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Thursday, 19 November 2020

11:00 EF5/6 Nov 19

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Today’s agenda:

1. Review of Test#1

Doing our own work in order to learn.

This is about the last level that a teacher will be teaching you about sentences.

Translating software is not your friend. It is a crutch. It is not a recipe for success.

2. Correction codes

example sentences from Test#1

3. Simple sentences

4. HW Pick a few sentences from your Test#1 paragraph that

have problems. Tomorrow, we can share them in chat and figure out how to make them better. This will be anonymous, so no need to feel shy.

I play a lot of music. learn new song

1. write down the chords on paper- never internalize the music

2. learn it by heart- learn the music by heart, almost physical learning

Language is social.

Watching movies is too passive. You have to be active in your language acquisition.

build social groups in Vancouver – community centres, sports, Meetup.com

Covid19 ruined everything! It won’t last forever.

Social meetings online –

I’m Zoomed out.

idioms – the heart of a language

language exchange – Russian for English trade, all languages

https://www.mylanguageexchange.com/

When I was learning Japanese, I learned to speak and listen mostly by hanging out with Japanese friends. I played pool, went hiking, drank beer, had fun and communicated as well as I could with them.

FREE ADVICE #1: If you want to learn a language, get a boyfriend or girlfriend who speaks that language. You will be a good speaker within six months.

High emotion = high learning

From a fellow student: I try to speak English with my family, but they cannot be patient with me.

Test #1

Write a well-organized unified paragraph on the following topic.

Submit as an attachment by 12:20pm. Don’t be late.

150-200 words

Doublespace

14-16 point font

Indent

Writing prompt: What things are you most looking forward to for when Covid19 is over?

Correction Codes

art

Maria ate an apple.

awk- awkward, does not sound like authentic/real English

1. direct translation from your language

2. translating software

CS comma splice – two sentences separated by a comma

Marie ate an apple, she also had a coffee. CS

FIX

Marie ate an apple. She also had a coffee. two simple sentences

Marie ate an apple; she also had a coffee. compound sentence

prep – words that show direction, place, orientation

in on by to for from under above

all used idiomatically

phrasal verbs – verb + preposition

look + prep

look at

look to “Sarah looks to her friends when she is trouble.” ask for help

look after

look up

look up to – respect “Dave looks up to his uncle.”

look down on – don’t respect

put

take

draw

walk

Sarah’s new boyfriend walks all over her. He disrespects her.

If you want to really start getting into the heart of English, start learning phrasal verbs.

50- https://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/english-phrasal-verbs/

390- https://www.skypeenglishclasses.com/english-phrasal-verbs/

2000- https://7esl.com/phrasal-verbs/

For homework for tonight, learn all 2000 phrasal verbs. (joke)

Could you try a few each day? 5 a day? 2 a day?

FREE ADVICE #2 The secret of acquiring a skill is steady daily practice.

Learn a few a day, and in a year you will be in pretty good shape.

I practice music every day. I practice about 20 minutes in the morning and about one hour every night.

RW- rewrite Try it a different way.

SV – subject + verb

8:30 EF5/6 Nov 19

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Today’s agenda:

1. Doing our own work in order to learn.

This level is about the last level where a teacher will teach you about sentences.

2. Correction codes

3. HW Choose a couple example sentences from your Test#1.

Share them tomorrow on the chat. It will be anonymous, so you don’t have to feel shy.

Tomorrow: We will start on simple sentences

Language is social. The best and probable only way to learn a language well is to learn it in social settings: friends, community, etc.

If you try to learn English in isolation, relying on technology, it often does not work well.

Listen to Hyejin. She is wise.

A translator is not your friend. It is a crutch.

Let’s not be dependent on technology.

When I was learning Japanese, I took Japanese classes.

Mostly, I hung out with Japanese friends. I played pool. I played sports.

I drank beer. We told jokes.

FREE ADVICE #1: If you want to learn a new language, get a boyfriend or girlfriend who speaks that language. Guaranteed, you will speak pretty well within a year.

