EF34 11am June 11

 

 

Good morning, everybody.

We will get started at 11:00.

Cameras on. Mics muted.

 

Friday- the happiest day of all the days.

 

I will climb Laundry Mountain tomorrow.

 

Today’s agenda:

 

·      Sentence combining work

·      Recipes from homework - discussion

·      Process writing

 

I emailed some support documents for simple, compound, and complex sentences (adverb clauses). Check them and I’m happy to answer any questions.

You can keep all of the documents for ever. I won’t delete anything. That goes for the blog as well. You can use that blog anytime, forever.

 

Sentence combining: very good to practice and improve sentence writing

Puts into practice all of the grammar and sentence work we have done so far.

very practical applications – useful, not theory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

School Dance

 

1.    The gym was filled with teenagers. KERNEL- centre

Find new information

The gym was in the high school.

 

Combine these elements.

The gym was filled with teenagers. KERNEL- centre

was in the high school.

Decide what kind of sentence we want: simple, compound, complex

Gut feeling.

SIMPLE The gym in the high school was filled with teenagers.

COMPLEX The gym that was in the high school was filled with teenagers. adjective clause

 

COMPOUND The gym was filled with teenagers, and the gym was in the high school.

Not a nice style of sentence. repetitive

 

We want to create sentence that are concise (as short as possible) and dense (has as much information as possible).

 

Combine these into concise and dense sentences.

 

2.    The teenagers were dancing. KERNEL

Find new information.

They were laughing.

They were yelling.

 

          Combine these elements. Decide what kind of sentence.

The teenagers were dancing

laughing

yelling

 

SIMPLE       The teenagers were dancing, laughing, and yelling.

COMPLEX  While the teenagers were dancing, they were also laughing and yelling. adv cl

COMPLEX  The teenagers who were dancing were laughing and yelling. adj cl

 

Try one or two and put them in Chat:

 

3.    The music assaulted their ears.

The music was echoing.

4.    It had strong rhythms.

The rhythms were booming.

5.    The music had a melody.

The melody was high-pitched.

6.    Students left the floor.

The floor was crowded with dancers.

7.    The students were thirsty.

They bought soft drinks.

The drinks were needed.

8.    The students lined up at the drinking fountain.

The fountain was constantly in use.

 

Your solutions:

1.    The students were thirsty, and bought soft drinks. XXX punc

The students were thirsty and bought soft drinks. SIMPLE

The students were thirsty, and they bought soft drinks. COMPOUND

 

2.    The students who were thirsty bought soft drinks.

3.    The students who were thirsty, bought soft drinks. punc

The students who were thirsty bought soft drinks.

 

4.    The music that assaulted their ear was echoing.

5.    The music had a melody that was high-pitched.

6.    The floor was crowded with dancers, so students left the floor.

7.    the student were thirsty, they bought soft drinks. XXX cap RO

 

8.    Because the music was echoing, assaulted their ears. XXX

Because the music was echoing, it assaulted their ears.

 

9.    It had strong rhythms, and it were was booming.

10.                       Because the students were thirsty, they bought soft drinks.

11.                       The students bought some soft drinks because they were thirty.

12.                       The music had a melody that was high-pitched.

13.                       The students left the floor, and the floor were crowded with dance. XXX

The students left the floor, and the floor was crowded with dancers.

14.                       The student were thirsty, they bought soft drink because the drink were needed. XXX

The student were thirsty, so they bought soft drinks because they were needed.

 

15.                       Since the floor was crowded by dancers, the students left the floor.

16.                       The  students were thirsty and needed drinks,  so they bought soft drinks.

17.                       The students left the floor which was crowded with dancers.

18.                       The music had a high pitched melody.

19.                       The students were thirsty, so they bought soft drinks that were needed.

20.                       The students left the floor was crowded with dance. XXX RW

The students left the floor which was crowded with dancers.

 

21.                       The students who were thirsty bought some drinks.

I’ll give a few more for homework. We can try them Monday.

 

 

At the Beach

 

1.     The group met at the beach.

They met at 10:00 a.m.

They met every day.

The beach was public.

The group met if it was sunny.

2.     The beach was hot.

The beach was crowded.

The beach was exciting.

There were children.

There were adults.

3.     Mr. Isaac sold ice cream.

It was packed in ice.

The truck was small.

The truck was in the parking lot.

4.     The teenagers lay in the sun.

They played volleyball.

The children swam.

The children ran in the sand.

5.     A group of clowns juggled.

They played with children.

The children were laughing.

The clowns gave out balloons.

The balloons were filled with helium.

6.     The beach was sandy.

The sand was white.

The white was glaring.

The water was beyond the beach.

The water was blue.

The blue was vibrant.

 

 

·      Recipes from homework - discussion

I asked you to think of a recipe that you like to make. I asked to break it down into 4-5 steps so you could teach us how to make the recipe. I asked you to write down the steps.

Who would like share their recipe? Read it out loud. We will listen and learn from you.

 

Vocabulary:

knead the dough

mix thoroughly

rolling pin

sweet potato

clove of garlic / head of garlic

tarragon

make a small incision

bake

roast

baste

simmer- low heat

reduce

 

I cook a turkey, I use an Instant Pot and then broil the outside for 15 minutes. The turkey stays moist.

 

stirfry

wok- Cantonese word, South China, Guong Zhou

 

crushed garlic

tikka masala

 

 

Thank you for the recipes.

 

 

This kind of writing is called process writing.

Process writing – teach how to do something, explain step by step how to do something, e.g. recipe

Process writing – cooking, using a computer, playing tennis, playing music, tie shoes, brush teeth, wash the dog

 

Process writing – 4-5 steps, organized by time

time- chronological, in order of time

Start at the beginning and go step by step to the end.

 

On Monday, we will start some process writing.

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