EF 3/4 June 17

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See you at 11.

Good morning.

Today’s agenda:

1. Sentence combining work, sentence review

2. Test Descriptive writing pass-in paragraph (5-6 sentences)

3. Homework Sentence combining “At the Beach”. I will 

email this to you today. Try some for homework. we will work on it together tomorrow.

Our picture today is of Adam’s Lake, Saskatchewan 

Sentence combining work

Goal: To learn to write a variety of sentence types in English.

Developing learners sometimes use English words, but not English sentence types. – translate from their home language

We are learning how to put our rich thoughts into English.

Everything you write in English, you have to put into these sentence types: simple, compound, complex

If you forget about simple, compound, and complex, then your writing will not be English. It will be something else – your made-up language, mix between your first language and English.

**** The tools that we must know how to use. ****

SIMPLE

SV

COMPOUND

SV SV  , SOBA

COMPLEX

-adverb clause

-adjective clause

-noun clause

****     *****

This is most important. We can never get away from it.

We are going to keep working these for the last week and a half.

Sentence combining is, in my mind, the best way to improve sentence writing.

I think you will find it useful and challenging.

Our goal is to be able to write a variety of sentence types with confidence and skill.

Test – descriptive paragraph

Write a description of the picture of Adams Lake, Saskatchewan. 

It should be about 150 words.

Use descriptive words to describe the picture.

descriptive words – opinion, colour, size, shape, etc.

Don’t tell a story. Just describe what you see.

Email it to me as an attachment by 12:15.