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everyone.
We will get started
at 8:30
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REMINDER:
Tonight, 4:45-5:45,
I will continue my Sentence Writing Tutorial on Zoom.
Feel free to listen
in if you want to.
Topics for
tomorrow 1. Review main and subordinate
clauses
2.Complete
overview of the sentence types
This will be
repetition for you.
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attendance.
There is no
homework.
There are no tests.
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Today’s agenda
·
Return and review Quiz #2
·
Continue with paragraph format and structure –
grabbers
·
Continue with goalsetting module –
Prepare
some ideas for personal, educational, career
Wednesday
·
Test#1 – paragraph on a topic to be determined
·
Begin complex sentences- adverb clauses
Quiz#2
Write a compound sentence for each:
Submit it to me on paper by 9:00.
1.
therefore business
2.
however strain
3.
so great
4.
meanwhile observe
5.
fortunately accident
6.
but lead
SV, SOBA SV.
SV; TRANS, SV.
1.
Mei just opened a business; therefore, she has been working
seven days a week getting it off the ground.
2.
Dave slipped on the ice; however, he strained his back.
DOESN’T MAKE SENSE
Dave slipped on the ice; however, he got a
muscle strain. XXX
Sometimes the grammar is ok, but the meaning
is confused.
Let’s do some corrections individually and on the computer.
Joe did great work for his company so, he got a
raise. XXX PUNC
Joe did great work for his company, so, he got a
raise. XXX PUNC
Joe did great work for his company, so he got a
raise.
I wanted to open a business;
therefore, I started study business courses in a college. vf
I started study business courses in a college.
XXX
start + infinitive ‘to study’
start + gerund ‘studying’
I started to study business courses in a
college.
I started studying business courses in a
college.
** like, love, hate, prefer, start, begin, continue, can’t
stand
like + infinitive ‘to hike’
like + gerund ‘hiking’
Maria likes to hike in the mountains.
Marie likes hiking in the mountains.
She doesn’t like to eat spicy food.
She doesn’t like eating spicy food.
*HIGH FREQUENCY VERB USAGE- We use this all the time, so you
should learn it.
SOBA , so , or
, but , and
Jen is a good leader, so her staff like to work for her.
Jen is a good leader; so, her staff like to work for her.
XXX
; therefore, ; however, ; also,
; meanwhile,
We have to separate SOBA and TRANS in our minds.
* We will learn it here, so you make those errors less in
English 10/11.
It’s going very well. We have seven more weeks to polish
these SIMPLE and COMPOUND sentences.
meanwhile - things
happening at the same time
I am cooking supper; meanwhile, my daughter is sleeping.
likewise- two things happening that are very similar
I am baking cookies; likewise, my son is baking bread.
Raman plays tennis; likewise, Julie plays tennis/ badminton.
likewise – LOW FREQUENCY WORD, not an everyday word
meanwhile
in the meantime- different meaning
in the meantime- something we can do while we are waiting
Our plane leaves in two hours; in the meantime, Suphin is
going to read her book.
Jun will go to UBC next September; in the meantime, she is
going to polish her writing skills at South Hill.
My daughter will finish school in 25 minutes; in the
meantime, I will catch a few Zs
in the car.
IDIOM catch a few Zs take a quick nap
Grabbers/Hooks
-
optional attention-getting device for writing
MY ADVICE: Use a grabber. It will make your writing way more
interesting.
- for essays, for
paragraphs
- grabs the reader’s attention,
makes them pay attention, makes them want to read your writing
Some example of grabbers
i.
-general to specific statement, funnel
-say something big and
general, then narrow it down to specific topic
funnel
\ /
||
Empathy is a very normal and healthy
emotion for all humans to feel toward other living creatures. The boys didn’t
kill the pheasants because they too felt empathy for the helpless birds.
ii.
-short anecdote
short personal story, very
short (1-2 short sentences)
personalizes, first person
I grew up next to a farm, and I know that
killing animals is not easy even though it is necessary. So too, the boys
couldn’t …
iii.
-historical reference
Humans have been farming for many thousands
of years, and harvesting animals is part of farming. However, the boys
couldn’t…
iv.
-fact or statistic
80%, four out of five, 2/3
of ..., 37,000,000 people...
Living creatures cannot survive for more
than a few hours if their core temperature drops and they become hypothermic.
TOPIC SENTENCE
v.
-question (answered by thesis statement)
Have you ever gone hunting?
For some people, it is not easy to kill an animal. TS
vi.
-relevant quotation by a famous person
Barack Obama once said, “Blah
blah blah.”
My mother said, “Blah blah
blah.”
Buddha said, “Life is
suffering. We must have empathy for all living creatures.”
Books of quotations.- Have
some quotations in your memory. It is very helpful to reference when you are
writing.
vii.
-relevant idiom from any language, proverb, saying
-don’t translate well, have
a lot of meaning
·
In English we call someone who is afraid to do
something a “chicken”. However, the boys didn’t act out of fear, but of empathy
when they refused to harvest the pheasants.
In Chinese,
we say that a good job is like a ‘golden rice bowl.’
In
Persian, we say...
There is
a saying in Japanese: ‘Even monkeys fall from trees.’ It means everyone makes
mistakes. It’s important to keep going after you did something wrong.
REVIEW
of ways to do grabbers/hooks:
i.
funnel
ii.
anecdote
iii.
historical
iv.
fact/statistic
v.
question
vi.
quotation
vii.
idiom/saying
Choose
one. it will make your paragraph or essay livelier.
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