Wednesday, 5 February 2020

Eng 11 Wednesday

Style: Beginning a sentence with a long adverbial clause or a long prepositional phrase is not a great idea.

With their razor-sharp teeth and strong jaws, great white sharks are very dangerous.

More Effective: Great white sharks are very dangerous with their razor-sharp teeth and strong jaws.

It gets to the topic right off the bat.

freeway - American term
highway - Canadian
railroad - American
railway - Canadian
ATM - automatic telling(er) machine - Canadian
ABM- automatic banking machine - American

teller - bank worker , tell (v) Old word that means 'to count'

A cashier works the till.   till/tell

You coast down the hill when you don't touch the gas or brake. coast (v)
The little kid coasted down the hill on his bicycle.

roller-coaster

nerves of steel - you don't get frazzled/freaked out easily

Calypso music - you'll feel better

Puerto Rico beaches


Homework:
Practice 3, p25
Do your book deposits.




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