Almost always, people who are good speakers have learned it socially. You can’t learn to speak and listen by studying grammar.

Covid19 makes this almost impossible right now.

Social groups to meet with – Meetup.com

hiking, cycling

Be careful! If a strange man says, “Let’s meet under the Knight Street Bridge”, don’t go.

Watching movies with subtitles is fun and feels good; however, it is passive learning. Passive learning is not very effective.

e.g. I can watch people play tennis, but it won’t make me a better tennis player. If I want to learn to play tennis, I have to get a racquet and get on the tennis court and start running around trying to hit tennis balls.

That is active learning.

Correction Codes

CS – comma splice

I want to meet my friends again, also I want to visit my home country.XXX

, comma is not strong enough

FIX:

I want to meet my friends again. Also, I want to visit my home country. two simple sentences

I want to meet my friends again; also, I want to visit my home country.

compound sentence

Do you have any examples of comma splices from your paragraph from yesterday? Write them in the chat and we can share them.

prep – around 75 in English, 61?, a lot!, confusing!!,

small words but big effect

MY OPINION- prepositions are the heart of English

If you know your prepositions, you know English.

STUDENT EXAMPLE:

1. You can`t travel, so people can`t see their families or they got separated from their loved one. AWK PRON, divide into sentences

People can`t travel, so they can`t see their families. They got are/feel separated from their loved ones.

NICE SENTENCES – compound, simple

FREE ADVICE#2: Avoid very long sentences. At our level of English, it is easy to lose control of long sentences.

Stick to shorter, clearer sentences.

SIMPLE, COMPOUND, COMPLEX – that’s what we want right now

Sarah has two cat in her house. # XXX

Sarah has two cats in her house.

Wednesday, 18 November 2020

11:00 EF5/6 Nov 18

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Today’s agenda:

1. Introduction to sentence types, overview of sentence types

2. Test #1

3. HW

Today place in Canada: Adam’s Lake, Saskatchewan

Sentence types: very important, very useful

Quick overview of sentence types

1.SIMPLE

2.COMPOUND

3.COMPLEX

99% of the time, these three sentence types will allow to write anything you want.

1.SIMPLE

subject and a verb

Subject+Verb

SV “It is raining.”

SV “Today is cold.”

“The dog likes apples.”

SSV “You and I are talking on the phone.”

SVV “The dog is sleeping and snoring.”

2.COMPOUND

SV SV – two simple sentences in a row, connected together

coordinating conjunctions FANBOYS for and nor but or yet so

most useful, high-frequency usage: so or but and

not used very often, low-frequency usage: for nor yet

“It is raining, so we can’t play soccer.”

“You can come to school, or you can go to work.”

“I like chocolate, but I don’t eat it everyday.”

“Joan likes hiking, and she likes skiing.”

; semicolon

“It is raining; we can’t play soccer.”

“You can come to school; you can go to work.”

“I like chocolate; I don’t eat it everyday.”

“Joan likes hiking; she likes skiing.”

This way, with transitional terms, sounds better.

“It is raining; therefore, we can’t play soccer.”

“You can come to school; alternatively, you can go to work.”

“I like chocolate; however, I don’t eat it everyday.”

“Joan likes hiking; also, she likes skiing.”

3.COMPLEX

-adverb clauses

“Sarah doesn’t want to talk to Maria because they had an argument.”

“If it rains, we won’t go to the beach.”

-noun clauses

“Mohammed thinks that he should call his brother.”

“The little girl believes that there is a monster in her closet.”

-adjective clauses

“Fatima’s neighbour, who is 86 years old, still lives on her own.”

“Marta has some nice boots that she got from a fancy store in Tokyo.”

- commas around adjective clauses – complicated

I will teach it next week.

Overview – Over the next few weeks, I will teach these sentences styles to you in great detail. If you learn these styles, you will be able to do anything in English that you want: school, job, life, writing.

SIMPLE

COMPOUND

COMPLEX

If you are willing to come with me on this journey through English sentences, you will learn a lot.

