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Good morning, everyone.
We will get started at 11:00.
Today’s agenda:
·
Review Quiz adj cl
·
Scenario dialogues –
finish those, present them
·
Review sentence types
·
Introduce sentence
combining work
·
HW Try some of the sentence combining exercises.
Monday
·
Begin persuasive
writing
·
Sentence combining
·
Replacement quiz for
people who signed up for it.
Tuesday
·
Check your marks with
me if you want.
Bring your quizzes
and tests in to check.
Wednesday
·
Letter writing,
business letter or email, formal letter or email
Thursday
·
Final test, persuasive
paragraph
Friday
·
Review
·
Marks day
Quiz#5
Write a sentence with an adjective
clause for each.
1.
organic that
The organic apples
that we bought were very expensive.
2.
food that
I like the Morrocan
food that my daughter made.
3.
product which
The company built
a product which can help you talk to ghosts.
4.
store that
My son likes to
shop at the store that has big discounts.
5.
people who
The people who
have been doing all the housework for me at home have been my parents.
The people who are
singing the national anthem are my classmates.
6.
customer who
The customer who
came yesterday to pick up his TV is a good person.
That is the custumer
who was very rude to me.
misplaced modifier
Helen helps a lot of patients who
is a nurse. wrong place
Helen who is a nurse helps
a lot of patients.
My sister has a dog who is a
secretary. wrong place
My sister who is a secretary
has a dog.
Scenarios – dialogues.
Finish those dialogues now.
30 minutes- 11:55
1.
Briefly tell us your scenario.
2.
Read your dialogue
aloud.
3.
We will listen and
enjoy.
ADVICE:
Speak a
bit more loudly than usual.
Speak a
bit more slowly than usual.
Review of
sentence types:
*SIMPLE
SV SSV
SVV SSVV Imperative
Interrogative
*COMPOUND
SV, SOBA
SV. so or but and
*COMPLEX
adverb
clauses
noun
clauses
adjective
clauses
Now,we
are going to bring them all together.
Sentence
combining – very effectice, very useful for improving sentence writing skills
beginner
level – university level
Example:
We were
riding bicycles. KERNEL – centre, basis of our final sentence
Look
for new information:
We rode on the Seawall.
JOIN THE
ELEMENTS TOGETHER
We were
riding bicycles
on the
Seawall
Decide:
simple, compound, complex
Gut reaction,
feeling for it
SIMPLE We
were riding bicycles on the Seawall.
We were riding
bicycles which we rode on the Seawall.
grammatically
– fine
style- unnecessary
repetition, poor sentence
overwritten
We were
riding bicycles, and we rode on the
Seawall. COMPOUND
repetition
overwritten
for such a simple idea
Judgement
call – What is the easiest, simplest way to express the ideas?
2. Our
bicycles were rented. KERNEL
Our bicycles
were red and white. new information
Combine
these elements:
Our
bicycles were rented
red and
white
simple?
compound? complex?
simple: Our
bicycles were rented, red and white. XXX
1 Our
rented bicycles were red and white. nice style
We
rented bicycles were red and white. XXX
2 We
rented bicycles that were red and white. complex- adj cl
3 Our
red and white bicycles were rented. simple
4 The
bicycles that we rented were red and white. complex – adj cl
5 The
bicycles that were rented were red and white. passive voice – sounds weaker
than active voice
**
If you
can write the same information out in five different ways, you’ll be ready for UBC.
Sentence
Combining C-48
1.
She read a
story. KERNEL
The story was funny.
It was in a newspaper.
She read a
story
funny
in a newspaper
SIMPLE
She read a funny
story in a newspaper.
COMPOUND
She read a
story in a newspaper, and it was funny.
COMPLEX
She read a
story that was funny in a newspaper.
Which one do
you prefer?
You get to
decide. You have the choice. You have the skills to write the sentences.
Try a few for
homework. Email them to me if you want.
IMPORTANT: Try
different sentence types! Have a good mix of sentence types.
