Good morning, everyone.
This is the Period 2 (12:00-2:15 am) class for these
courses:
English Foundations 4
English Foundations 5
We will get started at 12:00.
Teacher: Al Haley
Email address: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca
Class blog: haleyshec.blogspot.com
Today’s agenda:
·
Distribute Know More English
Record name and number
·
Begin simple sentence work
·
Classmate introductions- volunteer BONUS PT
Thursday
·
Begin goalsetting module
·
Continue simple sentence work
Friday
·
Continue goalsetting module
Know More English
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sentence work
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next few weeks
Please don’t write it the books.
Treat them gently.
We are a small school with no
money for new books.
I have not checked book deposits
yet. I will check them tomorrow on the computer.
1. SIMPLE
2. COMPOUND
3. COMPLEX
Simple
Sentence
A simple sentence
is one group of words that has a subject and a verb and expresses a complete
thought.
Different types of
simple sentences:
SV – 1 subject + 1
verb
SSV- 2 subjects + 1
verb
SVV- 1 subject + 2
verbs
Imperative
(command)- tell someone to do something
Interrogative
(question)- ask someone a question
* SV – 1 subject +
1 verb
Your friend is beautiful/handsome.
Sarah does her homework at night.
Your brother
works in construction.
Begin with a
capital letter.
End with a period
or a question mark.
Don’t write in all
capital letters. The only capital letters should be the first letter of the
first word in a sentence and the first letter of proper nouns.
YOUR BROTHER WORKS
IN CONTRUCTION. XXX
Your brother works
in construction.
We go on vacation.
SV
‘we’ plural- more
than one, two or a thousand
proper nouns- caps
names of cities,
days, months, countries, languages, people’s names, first person pronoun “I”, companies,
landmarks
Vancouver, Tehran, Beijing,
Friday, Monday, Christmas, Hallowe’en, April, June, China, Iran, Canada,
Canadian, Mexican, Persian, Yemen, Yemini, India, Indian, English, French, Mandarin, Turkish, Sarah,
Ken, Dave, Mohamed, I, Nike, Starbucks, Under Armor, the Steamclock, the Eiffel
Tower, the Great Wall of China, the CN Tower, the Taj Mahal.
seasons No
I love spring.
We have Spring
Break in March.
We have Winter
Break in winter.
* SSV- 2 subjects +
1 verb
My sister
and I go on vacation.
Your book
and your pen are on the desk.
The dog and
the cat are playing with each
other.
The old man
and the old woman are talking with
each other.
The parks
and the trees in Vancouver are
nice.
*SVV- 1 subject + 2
verbs
My wife cooks and washes
the dishes everyday.
I clean the bathroom and do the laundry.
I drive my car to school and study English five days a week.
Sarah likes swimming but hates biking.
You are a teacher and a father. SV
Mohammad likes dogs but does
not have a dog right now. SVV
Shira bought a new phone and sold her old one. SVV
Manuel is from Mexico but lives in Canada. SVV
** Thinking about
SV helps to structure your sentence.
When I write for
school or work, I always have SV in my mind.
SV = Subject Verb
I subject pronoun, goes into S place of a
sentence
me object pronoun, goes into the O place of a
sentence
My friend and I/me
go to the park.
My friend and
I/me go to the park.
My friend and I go
to the park.
My friend was talking to I/me.
SVO
* Imperative
(command)- tell someone to do something
You close the
door. omit the subject
Close the door.
Please close the door. Close the door, please.
(You) Tell me about
yourself.
Introduce yourself.
Speak up! Speak
louder!
Hurry up!
Tell me about your
school.
Please hurry up.
makes it sound more polite
Please close the
door.
Close the door,
please.
AUTHENTIC USAGE
FROM THE INTERNET
Please remain
seated until the seatbelt sign is off.
Buckle your seat
belt, please.
! – exclamation
point – high energy, high emotion
Watch out!
Be careful!
Listen to me!
Please be quiet.
Be quiet!
Have a cookie!
Have a cookie.
Come in. Sit down.
Relax.
argument- Shut up!
Go away! Stop!
What a nice day.
What a nice day!
seems like too much emotion
What a beautiful
baby!
Hello! – lot of emotion-
haven’t seen each other in a long time
Hello.- talk to
husband
*Interrogative
(question)- ask someone a question
How are you?
What are you doing?
What does this word
mean?
argument- What is
your problem?
What happened?
What’s going on?
How’s it going? What is happening? CASUAL TALKING
What time is it?
Is it 2 o’clock
yet?
Where are you from?
Where is that?
