EF67 Class 40- essay RW, prepositions

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 9:15.

 

Today’s agenda

·      Return essays

OPTIONAL RW for a bonus point- submit today or first thing tomorrow

·      Finish prepositions

·      Listening exercise- song lyrics

 

Friday **Final day**

·      OPTIONAL REPLACEMENT Essay rewrite – I will keep the second mark, not the highest.

·      Final reports

·      One-on-one chats or via email

Email me during class time, and I will email you back your final mark. We won’t be able to chat.

 

**Note***

Quarter 4 begins Thursday, April 27^th.

 

 

***Yesterday***

Five–paragraph essay

paragraphs- new line

                     -indented

 

Introductory paragraph

-grabber

-thesis statement

-preview 3 points

 

Three body paragraphs

Body 1

Body 2

Body 3

Concluding paragraph

-restatement of thesis statement and three points

 

Clear organization!

 

Good sentences- simple, compound, complex

 

COMMON SENTENCE ERRORS- punctuation, run-on sentences, comma splices, sentence fragments

 

PUNCTUATION  , ; .

-sentence fragment

Trying to get healthier. frag

FIX Try to get healthier. I will try to get healthy. That person is trying to get healthy. Trying to get healthy is not easy. gerund  Getting healthy is a lot of work.

SIMPLE SENTENCES

 

-comma splice

I will buy a big house for my parents, they should have a place to retire.

, a comma is not strong enough

FIX

I will buy a big house for my parents, and they should have a place to retire. OK

My parents should have a place to retire, so I will buy a big house for them. BETTER

I will buy a big house for my parents because they should have a place to retire.

My parents should have a place to retire; therefore, I will buy a big house for them.

My parents should have a place to retire; I will buy a big house for them. NOT AS COMMON

 

My parents should have a place to retire. I will buy a big house for them.

COMPOUND

COMPLEX

 

When in doubt, stick to the basics: simple, compound, complex.

They will always work.

 

 

Preposition Exercises

Ex.5

1.    I was asleep at/by midnight.

2.    in September in Seoul

3.    in 2006

4.    at 5:46pm

I have a dentist appointment at 2:30.

2:30 two thirty   tooth hurty

5.    on a bus   in a taxi

6.    At that moment    studying at ABC College

7.    pay attention to ABC    in the future

8.    in the dark     at the night

9.    on a date    seperated from her husband

10.                       staring at    at the other table   looking out (of) the window

 

Exercise 7 Multiple-choice

1.    tell us about

2.    on the couch

3.    afraid of animals

4.    beneath the tree   under the tree

5.    during

while SV     while the game was on

during the NOUN         during the game

 

6.    against

7.    behind    in front of   next to

8.    to

9.    Despite the rain, the game was not cancelled.

Because of the rain, the game was cancelled.

10.                       After/ out of

 

Ex.8

1.    to the

2.    on

3.    Within

4.    with

5.    along  /  beside

6.    since  

present perfect  -  has lived  since

7.    until

8.    among / amongst

9.    across from   The restaurant is right across the street from us.

kitty corner(informal)/ caddy corner – across the street on the other corner

The Angel Cafe is caddy corner to us.

10.                                 below

 

 

a great deal of money = a lot of money