Today’s agenda:
Optional replacement quiz – same deal as last time
Email me by 1:30 today if you want to replace one of your quiz marks. No lates. Tell me which quiz you want to replace: Quiz 1(simple sentences), 2(compound sentences), or 3(complex sentences-adverb clauses).
The replacement quiz will be Wednesday after class.
The quiz will be 2 simple, 2 compound, 2 adverb clause sentences.
1. Noun clauses
2. Literary Terms - tomorrow
3. Tomorrow (Tuesday) – Quiz on noun clauses
Thursday class- no class meeting. Email correspondence.
Registration for February quarter will begin January 4th. I will give midterm recommendations on Thursday.
We will not have a regular class on Thursday.
Email me during regular class time (11:00-1:15pm) on Thursday if you want a midterm mark and recommendation. I will email you back your midterm mark and my recommendation whether you should register for the next level or stay at the level you are at.
My recommendation means that I think that you are ready to move up.
My cutoff for recommendations is 65%. If you are scoring less than that, you should not move up although you are marginally passing. Students who move up when they are not ready do not do well in higher level classes. I will not recommend students who are not ready.
If you pass the class with a low mark (e.g. 52%), you can register for the next level. However, I will not give you a recommendation for that.
You can roughly calculate what your midterm average will be using the method I showed you last week. In case of discrepancy, my calculation will stand.
Add them together and divide by the denominator.
Quiz marks x/3- NOTES-Quiz marks are x/6, but are worth x/3.
e.g. 4/6 =2/3
Test marks x/6
Bonus pt x/1
EF5 – EF6 – EF7/Composition 10+Literary Studies 10
English Foundations is for people who have graduated high school anywhere in the world.
Comp10+Lit10 is for people who have not graduated high school anywhere in the world.
We teach EF7 and Comp10/Lit10 as the same class.
Government rules, not school rules.
There is no EF8,9
Next comes Eng 11, then 12.
Confusing government rules.
Why? I don’t know.
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Continue with sentence work:
** EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SENTENCES:
SIMPLE – one independent clause - capital period SV
COMPOUND- two independent clauses , SOBA ;TRANS,
COMPLEX- one independent clause + one dependent clause
- adverb clauses
- noun clauses
- adjective clauses
When you get a handle on these, you will be able to write anything you want for any audience.
NOUN CLAUSES:
verbs – think, believe, know, understand, remember, forget, read, heard, say
adverb – that, why, how
that – thing, something
forget, that
Maria forgot that she had to pick up the kids at school.
hear, that
I heard that you were getting married. Is that true?
Did you hear that it is going to snow tomorrow?
how – process, way to do something
Marta doesn’t know how she can pay her rent this month.
I don’t know how I can make my daughter feel better.
Do you know how I can get better at English verbs?
Another way: how to – more common
Marta doesn’t know how to pay her rent this month.
I don’t know how to make my daughter feel better.
I don’t know how to get better at English verbs.
*May not be exactly be a noun clause, Looks kind of like a noun clause and acts like a noun clause.
Shara knows how to speak French.
Shara knows how she can speak French.
Shara doesn’t know how to speak Arabic.
I don’t remember how I can register for classes.
I don’t remember how to register for classes.
why – reason
I don’t know why I feel so tired all the time. Maybe it’s the weather.
Michele knows why her brother is angry, but she won’t tell us.
COMPOUND COMPLEX
Try a few examples of your own:
1. I don't know how to speak and write French.
I don't know how to speak or write French. – negative verb
I know how to speak and write French. – positive verb
2. My daughter doesn't know how to roast a turkey for Christmas dinner.
3. I remember last minute that I have to buy some food in a grocery store.
4. I don't understand why we can't use ‘tomorrow’ in a past tense sentence.
5. I don’t know why time flies so fast this these days.
6. I believe that with effort, the goal can be achieved.
7. Rita doesn’t believe that aliens exist.
8. My daughter doesn’t remember where she left her book.
‘where’ for noun clauses
9. My friend doesn't know why her husband died.
10. My brother doesn’t know how to tie his shoes. He is 37 years old.
11. My husband know how to used his hand to play 6 difrent instruments.
My husband knows how to play 6 different instruments.
12. I don't know how to write a professional resume for my job.
13. Everyone knows why social distance distancing must be observed.
14. I didn't know we have a class today.
I didn't know that we have a class today.
15. I want to know how to make a Canadian recipe.
16. Could you tell me how to bake gingerbread cookies?
17. I can’t understand why someone always says no news is good news.
18. I don't know why my husband is not in a good mood today.
19. People no longer know how to behave nowadays.
20. Michael read that meditation improves mental health.
21. My kids believe that Santa exists and brings presents at night.
22. I'm sorry that I have to leave several minutes early today.
am sorry
I am sorry that I ate your supper.
I am sorry that I crashed your car into your other car.
23. I don't know when I will be able to speak English well.
when
Different topic about verbs:
I don’t know how I can make my daughter feel better.
causative verb – make, help, ask, tell
causative verb – makes another verb happen
She helps her son do his homework. helps – causative – causes do
She helps her son to do his homework.
not ‘does’
She helps her son does his homework XXX
Tomorrow – quiz on noun clauses
6 sentences
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