Good
evening, everybody.
We will get started at 7:00.
Cameras on. Mics muted.
· Parallelism homework if required
· Continue
with persuasive writing
Thursday
· adjective
forms
· Test#5
-last test, final paragraph – persuasive paragraph
Next
week:
Monday- Continue review of grammar,
sentences, paragraphs
Tuesday-
FINAL DAY non-instruction
day, marks day, no computer meeting
Email me during classtime, I will
email your final mark to you.
Our
final day will Tuesday, June 29th.
https://www.vsb.bc.ca/Student_Learning/Adult_Education/Contact_us/Documents/20201214111947666.pdf
**
QUESTION**
What
do you want to cover that we haven’t covered yet? Tell me, and I will try to
squeeze it in in the last few days.
Parallelism – webpages for homework (optional)
Homework from two classes ago- consider the question, come up with
reasons why you agree or disagree
“Should marijuana be legal?”
Get the class members into breakout rooms:
Discuss your ideas. As a group, come up 3-4 ideas about why marijuana
should be legal, or 3-4 ideas about why marijuana should not be legal.- Based
on your homework consideration of the topic.
Discussion. Make notes so you remember the points that you
discussed.
Room 1 – Pro legal group - Marijuana should be legal.
Reasons:
Room 2 – Anti legal group- Marijuana should not be legal.
Reasons
I will create the two rooms. You can choose which room to join.
Report out from the two rooms.
Room 1 Marijuana PRO legalization
1.
assured quality, safety, standards
2.
if it is legal and available, teens are less curious about trying
it
3.
tax dollars for government rather than criminals
4.
can reduce police focus on minor drug charges
5.
medicinal value- treatment of mental and physical illnesses – Parkinson’s,
pain, depression, anxiety, diabetes, weight loss, etc.
PUT THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT LAST
Room 2 Marijuana ANTI legalization
1.
dangerous while driving
2.
bad smell, skunk
3.
lose all your friends
4.
people can become addicted, jobless
5.
bad for teenagers- effect developing brains
6.
providers can advertise if it is legal
7.
not for recreation, just for medicine
8.
gateway drug – will lead to harder drugs such as cocaine or heroin
PUT
YOUR BEST POINT LAST
Decide 3-4 best points. Put your best point last.
Choose the best 3-4 points. We don’t have room in 100-150 word paragraph
for 8 points.
Write the paragraph. (100-150 words)
Grabber
Topic sentence
3-4 points
Concluding sentence
Marijuana PRO legalization
1.
assured quality, safety, standards
2.
tax dollars for government rather than criminals
3.
can reduce police focus on minor drug charges
4.
medicinal value- treatment of mental and physical illnesses – Parkinson’s,
pain, depression, anxiety, diabetes, weight loss, etc.
Marijuana became
legal in Canada in 2018. I agree that marijuana should be legal. There are
fours reasons why. First of all, if marijuana is legal, there will be assured quality
and safety that will meet Canadian standards. Second, the governemnt will able
to collect millions of dollars in tax from the legal sale of marijuana. Next,
POLICE. Finally, MEDICINE. In conclusion, there are some good reasons why
marijuana whould be legal.
(100-150 words)
That is a persuasive paragraph.
Test#5- final test
Tomorrow, I will give a choice of two easy topics. You can
choose one and write a persuasive paragraph about it.
I will choose two topics that are not scientific or anything
like that.
Example topic: People
should live together before that get married.
Canada
and the US are racist societies.
persuasive – impersonal, no “I”
-
personal “I”, Don’t write a narrative story.
Focus on the question; don’t just write a story about
yourself.
Adjective Forms
bored – describes your emotion, feeling
boring – describes the thing itself
Choose the appropriate form of the adjective:
1.
Wendy was interested/ interesting
in that book.
The book was interesting. She was interested.
2.
I was challenged/ challenging by
my old job.
3.
My old job was challenged/challenging.
It was hard but fun.
4.
The movie was disappointing/ disappointed.
5.
The teacher was disappointed/ disappointing
with her students' work.
6.
My dog gets confused/ confusing
when I turn the lights off.
7.
My cat's behavior is often confused/
confusing to me.
8.
My cat's behavior is often confused/
confusing to me.
My cat’s behaviour confuses
me. confuses- verb
My cat's behavior is
often confusing to me. confusing- adj
The weather is hot for me.
Math is confusing to me.
Math confuses me.
The book is interesting to me.
The book interests me.
The movie is scary to me.
The movie scares me.
9.
John's habits are irritated/
irritating to his roommate.
10.
Seth feels irritated/ irritating
by his roommate's habits.
11.
I was bored/
boring at the movie.
12.
That movie was bored/ boring.
That's why I left the movie early.
13.
The little boy was terrified/ terrifying
by the scary movie.
14.
The movie was terrified/ terrifying
because it had many horrible, evil monsters in it.
15.
The child was delighted/ delighting/
delightful by the delicious bowl of ice cream.
16.
Everyone on the team was thrilled/ thrilling
to win the championship!
17.
The green, slimy fuzz growing on the old food
was disgusted/ disgusting.
18.
That movie is very depressed/
depressing because the father dies at the end.
I felt depressed after watching the movie.
19.
Treasure Island is an excited/
exciting book because it has a lot of adventures, pirates, and sword fights
in it.
20.
The dog is always very excited/ exciting
when we let her ride in our car.
She is excited about her holiday to Burnaby. Burnaby is a very
exciting city.
21.
The Wild Roller ride at the amusement park is
very, very fast and very excited/ exciting!
We will go over these proverbs tomorrow.
Proverb – saying, expression
30 Most Popular Proverbs in English for Students &
Learners
1. Many hands make light work.
2. Strike while the iron is hot.
3. Honesty is the best policy.
Liars have to have good memories.
4. The grass is always greener on the other side of
the fence.
5. Don’t judge a book by its cover.
6. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
7. Better late than never.
8. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
9. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
10. Actions speak louder than words.
Talk is cheap.
11. It’s no use crying over spilt milk.
12. Still waters run deep.
13. Curiosity killed the cat.
14. My hands are tied.
15. Out of sight, out of mind.
16. Easy come, easy go.
17. You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few
eggs.
18. The forbidden fruit is always the sweetest.
forbidden fruit (allusion, reference to another text) –
Garden of Eden, Book of Genesis, Old Testament
Emily Dickinson (1830–86)
Forbidden fruit a flavor has
That lawful orchards
mocks;
How luscious lies the pea within
The pod that Duty locks!
19. If you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.
20. It’s the tip of the iceberg.
21. Learn to walk before you run
22. First things first
23. Don’t bite off more than you can chew
24. It’s better to be safe than sorry
25. The early bird catches the worm
26. Don’t make a mountain out of an anthill (molehill)
27. Where there’s a will, there’s a way
28. Always put your best foot forward
29. The squeaky wheel gets the grease
30. A rolling stone gathers no moss
Honorable Mention: 6 of Our Favorite Lesser-Known
Proverbs
1. When in Rome, do as the Romans do
2. Birds of a feather flock together
3. A stitch in time saves nine
4. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
5. Those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
6. Absence makes the heart grow fonder
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