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See you at 11.
Good morning.
Today’s agenda:
1. Continue with adjective forms.
2. NEXT CLASS -Sentence combining. I emailed you the exercise yesterday.
3. Test – paragraph on an easy topic.
Monday - continue with adjective work, descriptive writing
- continue with sentence combining work
On Monday, I will not be here. You will have a substitute teacher. Cathleen will teach you on Monday. She is not just a teacher; she is also a real writer. I will put her email and Zoom information on our blog on Sunday.
Our picture today is of Tobermory, Ontario.
Adjectives – descriptive words, describe nouns
10. I was bored/ boring at the movie.
bored – your emotion, your feeling
11. That movie was bored/ boring. That's why I left the movie early.
boring – describing the thing itself, our perception
12. The little boy was terrified/ terrifying by the scary movie.
terrified – emotion, very scared
13. The movie was terrified/ terrifying because it had many horrible, evil monsters in it.
terrifying Flying in a plane is terrifying to Sarah.
terrified Sarah is terrified of flying in a plane.
flying in a balloon
‘flying’ – people who assume you mean in a plane, not on a rocketship
14. The child was delighted/ delighting/ delightful by the delicious bowl of ice cream.
The music was delightful.
The music was delighting the audience.
15. Everyone on the team was thrilled/ thrilling to win the championship!
The soccer game between Real Madrid and the grade 5 kids was thrilling.
16. The green, slimy fuzz growing on the old food was disgusted/ disgusting.
disgusting – turns your stomach Watching my sister eat turns my stomach.
Racism turns my stomach.
17. That movie is very depressed/ depressing because the father dies at the end.
The poor woman feels depressed. She has depression.
18. Treasure Island is an excited/ exciting book because it has a lot of adventures, pirates, and sword fights in it.
19. The dog is always very excited/ exciting when we let her ride in our car.
My dog gets excited when someone knocks on the door. He wags his tail and runs to the door.
20. The Wild Roller ride at the amusement park is very, very fast and very excited/ exciting!
-pronouns - all singular
someone Someone is at the door.
anyone
everyone Everyone is happy that it is Friday.
something
anything
everything
somebody
anybody
everybody Everybody except you loves ice cream.
we, them, they – plural
person / people
police – usual plural
The police are chasing me.
police officer – singular
money – singular
collective nouns
money
group
fish
deer
water
Test #7
Write a short paragraph (150 words) on the following topic. Focus on good simple, compound and complex sentence.
Email it to me by 12:30.
Remember:
1. Doublespace
2. Indent
3. Write a block of sentences
What are your plans for the weekend?
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