Today’s Agenda
· Attendance
· Talk about spoken
presentations
· Quiz
4- adjective clauses
· Continue verb tenses-
present perfect
· Begin
noun clauses- final kind of clause
“Noun Clauses” HANDOUT
· Continue “Bike-sharing programs can help cities reduce missions and
congestion”
Thought Questions
Test 3 Thursday
· Leftover work?
“Run-On
Sentences and Comma Splices”
“Phrasal
Verb Exercises”
Thursday
· “Self-Assessment”
Week 7
· Vocabulary
exercises
· Check
progress on spoken presentations, 3pts
· Continue
noun clauses
Quiz next week
· Test
3- paragraph relating to bicycles- last 55 minutes of class
Friday- October 23rd
No school
Professional
Development
Monday, October 26
· Spoken
presentations
· Begin
essay work
· Continue
noun clauses
Choose vocab for Quiz 5
Tuesday, Oct 27
· Spoken
presentations
· Continue
essay work
· Quiz
5- last 25m
Wednesday, Oct 28
· Spoken
presentations
· Continue
essay work
Thursday, Oct 29
· Spoken
presentations
· Continue
essay work
·
Friday, Oct 30
· Spoken
presentations
Final Week
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
· Optional
replacement quiz and/or test
Friday- Last day
· Return
everything
No more RWs
· Final
marks and comments
· One-on-one
student-teacher conferences
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Tomorrow- check your
progress on the spoken presentation
3pts 0,1,2,3pts
Looking for evidence
of progress, a plan – partially or mostly finished
Monday-Friday next
week
Go in order
5m pres
Q&A
Give some
constructive feedback- written- notes
REMINDER: Check that
your device will work.
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adjective clauses with
commas
Yaletown, Gastown- unique
We live in Gastown,
which is a popular tourist hotspot.
The electric car
which is called Tesla should/can/might/may/will
reduce the use of fuel.
Modals/Modal Auxilaries
– helping verbs
can
could
should
might
may
will
would
have to
ought to
need to
am going to
be able to
have got to
MODAL + INFINITIVE –‘to’,
BASE FORM OF VERB
can + to go
I/She/We/The dog can
go
HIGHER LEVEL MODAL
We ought to be able to finish our project by
next week.
ought to = should
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Verb tenses: challenging
verb tense- vt
verb form – vf
Are verbs a challenge for you?
vf vt
SIMPLE- simple present, simple past, simple future
PROGRESSIVE- present progressive, past progressive, future
progressive- less commonly used
Confusion about simple present
-overusing simple present – habitual action
Next verb tense – present perfect – very useful
TIME FRAME- present perfect – started in the past, continues
up to now
span of time – from then until now
Timeline
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present perfect – doesn’t mean Perfect!’ perfection,
just a word, from Latin
‘perfect’ does not imply perfection or great, fantastic
PRESENT PERFECT – started in the past, continues until now,
span of time
VERY COMMON USAGE of present perfect
Molly has lived in
Vancouver since 2022.
Molly has lived in
Vancouver for four years.
has lived – present perfect verb tense
has lived- two words
auxiliary verb ‘to have’
OR ‘to be’ + past participle ‘lived’
VERB FORMS:
PRESENT PAST PARTICIPLE
live lived lived
put put put
SIMPLE PRESENT He puts the kids to bed at 8.
SIMPLE PAST He put the
kids to bed at 8 last night.
SIMPLE FUTURE He is going
to put the kids to bed at 8 tonight.
PRESENT PROGRESSIVE He is putting
the kids to bed right now.
PAST PROGRESSIVE He was putting
the kids to bed, but they all wanted water.
PRESENT PERFECT He has put
the kids to bed already. HIGHER LEVEL
read read read
She reads everyday.
She read the book last
night.
She has read the book
already.
I finish my work every
day.
I finished all of my
work last night.
I will finish my work soon.
I am finishing my work as
we speak.
I was finishing my work
when I noticed a problem.
I have finished all of
my work already.
I have studied English
for two years. I will keep on with it.
We have studied English
for two years.
You have studied
English for two years.
Mei has studied English
for two years.
He has studied English
for two years.
Sarah and Michelle have
studied English for two years.
area for improvement- vf vt agr
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NUMBERS and NUMERALS
Write them out: one two three four five six seven eight nine
Use numerals: 10 11 12 56 142 1000000
Different style guides give different advice.
Pick a style that you like and stick with it.
My style is one, two, three… eight, nine, and then 10, 11,
57, 12056
She has two sisters. He has 15 books in his bag.
She has 2 sisters. XXX
I am 21 years old. My birthday is June 21st.
ordinal numbers
one – first
two- second
three- third
ordinal number-
describing a noun
First Avenue
I got my first job.
We did our first test.
She lives on the third floor.
She knows a lot about China in the 15th Century.
This is our second anniversary.
She is his fifth wife. He is her seventh husband.
special usage- king/queen
King Charles the Third will be on the new 20-dollar bill.
dates
October 21st
drive drove driven
Hera drives to school
every day.
Hera drove to Burnaby
yesterday.
Hera has driven 10000 km
so far/already this year.
formats for numbers: 10 000 10,000
10000
Great Garbo was a movie star in the 1930s.
Jun moved to Vancouver is the early 2020s.
eat ate eaten
She eats an apple every day. SIMPLE PRESENT
She ate an apple yesterday. SIMPLE PAST
She will eat/is going to eat an apple tonight. SIMPLE FUTURE
She is eating an apple right now. PRESENT PROGRESSIVE
She was eating an apple at lunchtime when she found a worm.
PAST PROGRESSIVE
IDIOM An apple keeps the doctor away.
She has eaten her apple
already. PRESENT PERFECT
CONTINUE TOMORROW
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Let’s get into our chat groups of 5-6 people.
Discuss the “Thought Questions”
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