Good morning, everybody.
We will get started at 11:00.
Today’s agenda:
1. Review Quiz#6 sentence combining
2. Descriptive writing
Test#4 -Descriptive paragraph on Friday
Quiz#6
Combine each exercise in two different ways.
1. Jackie's dad is a truck driver.
He is taking a year off.
He will be with Jackie.
Jackie's dad is a truck driver KERNEL
He is taking a year off.
He will be with Jackie.
Jackie's dad is a truck driver
taking a year off
will be with Jackie
Jackie's dad is a truck driver and is taking a year off to be with Jackie.
Jackie's dad who is a truck driver will be taking a year off and will be with Jackie.
Jackie's dad is a truck driver, and he will be taking a year off
to be with Jackie.
2. Every day they do something.
They play.
They paint.
They cycle.
3. Jackie is four.
She enjoys each day.
Each day is spent with her dad.
Solutions that you want me to check:
-Every day, they do something like playing, painting, and cycling.
-Jackie, a four-year-old girl, enjoys each day that she spends with her dad.
-Every day, they are playing, painting and cycling.
four-year-old
Jackie is four years old.
Jackie is a four years old girl. XXX
Jackie is a four-year-old girl.
- hyphen
The new Avengers movie is three hours long.
It is three-hour movie.
Shira ran 10 kilometers.
Shira went for a 10-kilometer run.
More of your examples:
-Jackie who is four enjoys each day, and she spent with her dad. vt
Jackie who is four enjoys each day, and she spends them with her dad.
-Every day they play,,paint,cycle of somthing. XXX
Every day they play, paint, cycle or something.
-Jackie enjoys spending each day with her dad since she is four.
The f Four-year-old Jackie was spent each day with her dad, and she enjoys it. vf was spent
Four-year-old Jackie spends each day with her dad, and she enjoys it.
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I will teach about verb tenses next week.
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-Every day they do something they play, paint, and cycle.
Every day they do something. They play, paint, and cycle.
Both ways are ok.
Every day they do something like play, paint, and cycle.
Every day they do something like playing, painting, and cycling.
-gerunds sound more natural to me
gerund- noun with -ing hiking (noun) gerund
I like hiking.
I like to do outdoor things like hiking, cycling and camping.
When we get together we do things like sing, dance, and eat.
When we get together we do things like singing, dancing, and eating.
Different usage of ‘like’
I like to eat. You like to take a nap. She likes to dance.
-Jackie is four, so she enjoys each day spent with her dad.
Great.
-A four year old Four-year-old Jackie enjoys spending each day with her dad.
-When Jackie is four, she enjoys spending with her dad each day.
When Since/Because Jackie is four, she enjoys spending each day with her dad. *This sentence suggests that little kids enjoy spending time with their parents.
-Four year old Jackie enjoys each day with her dad. punc
Four-year-old Jackie enjoys each day with her dad.
I have noticed that your sentence writing has really been improving over the last few weeks. I feel like you have stepped up to another level.
These good English sentences can be used in school, work, life, etc.
Keep working. Practice every day.
Descriptive Writing- describing the world – five senses
five senses: the means by which our bodies communicate with the outside world
1. smell - nose
2. sight - eyes
3. taste - tongue
4. touch - skin
5. hearing - ears
descriptive vocabulary – adjectives
need a rich vocabulary- challenging
-smell – (adj) stinky, awful, fresh, sweet, floral, salty, spicy, good, bad, musty
-sight- (adj) colour- dark, light, grass green, sky blue, robin’s egg blue, turquoise, silver hair, pale, rainbow
shape- round, square, oval, triangular, rectangular,
-touch (adj) smooth, soft, hard, rough, cold, warm, silky “Her hair is silky.” oily, dry
-hearing (adj) – loud, quiet, soft, golden-voiced, sharp, melodious, musical,
-taste –(adj) sour, spicy, salty, sweet, bitter, yummy, delicious, yucky, bland, crispy, oily, strange, juicy
We’ll pick this up tomorrow and start writing some descriptive writing.
Tomorrow I will ask you to write a short descriptive paragraph (100-150 words). I will show you a picture. You will describe that picture.
Practice
evergreen trees, fir, spruce, pine
reflecting
horizon
Descriptive paragraph –
** Think of descriptive words- colour, shape, size
Begin with a topic sentence
-3,4,5 descriptive sentences
top to bottom
bottom to top
side to side
Concluding sentence
There is a beautiful picture of a lake next to some hills. On the bottom, green trees...... In the middle are two lakes that ....... At the top is the blue sky........ It is a lovely scene.
** Special day: Tomorrow for the test, you can use a dictionary to get vocabulary. You can choose some nice descriptive words.
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