EF6 8:30 March1

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30.

 

Today’s agenda

 

1.    Questions from Friday

2.    Quiz#3 adverb clauses

 

Tomorrow- noun clauses

Later this week – adjective clauses

 

By the end of this week, we will have covered all of the sentence types in English.

SIMPLE

COMPOUND

COMPLEX – adverb clause, noun clause, adjective clause

COMPOUND COMPLEX

 

 

 

Questions from Friday:

meanwhile – semicolon word COMPOUND

meanwhile – while we are waiting for something to happen

We will do our quiz at 9:50; meanwhile, let’s talk about some questions that came up last class.

Sheila is going to go to UBC in September; meanwhile, she is working on her writing skills at SHEC.

SHEC- South Hill Education Centre

The movie will start at 7:50; meanwhile, let’s grab some coffee. COMPOUND – semicolon;       , SOBA

 

postpone- delay

take a raincheck – Let’s do it later.

My friend asked me to go for a walk with him yesterday. I was busy at home. I told him that I would take a raincheck. I asked him if I could take a raincheck.

 

I told him that I would take a raincheck. COMPLEX- noun clause

I will teach this tomorrow.

 

 

ADVERB CLAUSE STYLE:

We went for a hike up the mountain yesterday although it was cold.

 

We went for a hike up the mountain yesterday; it was cold though. COMPOUND

 

Because of covid, we have to take online clauses. prepotional phrase

Because we dealing with covid, we have to take online classes. adv cl

 

The kids played video games after supper. SIMPLE

After supper, the kids played video games. SIMPLE

The kids played video games after SV supper. COMPLEX

The kids played video games after they had supper. COMPLEX

After we ate supper, the kids played video games. COMPLEX

 

These are the kinds of things that we have been working on.

Have you been practicing this on your own or are just thinking about it during class time?

This will take a lot of practice to get, far more than just thinking about it in class.

 

For example, I have a guitar teacher. I take a guitar lesson from him once a month. The other 29 days of the month when I don’t have a lesson, I practice seriously and with focus. I practice every day. I practice 20 minutes in the morning and one hour every night.

 

The secret to improving in any skill is steady daily practice. I hope you are giving yourself the wonderful gift of steady daily practice.

 

 

within – preposition -

inside , in

You must finish your driver’s knowledge test within the allotted time.

allotted time, allocated time, set time, given time, assigned time