EF56 adj cl, quotations

 

 English Foundations 5/6

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30

 

 

Today’s agenda

·      Reminder about email subject line Name, Class, Time

·      Review Quiz on adj cl

·      Using qoated material, Your examples from HW

·      Continue with “The Wise Woman of Cordoba”

·      Sentence combining

·      Literary terms

 

 

Friday

·      “The Wise Woman of Cordoba”

·      Choose words for replacement quiz on Monday

·      Test#5 Paragraph on a general topic. No “”

·      Deadline for repl. quiz is 3pm Friday

 

 

NEXT WEEK

 

Monday

·      You can check your marks on Monday if you wish. Bring in your quiizzes and tests to verify your marks.

7 quizzes

4 tests

 

·      Replacement quiz at the end of class for the people who signed up for it.

 

 

Tuesday

·      Letter writing, business letter?

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Wednesday

·      Optional replacement test on “Wise Woman of Corboba”

 

 

Thursday

·      Final test- paragraph

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Friday

·      Review

·      Marks day

·      I can give your final mark.

 

 

Email protocol

Subject line of your email:

Name, Class

 

 

Write a sentence with an adjective clause for each.

Submit to me by 9:05.

 

1.    woman       who

The woman who lives next door is very friendly.

 

2.    famous       which

The Eiffel Tower, which is in Paris, is a famous tourist attraction.

 

3.    amazing     that

It was amazing that I passed the test. noun clause

We watched a ballet performance that was amazing. adjectice clause

I saw a sunrise that was amazing. adjective clause

 

amazed/amazing

 

4.    pay              that

I have to pay the debt that I owe.

He refused to pay the bill that somebody charged him in the wrong way. RW

He refused to pay the bill that somebody charged him incorrectly.

He refused to pay the bill that somebody charged him without authorization.

He refused to pay the bill that somebody charged him by mistake.

 

5.    money        which

The money that I invested is doing well.

I am saving the birthday money which my mother gave me.

I have been saving my money for a long time. SIMPLE

The millionaire paid a lot of money for the antique vase which came from Japan.

In China, children are very happy to get money which package in red letter.

In China, children are very happy to get money which comes in a red envelope.

 

6.    open           who

My aunt who is very open-minded is very close to me.

She is a woman who rarely opens her mouth. She is taciturn.

She is as quiet as a mouse.

 

He is a man who rarely shuts his mouth. He is a motormouth. He is always flapping his gums. He is a big mouth. (2 meanings- talk a lot / tell secrets, gossip)

My dad’s expression: When he dies, they will have to beat his mouth to death with a stick.

 

 

You can get lost in your sentence if you get too complicated. Sometimes we think too much.

 

Keep practicing. Email some more examples to me if you want. We can look at them together anytime.

 

 

Misplaced modifiers-

The woman who lives next door is very friendly.

The woman is very friendly who lives next door. wrong place

 

adj cl comes right next to the noun

 

My sister bought an old table. SIMPLE

My sister bought an old table who is a nurse. misplaced

My sister who is a nurse bought an old table.

The man saw a cat who was riding a bicycle.

The man who was riding a bicycle saw a cat.

 

 

Sentence review

SIMPLE

COMPOUND

COMPLEX

 

For the final week of our class, we will be using all of these together.

 

 

 

These are the example of sentences that have quoted words/material/text in them.

 

1.    Some of the people in the city of Cordoba said that the Wise Woman had “contact with the devil”.

 

2.    Surprisingly, when the Wise Woman was imprisoned, “the witch had escaped” according to the news.

 

3.    The people of Cordoba said that the Wise Woman was “married to the devil” for she never had any relationship with any men.

 

4.    The Wise woman should be "burned to death", although she escaped in the end.

 

5.    The judge saw “an enormous ship” which looked like a real ship.

 

6.    The Wise Woman was very rich because the authorities found

“ ten barrels of gold” at her home.

 

7.    The Wise Woman who can “travel across the wall” on a drawing of a ship must be a witch.

8.    The wise woman was a good person who helped people in different ways in the city “always helped those in difficulty” XXX

Not a sentence. RW

 

The wise woman was a good person who “always helped those in difficulty” in the city. LONG

9.    “was married to the devil”

People said that the wise woman would fly above the rooftops. XXX

People said that the wise woman would fly “above the rooftops”.

People said that the wise woman would fly in the sky by herself.

 

** If you write just with your own words, you do not use quoation marks. Quotation marks are only for the words that you take/borrow from the book/story/text.

 

Keep your quotations to just a few words- 2,3,4 words

You have to make a judgement call. Why are using these words? Are they your own words or are they words from the story?

“contact with the devil”

people

the

 

Only quote special words or phrases that you are borrowing from the story.

When you are writing your paragraph, you can borrow/quote/take a few words from the story and quiote them in your sentences.