Test #1

Write a well-organized unified paragraph on the following topic.

Submit as an attachment by 12:20pm

150-200 words

Doublespace

14-16 point font

Indent

Writing prompt: What things are you most looking forward to for when Covid19 is over?

8:30 EF5/6 Nov18

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Today’s agenda:

1. Introduction to sentence types, overview of sentence types

2. Test #1

3. HW

Sentence types: very important, very useful

Quick overview of sentence types

1.SIMPLE

subject and a verb

SV “It is raining.”

SV “Today is cold.”

SSV “You and I are talking on the phone.”

SVV “The dog is sleeping and snoring.”

2.COMPOUND

SV SV – two simple sentences in a row, connected together

coordinating conjunctions FANBOYS for and nor but or yet so

most useful: so or but and

not used very often: for nor yet

“It is raining, so we can’t play soccer.”

“You can come to school, or you can go to work.”

“I like chocolate, but I don’t eat it everyday.”

“Joan likes hiking, and she likes skiing.”

; semicolon

“It is raining; therefore, we can’t play soccer.”

“You can come to school; alternatively, you can go to work.”

“I like chocolate; however, I don’t eat it everyday.”

“Joan likes hiking; also, she likes skiing.”

3.COMPLEX

adverb clauses

“Sarah doesn’t want to talk to Maria because they had an argument.”

noun clauses

“Mohammed thinks that he should call his brother.”

adjective clauses

“Fatima neighbour who is 86 years old still lives on her own.”

SIMPLE

COMPOUND

COMPLEX

If you are willing to come with me on this journey through English sentence, you will learn a lot.

Test #1

Write a well-organized unified paragraph on the following topic.

Submit as an attachment by 9:45am

150-200 words

Doublespace

14-16 point font

Indent

Writing prompt: How is Covid19 affecting your life?

Tuesday, 17 November 2020

11:00 EF5/6 Nov17 Zoom link and class notes

See you at 11.

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Today’s agenda:

1. Review email protocols and comments

Yesterday homework- email with attachment

I responded with a comment “Can you read this comment?”

Were you able to able to send the email with an attachment?

Were you able to read the comment?

If yes, no problem.

If no, we have to sort this out today.

2. Work deadlines

All of the quizzes and tests will be timed

e.g.

Test#1

Paragraph (150-200w)

Please email me the test as an attachment by 12:15

Writing prompt: What is your favourite flavour of ice cream? Why?

Some students have been using googledocs to write their tests and quizzes.

To see my notes, use this website: https://onlinedocumentviewer.com/Viewer/

Pages app for Mac.

3. Plagiarism and cheating

Plagiarism is growing problem. Copying from the internet for tests and quizzes.

Cheating – serious problem

First time- 0%, letter to the principal

Second time – 0%, probably withdraw

Third time – not able to take more courses

4. Begin paragraph structure and format

Paragraph – 7-8 sentences together

-150-200 words

- a block of writing

- doublespace

- indent the first word of the paragraph, use the TAB key, right beside the Q key

Singlespaced

Some students are still having trouble seeing my comments on their writing. I use Microsoft Word to mark your writing and provide comments. Microsoft Word is the software that Vancouver School Board provides to teachers. If you have MSWord, you should be able to view my comments on your writing. If you do not have MSWord, you may be able to view my comments on your writing using an online viewer. I found this one: https://onlinedocumentviewer.com/Viewer/

You may be able to find another one that you like better.

Doublespaced

Some students are still having trouble seeing my comments on

their writing. I use Microsoft Word to mark your writing and provide comments. Microsoft Word is the software that Vancouver School Board provides to teachers. If you have MSWord, you should be able to view my comments on your writing. If you do not have MSWord, you may be able to view my comments on your writing using an online viewer. I found this one: https://onlinedocumentviewer.com/Viewer/

You may be able to find another one that you like better.

1.5 spacing

INDENT TAB key

You may be able to find another one that you like better.

5. HW Figure out how to indent, doublespace and set your

font size.

Figure out the attachments and comments. Email me if you want to check.

