1. What areas of English do you want to get better at?
2. What areas of English are you already good at?
Make notes so we can share.
Areas for improvement in our English:
1. writing -
* vocabulary - building vocabulary, learning synonyms - words that have the same meaning
sick - I am as sick as a dog. (idiom)
I am green around the gills.
healthy- She is in fine fettle.
He is bright-eyed and rosy-cheeked.
He is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
thesaurus, thesaurus.com
A thesaurus is a wonderful, useful tool for writers. I use a thesaurus whenever I do any writing.
- letter to the government, letter to my son's teacher, letter to a business, personal letters
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more specific -
-verb tenses -
-verb forms -
-order in words in sentences - sentence structure
simple, compound, complex
-order of adjectives -
The big brown dog is asleep.
The brown big dog is asleep. XXX
- word forms - adjective, noun, verb, adverb, preposition, article
happy (adjective, adj)
happiness (noun)
happily (adverb)
COMMON ERROR
"Canada is a freedom country." freedom-noun
free- adj
"Canada is a free country."
- helping verbs, auxiliary verbs
aux - extra AUX
- capital letters
- phrasal verbs, extremely important
Every day I would like to show 8-10 new phrasal verbs.
verb + preposition - the heart of English
look + at
look up
look for
look after
look up to - respect
look down
look down on - don't respect them
She looks down on people from East Van.
I always felt like he was looking down his nose at us.
look to - ask for help
- punctuation
commas ,
semicolons ;
I want you to feel comfortable with this punctuation.
- hyphen
. period
" " quotation marks
? question marks
: colon
! exclamation point
- sentence types
simple, compound, complex sentences
- clauses
adjective clauses, adverb clauses, noun clauses
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Allan Haley email: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca
Areas in English that we're already at:
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