Thursday, 8 October 2026

EF71011 P1 Class 22

 

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These are the courses that I will teach next quarter (November-January).

Period 1, 9:15-11:30    EF7/10/Comp11

Period 2, 12-2:15         EF7/10

You are welcome to join these courses again. The grammar and  sentence work will be the same. The readings will be different.

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Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Prepare for midterm recommendations

Talk about midterm rec process

Brief one-on-one meetings

Discuss your progress so far based on PLOs

Emerging, Developing, Proficient, Extending

Begin one-on-one midterm short conferences- alphabetical order

·      Return Test 2

Go over

Talk about structure and process

Opportunity for RWs

·      Continue work on “Run-On Sentences and Comma Splice”

·      “Phrasal Verb Exercises”

·      IF TIME Continue verb tenses- present progressive, past progressive

 

 

Friday

·      Assessment

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 5

·      Vocabulary exercises

·      Return Quiz3

Go over

Optional RW for one point

·      Finish midterm recommendations- alphabetical order

 

 

Monday- October 12 NO SCHOOL- Thanksgiving Monday

 

Begin of our sixth week

Tuesday

·      Continue complex sentences

·      Continue verb tenses

·      Begin new article “Bike-sharing programs can help cities reduce missions and congestion”

 

 

 

**Midterm recommendations

Reg for Q2 – will begin Tuesday, October 13th, morning

You will get an email link Tuesday morning.

I can explain the reg process, or you can ask a classmate.

 

Midterm recommendations- halfway point in the course

41-42 classes in total – today is 21st class

 

midterm rec- good guess

 

today %-    will change over the next four weeks

 

-Quizzes, Tests, Essay(s), RW, Spoken 2, possible Presentation left to do

 

Lots of opportunity to bring your marks up. Often marks will rise in the second half.

We have to keep working until the last day.

analogy- football game- halftime

 

*You will be able to do one replacement quiz and/or one replacement test on the second last day.

1 quiz

1 test

 

 

Q1 4/6

Q2 0/6

Q3 0/6

 

T1 7/12

T2 0/12

Late and absent a lot.

 

We will deal with the missed quiz and test on the second last day.

 

 

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Return Test 2

 

What I look at:

1 How does it look on the page? reasonably neat, organized, block of writing

2 Topic sentence that addresses the question.

3 Supporting points- 3,4,5

4 Concluding sentence

5. Quality of the sentences- simple, compound, complex sentences

Do the sentences convey your ideas clearly?

 

I have to make a decision. Ready for next level or not.

 

Yes- 6+/12  How good is it? 6,7,8,910,11 /12

No 5-/12 Where is it? 5,4,3,2,1 /12

 

Opportunity for RW for one point.

Pass it in today or first thing tomorrow.

 

 

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Phrasal Verbs

phrasal verb = verb + preposition

talk to

walk with

wait for

look at

pick up

look for

look after

look up to- respect

look up

 

Exercise 1

1.looked on   onlooker(n)

The police kept the onlookers back.

SLANG rubbernecker

2.keep going, keep on, speed up

 

keep it on – keep wearing something

 

locked in – focussed  The kids was locked into the video game.

 

3. take a break, stand there, stand around, wait around, hang around, look around

The bus will come in ten minutes. I will go in the store and look around.

Don’t just stand around. Do some work.

4. look it up, check it out, figure it out, work it out

5. go over, talk about it, discuss

6. waiting for, waiting on

very happy- He is over the moon.

7. Sit up straight. Stand up straight. Pull you shoulders back.

posture- good posture, poor posture

8. bulk up- build muscle

get ripped – build muscle

He is bulking up.

9. sit this one out-

I’ll sit this game out. You can play.

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