EF67
Today’s agenda
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Final day of Presentations- Tuesday people
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Essay work
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Continue parallelism
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Continue sentence combining exercises
Wednesday
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Essay – pass in essay
Thursday
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Continue parallelism
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Continue sentence combining exercises
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Wrap-up, review
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Optional replacement test
Friday - Final day
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Final reports, final marks
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One-on-one meetings
Presentation
10 points
1 pt initial email
1 pt prep check-in
4 pts writing
4 pts talking
1.PREWRITING – planning your essay, making a little plan to
organize what you want to say in each paragraph in your essay
2.WRITING- actually writing the sentences and paragraphs
Practice Essay
Write an organized five-paragraph or multi-paragraph essay
of 300-350 words on ONE of the following topics.
CHOOSE ONE:
1.
What You Would Do if You Won the Lottery?
2.
Legalized Doctor-Assisted Suicide
3.
Overcoming a Difficult Time in Your Life
4.
What are the secrets of a happy life?
5.
Bicycle as an alternative means of
transportation
FREE ADVICE: Organize
your ideas before you write.
Be specific.
Write good
sentences.
Parallelism
Parallelism is a higher-level aspect of writing
style. Parallelism means using words and phrases that are similar or in
structure or form. This technique adds symmetry, strength, and balance to your
writing.
Mei is tall, thin, and strong. adjectives
Mei is tall, thin, and has strength. not parallel
Words, phrases, and clauses have to go together,
just like clothes. If they don’t go together well, they clash. When your
writing clashes with itself, readers lose confidence in you. When they lose
confidence in you, they stop reading.
Make sure lists of words, series of phrases match
within your sentences:
1. word forms for words in a series.
Adjectives go with adjectives, nouns go with nouns, verbs go with verbs-
INCLUDING TENSE! This is also true for adjective/noun combinations.
2. prepositional phrases
3. clauses. Independent clauses in compound
sentences often
sound
better when they are parallel.
A few examples of parallelism within sentences:
1. You need to work quickly and decisively.
2. IDIOM
Like father, like son. Like mother, like daughter.
3. This is not only just what I
wanted, but
also just
what I needed.
4. Congress needs to either reduce spending or raise taxes.
5. She is sneaky and manipulative.
6. In the parade the Boy Scouts presented
the colors, the band marched and the mayor rode in a convertible.
7. Mother was very busy gathering the
laundry, dusting the furniture and washing the dishes.
8. To survive, you need water, food and
shelter.
EASIER EXERCISES
1.
The
understudy had bright green eyes, a great mass of blonde hair,
and her face was red. adj n
The understudy had bright
green eyes, a great mass of blonde hair, and a red face. adj
n
2. When winter
comes the Joneses will have to find either a warmer house or they will have to
find a wood stove.
3. When Moe
was in high school, his parents spent a good deal of time not only helping him
with his homework assignments but also they participated with him in school
activities.
4. It is better to be happy than being to
be sad.
Polished writing- very
professional
5. The word
for left means "deceitful" in Italian, "awkward " in
German, "malicious" in Spanish, and Russians define its meaning as
"sneaky."
The
word for left means "deceitful" in Italian, "awkward " in
German, "malicious" in Spanish, and "sneaky" in Russian.
Italian- sinistra – sinister
French- gauche- unsophisticated
English right-correct left-
Mandarin left- demotion
6. The contract was illegible, lengthy, and it is awkward.
The contract was illegible,
lengthy, and awkward. adj
7. To think that you can do anything is deceiving
yourself.
To think that you can do anything is to deceive yourself.
Thinking that you can do anything is deceiving yourself.
- Strive to keep elements
parallel.
8. Aspiring
actors go to Hollywood to become stars and because they want to make money.
Aspiring actors go to Hollywood to become stars
and (to) make money.
9. The
tourists amused themselves by playing shuffleboard, watching plays, and they
went to trendy restaurants in the center of the city.
10. Before you
order anything, you should not only check with the purchasing agent but also
the comptroller.
11. The
radiologist examined the MRI both carefully and with competence.
The radiologist examined the MRI both carefully
and competently.
The radiologist examined the MRI both with care
and competence.
care(n) careful(adj) carefully(adv) care(v)
12. Please
return the medical records either to Dr. Jones or Dr. MacIntyre.
13. This sofa is
better for beauty, for appearance, and it is comfortable.
14. Succeeding
at something is not necessarily the same as to get what you need.
Succeeding at
something is not necessarily the same as getting what you need. Sounds
good
To succeed at
something is not necessarily the same as to get what you need.
15. The process seemed to Beth both a bore and annoying.
The process seemed to Beth both boring
and annoying. adj
The process seemed to Beth both a
bore and an annoyance. n
annoy(v) annoying(adj)
annoyance(n)
Tongue twister: What noise annoys
an oyster most? A noisy noise annoys an oyster most.
Listening Questions
16.
Which will dissolve in water: salt, sand, or
gravel?
17.
What is 10% of 100.
18.
How many strings are on a violin?
19.
Does the sun rise in the west or in the east?
20.
Dog is to paw as horse is to ...what?
hoof
21.
Was Vincent Van Gogh an explorer or a painter?
22.
What sea borders the coasts of Greece, Spain,
and Italy?
The Mediterrean Sea
23.
How many seconds are in 2½ minutes?
24.
Snakes have teeth. True or false?
fangs
