EF34 7pm June 9

 

Today’s agenda:

 

Good morning, everybody.

We will get started at 7:00.

Cameras on. Mics muted.

 

Wednesday, Hump Day

 

Today’s agenda:

 

1.    Idioms

2.    Paragraph review - grabbers

3.    Test#3 descriptive paragraph

 

Tomorrow:

-Begin sentence fragment work

-Begin process writing

 

 

 

When you write a paragraph, you should start with a grabber.

I would like to see you using grabbers at the beginning of your paragraphs.

Intro sentence- attention-getter, gets the reader’s attention

1. short anecdote- very short personal story

2. history

3. fact or statistic

4. question

5. saying

6. quotation from a famous person

7. general to specific, funnel

 

 

 

Idioms:

similes- comparison between two unlike things using ‘like’ or ‘as’

- the two things are different in nature, but we say that they resemble each other

Her son looks like five toothpicks.

My son is as thin as bamboo.

My sister’s son is like a toothpick.

She sleeps like a log.

I slept like a baby.

He looks like a million dollars/bucks. He looks great.

 

-hungry as a bear - ravenous

-crazy as a loon – funloving, silly, foolish, acts in a fun way

loony- crazy

moon – la lun – moon is associated with madness, vampires, werewolves

loony – one-dollar coin

 

-happy as a lark – very happy, very joyful

-cool as a cucumber – relaxed, does not get excited easily, does not get worried

 

-busy as a beaver/bee -

-quick as a wink  - something happen very quickly

“She finished her homework as quick as a wink.”

- in the blink of an eye

It seems like kids grow up in the blink of an eye.

 

-crazy like a fox – someone who acts stupid, but is actually very smart

Boris Johnson is crazy like a fox.

 

-as free as a bird – not attachments, independent, can do whatever you want

After May’s kids grew up and moved out, she was as free as a bird to do whatever she wanted to do.

 

-poor as a church mouse – no money, broke

When Junko was a student, she was as poor as a church mouse.

Three ways to write it: churchmouse, church mouse, church-mouse

 

Lots of others:

She is as tall as a tree.

Doris is as smart as a whip.

The little boy who was playing in the mud was as dirty as a pig.

 

Idiom: Mickey Mouse – a job that is done very poorly

Who fixed this machine? It is very Mickey Mouse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Test#3

Cameras on.

Choose one of the following pictures. Write a 100-150 word paragraph describing what you see.

You may use a dictionary to find specific vocabulary words.

Email it to me by 8:45.