Wednesday, 21 October 2026

EF71011 P2 Class 30

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Talk about spoken presentations

·      Quiz 4- adjective clauses

·      Continue verb tenses- present perfect

·      Continue “Bike-sharing programs can help cities reduce missions and congestion”

Thought Questions

Test 3 Thursday

·      IF TIME Begin noun clauses- final kind of clause

·      “Noun Clauses” HANDOUT 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

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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Presentations- 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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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

 

These are foundational.

 

 

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   ------------------------------à

 

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

eat                                    ate                                    eaten

live                                    lived                                 lived

put                                    put                                    put

cut                                     cut                                     cut

read                                  read                                  read

drive                                 drove                 driven

 

 

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. PRESENT PERFECT

finish

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.

 

 

study

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.

 

live

We have lived in Vancouver for two years.

We have lived in Vancouver since two years.

We have lived in Vancouver since DATE/TIME.

We have lived in Vancouver since 2024.

 

VERB TENSE- present perfect progressive

We have lived in Vancouver since 2024. sounds  sounds more permanent

We have been living in Vancouver since 2024. sounds more temporary

 

How long have you been here?

I have lived here for six months. -suggests permanence

I have been living here for six months. – suggests temporary, maybe planning to go somewhere else

 

I have studied at SHEC for one year.

I have been studying at SHEC for one year.  planning to move on

 

I have/Mei has been working as an Uber driver since 2024.

 

IDIOM side hustle- a part-time extra job

free-lance job/gig- small contract work, one-off jobs

 

I have been teaching at SHEC for a long time.

I have taught at SHEC for a long time. more appropriate

 

I have been saving money, but pizza keeps calling.

 

I have been saving money for a new iphone. temporary

 

She has saved a lot of money for retirement.

 

 

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

 

0= zero, nil

computer code – null

 

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.

King Charles III will be on the new 20-dollar bill.

 

dates

October 26th

November 5th

Your birthday is June 20th.

 

 

 

 

 

formats for numbers: 10 000    10,000    10000

5,000,000   50 000 000      50000000

 

Greta Garbo was a movie star in the 1930s.

Jun moved to Vancouver is the early 2020s.

She is in her early 30s. He is in his late 40s.

He is in his mid 20s.

She is in her late teens.

 

Temperatures in Vancouver of August are usually in the high 20s.

 

 

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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