English Foundations 5/6
Good morning, everyone.
We will get started at 8:30.
Today’s agenda
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Quiz#2- compound sentences
·
Review Test#1
-paragraph writing
·
POSTPONE Amnesty International- letter writing,
letter format
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HW Read “Residential
Schools” for Monday. I will email this to
you today.
Monday
-Continue with paragraph work “Topic Sentence”
Next week
Monday to Wednesday
–Focus on First
Nations
-Thursday ,September
30th- Nation Day for Truth and Reconciliation
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/maple-leaf/defence/2021/07/federal-statutory-holiday-national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation.html
*Note: Thursday, September 30 NO SCHOOL
Grabber- 7 ways to
choose from
Topic sentence- clear, connected to the question
Which article from UNDHR did you choose? Why?
Good topic sentence linked closely to the question
TS “I chose Article 19 which is about the right to
education. I chose it for three reasons.”
Supporting sentences- 3-4 reasons why you chose that article
TRANSITION TERMS-
Concluding sentence- wrap up the paragraph, nice ending
“I hope that all people in the world will have access to
education no matter their age, gender, or status.”
IMPORTANT – Quality of the sentences. SIMPLE COMPOUND
COMPLEX
Every sentence that you write has to be simple, compound or
complex.
Intro to Academic Writing “Golden Week”, 2p, p.c.
“Golden Week”
No grabber “Have you ever heard of Golden Week in Japan?”
Begins with a TS (Topic Sentence) -topic, controlling idea,
predictor #
Supporting points (pattern of point and subpoint)
Pt1- point
-subpoint
Pt2 – point
-subpoint
Pt3-point
-subpoint
Pt4 – point
-subpoint
-subpoint
-subpoint
(more
clarity, more important, most important holiday)
Balance between the points. Make a more imprtant point a bt
longer.
However, the points shopuld be balanced in length.
Don’t worry about the fancy vocab. I’m just talking about
the organization of the paragraph.
sub – under, lower
“The Topic Sentence”
topic + controlling idea- what you want to say
about it
New York is a fun place to be on New Year’s Eve.
1 Times Square
2 watch fireworks
3 entertainment- music
4 countdown
5 ball drops
6 yell Happy New Year!
topic + controlling idea
New York has great entertainment.
1 Broadway, musical theatre, show
2 sightseeing -Times Square, Empire State Building, Statue
of Liberty
3 sports- baseball, basketball, football, hockey
4 music – jazz, classical,
5 art galleries
New York is wonderful place to visit at Christmas time.
Vancouver is a fun place to be in the winter.
1 skating
2 special winter shows
3 ski hill like Whistler, Seymour, Cypress- skiing,
snowboarding sliding
4 watch a hockey game downtown – Canucks
5 see the Xmas lights- Van Dusen Gardens
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/paragraphs_and_paragraphing/index.html
Some more phrasal verbs
https://7esl.com/phrasal-verbs/
Relationships
fall for – fall in love with
fall for – believe a lie ‘She fell for his lie.’ ‘I’m not going
to fall for that.’
I wasn’t born yesterday. – I am not naive.
I was born in the morning, but not this morning.
date night- go out to a movie or a dinner
make up – We had an argument but then we made up.
make up – tell a story not true I made up a bedtime story for my daughter.
put down – criticize a person, say bad things about them
John was putting down Joe at ther party last night.
badmouth(v) Maryam likes to badmouth her sister, Shirin, behind
her back.
backbite(v)
Maryam was badmouthing Shirin to her face.
ghost a person – stop communicating with them
put up with- tolerate, bear, have patience with
Young parents have to put up with a lot of sleeplessness.
Maria does not want to put up with her boyfriend’s anger
problems.
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