EF34 11:00 May 14

 Good morning, everybody.

We will get started at 11:00.

Cameras on. Mics muted.

 

 

Today’s agenda:

·      Review Quiz#3 – adverb clauses

·      Continue with noun clauses

·      Idioms

 

 

Quiz#3

 

Cameras on.

Make each a complex sentence with an adverb clause. Use a different adverbial conjunction for each.

Email it to me by 12:25.

Ex.   It is late.

        Go to bed because it is late.

 

1.   May forgot her passport.

May could not get on the flight because she forgot her passport.

Because May forgot her passport, she could not get on the flight.

A name is a proper noun and must always be capitalized.

e.g. Zoom name- Use a capital letter for you first and last name.

Mohamed Bukrain

Kyle Smith

-looks professional, polished

 

2.   Could you buy some milk?

3.   Put on a sweater.

4.   Steve washed the dishes.

5.   The tall girl was smiling.

6.   We have to fix the car.

 

Let’s see some of your example from the quiz:

a.     Steve washed the dishes when she was watching the TV.

b.    Put on a sweater, so cold that outside. ?

It is so cold outside that you must wear a sweater.

It is so cold that the lake is frozen.

so ADJ that

so small that- The diamond is so small that she can barely see it.

The font on the quiz is so small that I can’t read it.

 

c.     We don't use the car unless it getting fix. vt vf

We can't use the car unless it gets fixed.

 

d.    I put on a sweater because it's cold outside.

e.    We have to fix the car before your father come to home comes home.

f.      After you finished finish/have finished the work, could you buy some milk?

g.     Steve washed the dishes because the kitchen was quite messy.

h.    Could you buy some milk, if you don't have some milk.

Could you buy some milk, if you have time.

 

i.       When Because/Since she had a lot of things to do, May forgot her passport.

j.       May forgot her passport when she was checking in at the counter in the airport.

You check in at the airport.

May checked in at the hotel.

 

k.     Could you buy some milk after you finish the work?

 

l.       Could you buy some milk for me when you are going to the grocery store.

m. We have to fix the car because it have it was in a collision.

 

collide- (v) smash together

collision (n)

 

n.    Because was cold outside put on a sweater please.

Because it is cold outside, put on a sweater, please.

 

o.    She may not cross the USA border unless she remembers to take her passport.

p.    Steve washed the dishes when he finished eating.

q.    We have to fix the car unless we have another one.

The car is not working.

The car is broken down.

 

r.      Although she is very busy, but the tall girl keep her smiling.

Although she is very busy, the tall girl keeps smiling.

 

s.     Could you buy some milk if you go out?

t.      Steve washed the dishes everyday even if he was very tired.

u.    We have to fix the car if the car still have has the same problem.

v.     Steve finish his a dinner after that he wash the dishes.

Steve finishes his dinner; after that, he washes the dishes. COMPOUND

Steve washes the dishes after he finishes his dinner. COMPLEX- adverb clause

past - Steve washed the dishes after he finished his dinner.

future- Steve will wash the dishes after he finishes his dinner.

 

w.  We have to fix the car unless we have enough money to buy a new one.

x.     The tall girl was smiling while she was looking at her boyfriend.

y.     The tall girl was smiling because she played a joke on her sister.

Who is ‘she’? Who is ‘her’?

Did somebody play a joke on the tall girl?

Did the tall girl play a joke on somebody else?

 

z.     The tall girl was smiling that/because I gave her a rose.

aa.                       Steve wash the dishes when his mother finished the cookies.

finished the cookies – ate all of the cookies

finished baking the bookies – clearer

 

bb.                      Steve washed the dishes before he cooked his dinner.

cc. The tall girl was smiling because her son passed the road test.

dd.                      I will buy some milk in the grocery store but I don't have some milk. Meaning? RW

I will buy some milk in the grocery store because I don't have any.

 

 

Monday – Quiz#4 on noun clauses

Questions about noun clauses?

 

A. think, understand, know, feel, believe, remember, forget, say

B. that how why what

A + B = make a noun clause

 

feel + that

Emiko feels that SV.

Emiko feels that she should get a raise.

 

 

 

New segment in our class- Daily Idioms

 

*Strike while the iron is hot.

Take your opportunities when you find them.

Don’t miss a chance to do something.

Don’t hesitate and allow an opportunity to slip away.

 

*Opportunity knocks.

A good chance is knocking on your door. Open the door! Let it in the good opportunity.

 

Take every chance you can to use English.

 

Lesson for today: Take your opportunities. Don’t keep your mouth shut. Have courage. Take a chance.

 

I will stay on Zoom if anybody wants to talk.

Home work is to review noun clauses.

 

dean- the head of a college or university program