EF34 describe grandmother, review Quiz#3

 

EF34

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 11:00.

Monday is a holiday: Thanksgiving, October 11

 

I have a meeting tomorrow about Adult Education for the whole province.

There will be another teacher here.

 

Wednesday – Hump Day! middle of the week heading for the weekend

 

 

Change to the class from now on. We will do more talking/speaking exercises daily.

 

Today’s agenda:

·      Continue descriptive writing- paragraphs from homework

Read the paragraphs aloud. We will listen and enjoy.

 

·      Begin noun clauses

·      IF TIME Review Quiz#3

 

 

 

Thursday

·      Review simple and compound sentences

This is a review of the sentence writing work we were doing up to last week.

·      Descriptive writing.

1.    Spread the pictures out on a table.

2.    Each student chooses one.

3.    Each students takes 20 minutes to write some descriptive language that describes the picture or some part of the picture.

4.    Students spread the pictures back out on a table.

5.    Students gather around.

Each student reads what they wrote. The other students and listen. NOTE: This is not a race to be first. The students should stay silent if they have figured  which picture is being described.

Ask what the key words were that revealed the identity of the picture being described.

6.    Students may wish to discuss or note new vocabulary from the others’ descriptions.

         

 

Friday

·      Review Quiz#3

·      Continue noun clauses

·      Test#3 Tuesday- descriptive para

 

 

 

Tuesday

·      Test- descriptive writng

 

 

 

Descriptive wriiting – Describe your grandmother’s/mother’s face.

Read them out loud. We’ll listen and enjoy.

 

Very nervous?!

Advice for speaking to a group:

1.    Slow down. Speak slower than usual.

2.    Speak up! Speak louder than usual.

3.    Eye contact. Look around.  

 

 

black and white hair – salt and pepper hair

drooping eyes

bags under your eyes

wrinkles in the corners of your eyes- crow’s feet, laugh lines

hazel eyes – mix of green, brown, yellow

vibrant eyes

 

gorgeous

piercing – pierced ears, pierced nose, pierced lip, pierced eyebrow

 

looks amenable – looks friendly

arched eyebrows

 

 

 

Quiz #3

 

Write a sentence with an adverb clause for each.

Submit it by 11:30.

 

       

1.    when               encourage

My mother encourages me when I feel down.

2.    if                       parent

Parents get worried if their children are late.

 

3.    because          family

Sheila is lucky because her family supports her.

4.    since                home

I have to go home now since I forgot to turn off my stove.

5.    although         adult

She likes to play with dolls although she is an adult.

6.    before             university

You have to finish high school before you go to university.

Before you go to university, you have to finish high school.

 

 

 

Small group chatting.

not serious, casual talking, IDIOM chewing the fat

 

Topic for today: If you could have anything that you wanted (one thing), what would you choose?

If you had been born a man/woman, how would you life be different?