English Foundations 5/6
Good morning, everyone.
This is our A Group.
The B Group meets tomorrow.
From Monday, we are all together.
We will get started at 8:30.
On Monday, we will be back to school like normal- M-F.
Remember: All of these notes will go onto the blog at the
end of class everyday.
My blog- haleyshec.blogspot.com
Today’s agenda
1.
Review of yesterday
2.
Ice-breaker- Interviews
3.
Begin overview of sentences
4.
Game or knots
On Fridays, I want to do something
unusual- game? teach you some knots? For next Friday, bring a piece of rope,
about two feet long.
Questions from yesterday? Anything unclear?
Pass-in quiizes and tests (begin next week) – choice – paper
or email
Writing quizzes and tests on paper
– regular 8 ½ X 11 inch lined paper
- double space
your writing, write on a line, skip the next line
* I will
write my comments and corrections on the empty lines
-keep your
writing between the margins (red lines)
- Write in pen, not pencil. Black
ink gets higher marks than blue
ink (a little joke). Please, no red
ink or pink ink or green ink or
silver ink.
- Write you full name, class, and
date in top righthand corner, please.
Writing quizzes and tests on computer.
- Write the quiz or test using a
work processor. Save the file as an attachment. Email me the attachment.
-Using MSWord is easiest. There are
other free programs that you can use.
REVIEW
1.
Write your quizzes and tests using a word processing
program like Word or Wordpad or Textedit. We can talk about these later.
2.
Save your quiz or test file on your computer. This file
will be the attachment.
3.
When you save your file, give your file a meaningful
name.
e.g. Don’t name it “Document 15”
Name it “Your
name, class, time, Quiz#”
“Joe
Chen, EF3, 11:00, Quiz2”
4.
Attach your quiz or test file to your email.
5.
In the subject line of the email, write “Your name,
time, class, Quiz#”
6.
Send the email.
7.
I will get your email a few seconds later.
8.
I will read your writing and make comments.
9.
Then I will return your quiz or test to you by email.
10.
You can open the file and read my comments.
Two choices for writing quizzes and tests– paper or email.
Which one do you think you will do?
Either one is ok.
FREE ADVICE #2- Don’t avoid email becuase you don’t know how
to do it. You can learn it.
We do not have computers for students in our little school.
You would have to bring your own computer. $$
Phones can be harder to work with, but some students seem to
be able to do it.
-Use a legible font size. font- the type of letter, font
size- 8-72
Use a 14 to 16 point font size. 16pt
Use a 14 to 16 point font size.
14pt
Use a 14 to 16 point font size.
8pt Too small!
Use a 14 to 16 point font size.
48pt Too big!!
14-16 is a nice legible font size.
* Good for all email correspondence or letters.
- Pick a nice-looking font.
e.g. Calibri Arial
Times New
Roman Georgia
Not good choices: Snap
Goudy Stout Comic
Sans Jokerman
Choose a font that looks professional.
- spacing – double spaced or 1.5 spaced
Example paragraph (single spaced):
Canada is one of the best countries
in the world to live in. First, Canada has an excellent health care system. All
Canadians have access to medical services at a reasonable price. Second, Canada
has a high standard of education. Students are taught by well‐trained teachers
and are encouraged to continue studying at university. Finally, Canada's cities
are clean and efficiently managed. Canadian cities have many parks and lots of
space for people to live. As a result, Canada is a desirable place to
live.
Example paragraph (double spaced):
Canada is one of
the best countries in the world to live in. First, Canada has an excellent
health care system. All Canadians have access to medical services at a
reasonable price. Second, Canada has a high standard of education. Students are
taught by well‐trained teachers and are encouraged to continue studying at
university. Finally, Canada's cities are clean and efficiently managed.
Canadian cities have many parks and lots of space for people to live. As a
result, Canada is a desirable place to live.
Example paragraph (1.5 spaced):
Canada is one of
the best countries in the world to live in. First, Canada has an excellent
health care system. All Canadians have access to medical services at a
reasonable price. Second, Canada has a high standard of education. Students are
taught by well‐trained teachers and are encouraged to continue studying at
university. Finally, Canada's cities are clean and efficiently managed.
Canadian cities have many parks and lots of space for people to live. As a
result, Canada is a desirable place to live.
*You can use the school wi-fi. “VSB-Visitors” PW- BackToSchool
The school wifi can be dodgy and slow.
You do not need any book deposits. Everything will be
provided for you either online or on paper. You can print the material if you
want or view it on a device.
Ice-Breaker- an exercise to help people relax in a new
environment, with new people
Interviews
1.
Talk to your table partner. Get some information on the
following topics:
a)
Home
b)
Family
c)
Job
d)
Hobbies
e)
Travel
f)
Future plans
Relaxed, nice chatting.
2.
Make some notes so you don’t forget the information.
3.
HW Write a short
intro for your partner. Be prepared to introduce your partner to the class on
Monday and submit your short piece of writing. This won’t be for marks- this is
a dry run for passing in written work. You can submit your little intro on
paper or by an emailed attachment.
Overview of sentence types (today and Monday)
These are the sentence types that I will be teaching you-
next two or three weeks.
-some of this you will already know, a lot will be new
I will try to go a little deeper into the sentence types.
Four sentence types:
SIMPLE
COMPOUND
COMPLEX
COMPOUND COMPLEX
Foundations for all of your writing. When I write I use
these sentence types.
Quick overview – I will teach it in detail over the next few
weeks
SIMPLE – one clause subject + verb
The dog is sleeping. SV
The dog and the cat are sleeping. SSV
The kids are running and yelling. SVV
You and I drink coffee and argue talk / chew the fat.
SSVV
chew the fat- talk casually, gossip
I like to chew the fat with my son and daughter.
Imperative – command Close
the door! Stop making so much noise.
Interrogative – question Is it going to rain today?
COMPOUND – two independent clauses put together, two simple
sentences put together
, FANBOYS for and nor but or yet so
, SOBA so or but and
The dog is sleeping. The cat is awake. 2 simple sentences
Join together with , SOBA
The dog is sleeping,
but the cat is awake. Compound
sentence
*You need the comma ,.
Canadian residents are
becoming much more relaxed about Covid transmission, but they should be aware of rising numbers.
SV, SOBA SV.
Replace , SOBA with ; semicolon
The dog is sleeping,
but the cat is awake.
The dog is sleeping,
but ; the cat is awake.
The dog is sleeping;
the cat is awake.
Canadian residents are
becoming much more relaxed about Covid transmission, but ; they
should be aware of rising numbers.
Canadian residents are
becoming much more relaxed about Covid transmission; they should be aware of rising numbers.
Add transitional words
; however,
; therefore,
; also,
HUNDREDS OF THESE TRANSITONAL
WORDS. We will learn 20 or 30.
The dog is sleeping;
however, the cat is awake.
Canadian residents are
becoming much more relaxed about Covid transmission; nevertheless, they
should be aware of rising numbers.
This is good writing, good enough for UBC.
We will continue on Monday.
HW for Monday
·
Short intro paragraph (6-7 sentences) for your
partner.
·
Get paper and pen.
·
Bring a device if you have one (You do not need
this).
Monday
1.
Continue overview of sentences
2.
Partner interviews- spoken and pass-in
3.
Read something for HW
4.
Tuesday
1.
Begin simple sentences
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