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REVIEW YESTERDAY'S PARAGRAPH
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?
INDENT When you write a paragraph, you must follow some format rules. First of all, you must indent the first word of the first sentence. Second, you must doublespace your writing. Finally, you must write your sentences in a block. Follow these three rules to write beautiful paragraphs.
When you write a paragraph, you must follow some format rules.
First of all, you must indent the first word of the first sentence. Second, you must doublespace your writing.
Finally, you must write your sentences in a block.
Follow these three rules to write beautiful paragraphs.
NOT CORRECT
-no indent
-singlespaced
-not a block of writing
When you write a paragraph, you must follow some format rules. First of all, you must indent the first word of the first sentence. Second, you must doublespace your writing. Finally, you must write your sentences in a block. Follow these three rules to write beautiful paragraphs.
CORRECT
- indented
- doublespaced
- a block of writing
This is the style we want for paragraphs.
TOPIC: Why are so many people demonstrating in the US and Canada right now?
Topic sentence – first sentence, introduces the main idea of the paragraph, gives the idea of paragraph, links to the topic
e.g. Many people are demonstrating in the US and Canada because they are angry about racism.
Many people are demonstrating in the US and Canada because of several reasons.
We can see on the news that there are protests against the government because many people are upset about racism.
Supporting sentences – gives evidence, gives details, describes, teaches, explains
First, many Black people are killed by police.
There is a lot of violence against minority people.
Many people are getting hurt by police, and people are tired of it.
People are angry because there is a lot of violence against Black people.
- writing our sentences, expressing out ideas
- simple, compound, complex sentences **KEY IMPORTANCE**
Concluding sentence – last sentence
I hope that we can all live together peacefully.
The protests will continue until there is change.
Paragraph
Topic sentence
Supporting sentences
Concluding sentence
We write our own sentences. We don’t copy from the internet.
We always always want to write simple, compound and complex sentences.
HW – Revise and rewrite your paragraph from yesterday.
Email it to by tonight. It will worth a couple of bonus points.
Revise – fix up the sentences, make them as good as you can.
Simple, compound, complex
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.
‘watch what you eat’ eat healthy, pay attention to your diet
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.
understand = know
9. He continued to do what he wanted despite his wife’s advice.
10. I'll buy you what you want.
Practice for our Quiz on Monday
Write a sentence with a noun clause for each:
1. say park
2. know work
3. believe buy
I don't believe that I will buy this house.
4. know fix
5. think visit
6. understand school
Your examples:
1. I know that this work is not for you.
2. The children say that our park is better.
3. She is saying why we can't go to the park.
4. He says that you will not go to the park.
5. I think that I visited that place before.
6. I don't understand that the school is not old. Meaning?
7. I don't know why she is dating a short guy.
8. MIke knows that he must do his work.
9. She knows that you have to pay attention at work.
10. She says that we can go to the park.
11. I don't know what I need to fix my car.
12. I don’t know why she can’t fix that.
13. I believe that she will get better soon.
14. I don’t know why my work is so busy.
15. I think that next week we are going to visit Victoria.
16. I know that my son can fix the car.
17. I think why she didn't visit the country.
18. I think that I will go to that restaurant on my
birthday.
19. I can't believe that I got injured.
20. We think that visit is important.
21. They want to know how to fix the washing machine.
22. I don’t like the table that stands in the kitchen.
adjective clause – describing ‘table’
Test #5 – 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?
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