EF7/10 Sept. 25

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Good morning.

We’ll get started at 11.

Today’s agenda

1. Sentence combining

2. “Using Quotations”

3. HW Confessions podcast. 

“I Confess” – a person making a public confession about something they did in the past that they were unwilling to reveal

Many people have storied that they are keeping secret.

podcast: Simon Mayo’s Confessions podcast – radio BCC (British Broadcasting Corporation) – listeners would write in and confess something that they has done in the past – funny stories

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrvdq/episodes/downloads

Choose one of the episodes. You listen on the webpage or you can download it.

Choose one of the stories in one of the episodes.

Each episode will have 5 or 6 stories.

Choose one of the stories (4-5m). 

Listen to it several times to understand what happened to the person in the story. You may have to listen a few times, depending on your listening skills.

We will write about it on Monday.

This will be a good listening challenge.

Review of sentences-

SIMPLE

COMPOUND

COMPLEX

-adverb clauses

-noun clauses

-adjective clauses

The basics that we have to know. Being able to write these sentences and clauses will be a great value to you in your life in Canada.

-read a lot, studied how good writers expressed their ideas

-listened to good speakers who could express their thoughts clearly and beautifully, copy them, speech patterns, vocabulary, expressions

heroes – Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, John McWhorter, 

Being able to speak and write clearly absolutely changed my life.

I did a tremendous amount of work to build those skills.

Being able to write and speak well is a gift to your life.

We are learning these basic but fundamental skills. They are the foundations of all good writing. We can never get away from simple, compound, and complex.

Sentence combining: the best way to practice sentence writing, practical, useful

Goal: to put all of the short sentences together into one big sentence

1. Students have gathered. KERNEL centre of our sentence

Look for new information in the other sentences:

Coaches have gathered. ‘coaches’ is new  ‘have gathered’ is not new

Parents have gathered.

They have gathered for the provincial final.

The final is in senior girls’ basketball.

Students have gathered.

coaches 

parents 

for the provincial final

is in senior girls’ basketball

Students, coaches, and parents have gathered for the provincial final which is in senior girls’ basketball. COMPLEX

Students, coaches, and parents have gathered for the provincial final in senior girls’ basketball. SIMPLE

These are top-quality sentences that would be good for any university or professional writing.

With practice, the sentence combining will become faster and more efficient. For now, we are going slowly and carefully.

2. The players enter the floor area. KERNEL

They enter from the dressing rooms.

They begin to warm up.

They receive a standing ovation.

The ovation is from their supporters.

The players enter the floor area

from the dressing rooms

begin to warm up

receive a standing ovation.

is from their supporters

1. The players enter the floor area from the dressing rooms and begin to warm up; they receive a standing ovation from their

supporters. COMPOUND

2. When the players enter the floor area from the dressing rooms and begin to warm up, they receive a standing ovation

from their supporters. COMPLEX 

3. The players enter the floor area from the dressing rooms, and as they begin to warm up, they receive a standing ovation from their supporters. COMPOUND COMPLEX

4. The players receive a standing ovation from their supporters after they enter the floor area from the dressing rooms and

begin to warm up. COMPLEX

5. The players enter the floor area from the dressing rooms, and they begin to warm up; meanwhile, they receive a standing ovation from their supporters. COMPOUND COMPLEX

6. SIMPLE? The players enter the floor area from the dressing rooms, begin to warm up, and receive a standing ovation from their supporters.

Lots of choice! You can keep it basic or get fancy, depending on your wishes and your skill level in writing.

I will email an exercise to you. Try a few for homework. We can share some on Monday.