WI567 Class 38

 

Good afternoon

 

Penguin Readers- different levels of writing

A Room with a View

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 8

·      Begin to talk about essay structure

Will we have time to write an essay?

·      Preposition exercises

·      Begin adjective clause- final kind of clause

·      Quiz4 – noun clauses (final 30m)

 

Work to come:

causative verbs

appositives

 

Monday, April 14

·      continue essay structure

Write an essay soon

 

Tuesday, April 15

·      Write an essay?

 

Wednesday, April 16

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test.

 

Thursday, April 17 - Final day

·      Non-instructional day

·      One-on-one meetings if you want, just like midterm

Final marks and comments

·      Preparing report cards

Submit the final marks and report cards to the office

 

 

 

 

Essay work (EF5 and above)

 

sentences—paragraphs—essays – papers (college, university: 5, 10, 20 pages) – thesis/graduating essay- graduating from degree (80-120 pages) – book (300-600 pages)- non-fiction, fiction

apply to postsec- essay

 

** sentences- sentence types: simple, compound, complex, compound-complex- next step

** GOOD SENTENCE WRITING IS THE FOUNDATION OF ALL WRITING

Building vocab, word form, verb form, preposition, phrasal verbs

Developing authentic(natural) phrasing

 

You picked a hard road to walk down. You are brave and strong! You are scared and weak? We have to be.

Have hope and vision and a target.

IDIOM Never say never. Have resolve!

 

 

** paragraphs – structure    Grabber

Topic sentence

Supporting sentences,

Concluding sentence

(150-200 words)

 

- format                - font size, doublespace, indent, paper orientation, name and class

 

** essay -multi-paragraph writing, 3, 5, 6, 7 paragraphs on a topic

 

ENGLISH 12 EXAM Writing prompt: “in essay form” “in paragraphs” “multi-paragraph” – means write an essay

“at least 300 words”  sweetspot, the Goldilocks zone (300-400ww)

Goldilocks and the Three Bears- fairy tale

 

 

paragraph - at least 150 words

essay – at least 300 words*

*You don’t have to write a book. You just have to 3-5 short paragraphs.

 

 

We will focus on the five-paragraph essay – basic model

-academic essay- school

-3X5 essay

 

“essay”- French “to try” , try to explain something in full, an attempt to describe a subject completely, an endeavour to explicate an idea

 

essay – an attempt to write a longer piece of writing that covers a topic well

 

Western school – five-paragraph essay commonly-used model

 

IDIOM a pig sty – a very messy room or apartment

This is a pig sty! It looks like a bomb hit it.

 

I don’t feel comfortable talking about that.

That’s private.

 

 

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Adjective clauses – final kind of clause

 

SIMPLE                 SV   SVV  etc.

COMPOUND       SV, SOBA SV.    SV; TRANS, SV.

COMPLEX             -ADVERB CLAUSES

                               -NOUN CLAUSES

                               -ADJECTIVE CLAUSES

 

94% use these three words:

who- people

that- things, animals

which-special things, unique things

 

low-frequency words

whom

where

whose

 

Examples:

-who

His sister who lives in Chile is a student.

Medina who is your best friend is a very gentle person.

 

NOUN CLAUSE

You said that she is a gentle person.

 

-that

The phone that she bought five years ago is working fine.

She has a cute cat that has a long tail.

I really like the long eyelashes that camels have.

 

-which

The necklace, which her father gave her for her birthday, is gold.

Beijing, which is the capital of China, is huge metropolis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quiz4

Write a sentence with a noun clause for each.

1.    think           opinion

2.    say               necessary

3.    understand delay

4.    see              manager

5.    know          curious

6.    forget         warranty