Where is your
phone?
Where is South
Hill?
REVIEW of simple
sentences:
SV
SSV
SVV
SSVV
Imperative
Interrogative
predicate = verb
Know More English
p108-9
Ex. 27
1. simple
subject and predicate
1
subject 1 verb
SV
The
tree is losing its leaves.
I
will go to work in the afternoon.
2. compound
predicate
2
verbs
SVV
The
old man is cutting his grass and trimming his hedges.
3. SSV
4. S
?
5. SV
6. SS
7. SVV
8. SVV
?
9. SVV
HW Write a few (3-4) simple sentences from your
own imagination.
Try a few different
styles of simple sentences: SV SSV SVV SSVV
Imperative Question.
Email them to me by
5PM. ahaley@vsb.bc.ca
We will share them
in class tomorrow.
SSV My mother and I went to the cinema.
My husband and I went to the gym.
My dog and my cat love each other.
My husband and I went to the gym.
I and my husband went to the gym. XXX
Me and my friend went to the gym. VERY
CASUAL TALKING
Suddenly, the radio and the TV turned off.
SIMPLE
I like ice cream
but hate white chocolate. SVV
COMPOUND
I like ice cream,
but I hate white chocolate. SV ,
SOBA SV
Examples of Simple Sentence:
1. Joe went to
the store. SV subject+verb
2. Sarah and Jessie are going swimming. SSV
3. The frog jumped
and landed in the pond. SVV
The airplane took off and landed.
SVV
4. Keep your eyes open for bargains.
Imperative- command, tell someone to do something
Close the door. You
close the door.
Open the window.
Sit down here.
Use sanitizer.
Wash your hands.
Look right.
Be careful.
Wear your mask.
Let it be.
Make me some supper.
Please make me a sandwich.
Make me a sandwich, please.
Please open the door.
Open the door, please. *Use a comma
Watch out!
Come in. Sit down. Have a seat. Have some tea.
Shut up! Get out! Drop dead!
5. The pizza smells
delicious. SV
6. There is a fly in the car with us.
there/here -not subjects
There is a fly
in the car with us.
Here is/are your
keys.
Here is/are your
glasses.
My glasses are
old.
scissors – The scissors are dull.
chopsticks- The chopsticks are made of wood.
The pair of chopsticks is made of wood.
The pair of scissors is dull.
7. Look on top of the refrigerator for the key.
Imperative, command
Look!
8. The printer is
out of paper. SV
9. Will you help me with the math homework?
Interrogative – question
Are you hungry?
Do you want to drink water?
Do you want to have some/any water?
Did you call me?
You called me.
What is your name?
Your name is
Jessie.
10. The music is
too loud. SV
Adapted from :https://www.softschools.com/examples/grammar/simple_sentence_examples/445/
So far: SIMPLE SENTENCES
SV
SSV
SVV
Imperative (command) V
Interrogative (question)
CLASS BLOG: haleyshec.blogspot.com
Introduce your partner.
Stand up.
TIPS FOR TALKING TO A GROUP
1.
Speak up a bit. Talk louder than usual. Raise your
voice.
2.
Look around. Make some eye contact.
3.
Speak a bit more slowly than usual.
TOPICS- No need to do all of the topics. Just choose some of
them.
1.
Name
2.
Home
3.
Family
4.
Job
5.
Travel
6.
Hobbies
7.
Future plans
She is eleven years old. She is an eleven-year-old girl.
This course is nine weeks long. This is a nine-week course.
-
hyphen
She works in a Japanese restaurant.
She has been here for
five years. present perfect verb tense
She has lived here for
five years. present perfect verb tense
present perfect- from then until now
He has worked at his job for four weeks. present perfect
verb tense
He has been working at his job for four weeks. present
perfect continuous/progressive verb tense ‘ing’
from then until now, probably will continue
I have lived here for six
years.
I have been living here
for six years.
Her hobby is listening to music.
Her hobby is NOUN. soccer/shopping.
listen(v)
listening(n) – gerund
Hiking is fun. I like hiking. noun
I am hiking. verb
The older daughter was born in China. passive
voice
The older daughter borned in China. XXX
passive voice – the subject is not doing the verb
Marie ate a
cookie. active voice
The cookie was eaten
by Marie. passive voice
The older daughter was born in China.
Present Past Participle
eat ate eaten
drink drank drunk
drive drove driven
read read read
put put put
pay paid paid
bear* bore* born
*not commonly used, very old words
drunk (adj) Your grandmother
got drunk at the wedding.
drunk (v) The orange
juice has all been drunk.
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