EF56 adj cl

 

English Foundations 5/6

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30.

 

This week:

-adjective clauses- quiz later this week

-literary terms

-“Wise Woman”- test later this week

-using quotations

-sentence combining

 

Next week – opportunity to replace one quiz mark

                     - opportunity to replace one test mark

I will talk more about this in the next few days.

 

Today’s agenda-

·      Review quiz on noun clauses

·      Begin adjective clauses – last kind of clause

·      “Academic Vocabulary Exercise 2”

·      HW  

 

 

Tuesday

·      continue with adjective clauses

·      “Literary Terms”- plot, conflict

·      Begin “The Wise Woman of Corboda”

 

 

 

Quiz#4

Write a sentence with a noun clause for each.

Submit by 9:05.

 

1.    think                     spice

Mei thinks that the food has too much spice.

Mei thinks that the food is not spicy enough.

I think that some people don’t like hot spice.  hot food  spicy flavours

 

2.    understand         reason

I don’t understand the reason why I can’t learn English faster.

Mei understands the reason why her son is in a bad mood.

I understand what reason makes her happy. Meaning? rephrase

 

3.    say                         invite

Joe said that he invited his sister to the party.

He said that he is going to invite me to his party.

 

4.    forget                   prepare

Sarah forgot that she had to prepare a presentation for the meeting today.

I forgot how to prepare dinner for five. – slightly different style SV

 

5.    know                     flavour

I don’t know what flavour this is.

I don’t know what flavour of ice cream this is, but it tastes really good.

I know that Chinese food has excellent flavour.

Mei knows that her son won’t like the flavour.

Mei knows that her son probably won’t like the flavour of the mushrooms.

 

6.    say                         restaurant

Michelle said that the restaurant is really good.

Michelle said that the restaurant has really good food.

Michelle said that the restaurant has really good food. OPTION

You didn’t say which restaurant you want to meet at.

 

I wouldn’t know how to cook Indian food even if I wanted to.

I wouldn’t know how to change a tire on my car even if I wanted to.

I couldn’t afford to travel to Japan even if I wanted to.

 

noun clauses

that, why, how

 

think + that

understand + why

say + that

forget + how

 

 

The power of daily practice!

important – playing music

every day – practice music

practice everyday, day in, day out- improvement builds on itself

Steady, daily practice: Good result= Good emotion= Desire for more practice

The reason I do it is because I feel really good afterward.

Work first. Play later.

Make a schedule! Follow it! Hopefully you will stick to the schedule at least 50% of the time? It’s better than 0. Next week, try for 51%.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sentence styles:

SIMPLE- SV   SSV   SVV   SSVV   Imperative   Interrogative

 

COMPOUND- SV , SOBA SV.   SV, FANBOYS SV.   SV; SV.   SV; TRANS, SV.

 

COMPLEX  - adverb clauses

                    - noun clauses

                     - adjective clauses

 

Adjective clauses

 

Sentence types:

SIMPLE

COMPOUND

COMPLEX  -adverb clauses

                     -noun clauses

                     -adjective clauses

 

adjective clauses– more indepth, more detailed

 

start basic and then go deeper

 

adjective – describes a noun

the red hat adjective

adjective – opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, purpose

ORDER OF ADJECTIVES: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, purpose

 

The beautiful small new round lime-green Martian flying machine is right there. TOO MANY ADJECTIVES – PICK 2-3

The small round flying machine is right there.

 

My grandmother broke her gorgeous sky-blue English teapot.

 

adjectives – good for simple ideas

 

more complicated, in-depth description – use adjective clause

 

e.g. The teapot that my grandmother gave me is very old.

 

Three most common pronouns for adjective clauses: who that which.

 

Other less commonly used pronouns for adjective clauses: whom, where, whose * ’whom’ is rarely used

 

FOCUS ON HIGH FREQUENCY USAGE: who that which

 

who – used for people, any people, sounds nice, sounds polite and respectful

 

that- things that are not alive, animals, people ( sounds a little disrespectful, you don’t like that person)

 

which- special things (to you), unique things (only one of them)

 

 

 

Is that your son?  - different ‘that’

I want to buy that book. - different ‘that’

 

 

who- people

My neighbour who is very elderly does not like my son to play in the backyard.

who is very elderly adj cl

 

elderly – elder, senior, aged (Biblical), older, old, senior citizen

My dad is getting older. He is older now. He is 79.

 

impolite- one foot in the grave, on his last legs, knocking on Heaven’s door, on his deathbed, long in the tooth, ready to give up the ghost, on the way out

 

Sometimes people who are very elderly start to worry about going to heaven. They start going to church and praying and reading Holy books.

“They are cramming for the final.”

‘cramming for the final’ - studying all night before a big test

cram- study hard in a short period of time

‘cram schools’ – Japan, school that promote intense studying for a exam

 

Jun’s sister who lives in Spain is a nurse. SV who lives in Spain.

 

Jun’s sister is a nurse. SIMPLE

Jun’s sister lives in Spain. SIMPLE

 

Jun’s sister lives in Spain, and she is a nurse. COMPOUND

Jun’s sister lives in Spain; also, she is a nurse. COMPOUND

 

Jun’s sister who lives in Spain is a nurse. COMPLEX- adj cl

Jun sister lives in Spain because she is a nurse. COMPLEX- adv cl odd meaning

I know that Jun’s sister who lives in Spain is a nurse. COMPLEX- noun cl & adj cl

 

See the differences? Can you write these? If you can, you can do any level of class.

 

COMMON ERROR: Jun’s sister who lives in Spain.  frag, not a complete sentence

In a sentence with an adjective clause, you have to say two things.

Jun’s sister who lives in Spain is a nurse. 1 2

 

Joe who is a taxi driver lives in White Rock. 1 2

 

We can pick this up tomorrow.

Just for fun, try a few for homework. ‘who’

My mother who likes to play mahjong is elderly.

Jun’s son who is 16 loves to play volleyball.

 

Tomorrow – continue with ‘who’

- do ‘that’ and ‘which’

- commas with adjective clauses

 

e.g.    I like swimming which is good for my health.

 

My mother who is 78 is very healthy. Odd.

My mother, who is 78, is very healthy. Good.

A very small error.

Mexico City which is the capital of Mexico has a population of 8.9 million. XXX

Mexico City, which is the capital of Mexico, has a population of 8.9 million. unique, only one

Sarah’s wedding ring, which is gold, was given to her by her husband.

 

 

 

adjective forms:

surprised- your feeling, your emotion

surprising – describing the thing itself

Her story was suprising. I was surprised.

 

bored- feeling, emotion

The little kids were bored at the movie.

boring- desrcibe the thing

The movie was boring.

 

interested

I am very interested in snakes.

interesting

Snakes are very interesting to me.

 

fascinated/fascinating

amazed/amazing

captivated/captivating

confused/confusing

 

 

 

apiece – each

The apples are 75c apiece.

 

crummy – low quality, no good

The lunch was crummy.

The business was hemorrhaging money. It was losing a lot of money. I was going broke.

Jun has been feeling listless for the past two months; she is going to see her doctor. She might be low in iron.

 

psychiatry- Jun is going to talk to a psychiatrist about her anxiety.

concoct (mix ingredients together) Jeff made a concoction of Coke, 7Up, Sprite and apple juice.

 

analgesic – Aspirin, Tylenol, Aleve, Advil (liquid gel)