Tomorrow- We will begin to review sentences.

Test #1 – pass-in paragraph, general topic

focus on paragraph format & good

sentences

Example for tomorrow’s test around 9:00am

Test #1

Submit the paragraph as an attachment by 9:45am

150-200 words

Double space

14-16 point font

Writing prompt: What is your favourite flavour of ice cream? Why?

8:30 EF56 Zoom link and class notes

See you at 8:30.

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Keep your mic muted until you are ready to talk. That cuts down on the extraneous noise.

extraneous – extra and unwanted, negative thing

extra – extra butter on your popcorn, good thing

extraneous- extraneous noise

new vocabulary word?

Today’s agenda:

1. Review email protocols and comments

2. Work deadline – I won’t accept late work.

All the tests are timed. The deadline is the deadline.

e.g. 10:05

Get it in on time or it won’t be marked.

Make sure you give yourself a few minutes to spare in case you have a problem sending the attached quiz or test to me.

If you have a reason why you have to be late, then I can arrange another time for you to do the test.

All the quizzes and tests will be sent as attachments and submitted via email.

3. Plagiarism and cheating

Plagiarism means copying from the internet or a book.

Cheating means getting your sister to write the test for you.

First time: 0% and a letter to the principal

Second time: 0% and withdraw

Third time: Probably not allowed to take classes any more.

I won’t cheat you. Don’t cheat me.

4. Begin paragraph structure and format

5. HW Figure out how to indent, doublespace and set your

font size.

Figure out the attachments and comments. Email me if you want to check.

Tomorrow- We will begin to review sentences.

Test #1 – pass-in paragraph, general topic

focus on paragraph format & good sentences

Yesterday you sent me an attachment though email. I commented on it and sent it back. If you could read my comment, then everything is ok.

Some people had some trouble, but we sorted it out.

Is anybody still unable to send an attachment and read my comment?

It has to be an attachment.

.doc .rtf

Some people used googledocs and downloaded the document as an .rtf file and then emailed me that attachment.

If you are still having trouble, today is the day to figure it out. Tomorrow we will be doing out first test.

Please send me a practice email if you want to check it.

Check the blog after class for everything that we cover is class.

haleyshec.blogspot.com

Hi everyone,

Some students are still having trouble seeing my comments on their writing.

I use Microsoft Word to mark your writing and provide comments.

Microsoft Word is the software that Vancouver School Board provides to teachers. If you have MSWord, you should be able to view my comments on your writing.

Go to Review - Show Markup - Comments.

If you do not have MSWord, you may be able to view my comments on your writing using an online viewer.

I found this one: https://onlinedocumentviewer.com/Viewer/

You may be able to find another one that you like better.

Best,

Today is the day to sort this out. Send me an email with an attachment if you are still having trouble.

We are trying to make the technology work for us. It is challenging.

Paragraph structure and format

paragraph - 150-200 words

- a block of writing

- doublespaced – standard for all schools writing, not for

business writing

- indent the first word of the paragraph, use TAB key

TAB key is beside the Q on your keyboard, TAB or arrows

Singlespaced

You may be able to find another one that you like better.

Doublespaced

You may be able to find another one that you like better.

1.5 spacing

INDENT TAB key

You may be able to find another one that you like better.

Example for tomorrow’s test around 9:00am

Test #1

Submit the paragraph as an attachment by 9:45am

150-200 words

Double space

14-16 point font

Writing prompt: What is your favourite flavour of ice cream? Why?

Monday, 16 November 2020

Message for my wonderful students: How to read my comments on your papers

Hi everyone,

Some students are still having trouble seeing my comments on their writing.

I use Microsoft Word to mark your writing and provide comments.

Microsoft Word is the software that Vancouver School Board provides to teachers. If you have MSWord, you should be able to view my comments on your writing.

Go to Review - Show Markup - Comments.

If you do not have MSWord, you may be able to view my comments on your writing using an online viewer.

I found this one: https://onlinedocumentviewer.com/Viewer/

You may be able to find another one that you like better.

Best,