EF 3/4 June 4

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Good morning.

Today’s agenda:

1. Noun clauses

2. Test – short paragraph, a basic topic

3. Homework

Reminder: Registration for the summer course began yesterday. If you want to take a class in the summer, you should register soon. Some classes fill up quickly.

My 8:30-12:00 EF5/6 class is almost full.

We will not be meeting for 3 ½ hours. We will likely be meeting about 90 minutes per day.

For example, this class, EF3/4, is scheduled for 11-1:15. However, because we doing it online, we meet everyday for only about one hour. We don’t meet for the full 2 ¼ hours.

It will be the same in the summer. The summer class is scheduled for 8:30-12. However, because it is online, we will probably from 8:30-10 or maybe 9-10:30.

I will give some homework to do every day.

This is what many teachers are doing now. This is what I am doing, and it seems to be working well.

 

Sentence types – extremely important

* Simple

SV

It is raining today. We won’t go out.

* Compound

SV SV    , SOBA  ,so    ,or   ,but   ,and

It is raining today, so we won’t go out.

* Complex

- adverb clauses

because if when

We won’t go out today because it is raining.

Because it is raining, we won’t go out today.

We will go out when it stops raining.

When it stops raining, we will go out.

- adjective clauses

who that which

Sarah’s brother who lives in Hong Kong is very worried right now.

Maria got a new kitchen appliance that makes bread.

Maria also got a new necklace which her daughter gave to her for her birthday.

- noun clauses

Used with these verbs: feel think know believe remember understand say

that why how

think - that

I think that tomorrow will be sunny.

Maria thinks that Joe is telling the truth.

believe - that

I believe that you are my best friend.

Sarah believes that she will have a happy future.

I’ll keep giving examples. You write some of your own example in Chat, and we can share.

know – why

I know why my son is crying.

Michelle knows why Dave is late today.

 We don’t know why Sarah is so angry.

Your examples:

1. I know that summer class will start in July.

I know that summer class will be starting in July.

2. I believe that my son cares about me.

subject verb agreement

3. Only God knows why things happen.

4. Erika knows why she bought that book.

5. I don’t know why she is sad today.

6. I think that English is very hard.

7. I don't know why my neighbor is always making lots of noise.

Noise complaints for Vancouver:  https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/get-help-with-noise.aspx

8. I believe that some things happen to teach us lessons of life that we need to learn. noun clause adj cl

9. I don’t know why a lot of people are here.

10. I can understand why she is happy.

11. I don’t know how to explain my idea to you.

12. I don’t know how to explain to you that you should 

care about yourself.

I don’t know 1. how to explain to you 2. that you should care about yourself. 2 noun clauses, too much for this class

13. My father is convinced that he will sell his house.

14. My father thinks/believes/knows that he will sell his 

house.

15. I hope that you will be my teacher in the next class.

I think that I will be late tomorrow.

I hope that you have a great day.

I know what you mean. I understand what you are saying.

I don’t know how to speak German. -different style, n cl

Sarah doesn’t know how to cook Persian food.

Anil knows how to run a successful business.

HOMEWORK EXERCISE: Find the noun clauses in the following sentences:

1. My friend thinks that he will get an A in Math 12.

2. I think that the milk has gone bad.

3. He thinks that the computer isn’t working well at all.

4. Your mother says that you should be nice to your brother.

5. My father knows that he has to watch what he eats.

6. Her sister doesn’t know what she should do about her lazy teenaged son.

7. I'll tell you what he said.

8. He doesn't understand that you can’t learn English by sitting silently in class.

9. He continued to do what he wanted despite his wife’s advice.

10. I'll buy you what you want.

Test – Write a short paragraph on the following topic.

(100-150 words)

Email this to me as an attachment by 12:45.

1. Doublespace.

2. Indent the first word.

3. Write the sentences into a paragraph.

4. Do our own writing.

Topic: Why are so many people demonstrating in the US and Canada right now?