of things.
Metric system- cm
km
Imperial- inch
foot, mile
height- how tall
you are
Metric 183cm,
173cm, 1.6m
Imperial 6 feet
tall 6’ , five feet six inches 5’6”, 5’2”
“ inch e.g. 2”
‘ foot 6’
6’2” 5’10”
5’4” “Doris is five four.”
If you are writing
on a computer, how do you indent? What key do you press to indent?
Use the TAB key.
Press SPACE five
times
Imperial –
measurement – mile, foot, inch, gallon, pound
The US uses the
Imperial system.
**
It’s easy to forget
these details when you are focussed on writing.
When the formatting
is right, it looks better.
Paragraph Format
format- layout
-
how a paragraph is presented on a page
1. Use
8 ½ * 11 inch ruled paper
ruled
– lined paper with margins
2. Paper
orientation- rightside up, not backwards
3. Write
between the margins (the red lines).
4. Write
in black or blue pen.
5. Doublespace.
6. Full
name, class and date in top right corner
7. Indent
the first word of the paragraph
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