Thursday, 18 November 2021

EF56 Fourth class- Overview of sentence types, DST reading techniques

 

English Foundations 5/6

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30

 

 

Today’s agenda

·      Begin sentence work

Overview/Introduction to sentence types– simple, compound, complex, compound complex sentences

“Intro to Sentence Types”

·      Begin simple sentences

“Simple Sentences EF6 level”

·      Continue “Daylight Savings Time”

·      IF TIME Begin “Goalsetting”

 

 

Friday

·      Begin simple sentences

“Simple Sentences EF6 level”

·      Begin “Goalsetting”

·      I will explain about the quiz that we will have on Monday.

 

 

Monday

·      Quiz#1 on simple sentences

 

 

Re: The email attachment some people sent me yesterday

If you could read my comment, great!

If you couldn’t read my comment, then          a. keep trying.

                                                                                  b. pass in your quizzes and

tests on paper.

First time classmates today: Please ask if you don’t know what’s going on.

Al Haley

ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

Class blog: haleyshec.blogspot.com

I will post the notes from class everyday, so you can review them if you want to.

 

 

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** Overview of sentence types **

These are the sentence types that I will be teaching you- next three weeks.

-lots of detail

 

Some of this you will already know. A lot of it will be new.

I will try to go deep into the sentence types.

 

Four sentence types:

SIMPLE

COMPOUND

COMPLEX

COMPOUND COMPLEX

 

Foundation for all of your writing. When I write I use these sentence types.

 

 

SIMPLE – one clause = subject + verb

The dog is sleeping. SV Subject Verb- easiest kind of sentence

 

The dog and the cat are sleeping. SSV

Doctors and nurses are struggling with Covid19. SSV

North Vancouver and Chiba, Japan are sister cities. SSV

 

The kids are running and are yelling. SVV

Mariko is working parttime and studying at Langara. SVV

Mariko is working parttime days in Metrotown at a jewelery store and studying third-year biology at Langara in the evenings. SVV

 

 

You and I drink coffee and talk / chew the fat. SSVV

chew the fat- talk casually, gossip

My son and I like to walk around the park and chew the fat. SSVV

 

No commas SV   SSV   SVV   SSVV

 

Imperative – command  Close the door! Stop making so much noise.

Come in. Sit down. Watch out.

You sit down. XXZX

You sit down.

Sit down! exclamation mark- shows energy, makes it sound loud

!! – overused, MY ADVICE- avoid them in school writing

Great.

Great!

Great !!! XXX Ok for casual writing, not for serious school writing

 

Interrogative – question  Is it going to rain today?

How are you?

 

SIMPLE- SV   SSV   SVV   SSVV  Imperative   Interrogative

-We will do more on simple sentences tomorrow. Quiz on Monday-

 

 

 

COMPOUND – two independent clauses put together, two simple sentences put together

7 coordinating conjunctions , FANBOYS   for and nor but or yet so

4 most important , SOBA   so or but and

 

The dog is sleeping. The cat is awake. 2 simple sentences

Join together with , SOBA

The dog is sleeping, but the cat is awake. Compound sentence

*You need the comma.   ,

 

Canadian residents are becoming much more relaxed about Covid transmission, but they should be aware of rising numbers.

 

SV, SOBA SV.

 

Replace , SOBA with ; semicolon   ;

 

The dog is sleeping, but the cat is awake.

The dog is sleeping, but ; the cat is awake.

The dog is sleeping; the cat is awake.

 

Canadian residents are becoming much more relaxed about Covid transmission, but ; they should be aware of rising numbers.

Canadian residents are becoming much more relaxed about Covid transmission; they should be aware of rising numbers.

 

The really good things about semicolons is that you can add transitional words

; however,

; therefore,

; also,

; on the other hand,

;

 HUNDREDS OF THESE TRANSITONAL WORDS. We will learn 20 or 30.

 

The dog is sleeping; however, the cat is awake.

Canadian residents are becoming much more relaxed about Covid transmission; nevertheless, they should be aware of rising numbers.

 

This is good writing, good enough for UBC.

 

 

 

SIMPLE   SV, SSV, SVV, SSVV, Imperatives, Interrogatives

 

COMPOUND  SV, SOBA SV.    SV; SV.

 

COMPLEX

– adverb clauses

because when if since- I will teach you about 25. You won’t have to learn all of them, but you should start learning them. You probably know most of them. I will remind/teach you how to use them.

 

Joan isn’t going to play volleyball today because it is going to rainadv cl

Because it is going to rain, Joan isn’t going to play volleyball today.

comma usage important

 

- noun clauses- feeling, knowing- brain, talking

think know understand remember believe say

Sarah thinks that it will rain today.

Ahmed said that he would be a little late today.

We don’t know why she is angry today.

I know why my dog was afraid/scared driving home yesterday.

The dog is afraid/scared.

The dog is afraid/scared of the snake.

She doesn’t know how to fix the car.

She doesn’t know how she can fix the car.

 

- adjective clauses – who that which

My neighbours who are very young are sometimes noisy at night.

The snake that my daughter’s friend bought is very beautiful.

Hamir lives in an apartment that has a view of the Northshore mountains. He can see the snow-topped peaks in the wintertime.

 

COMPOUND COMPLEX

compound sentence ADD dependent clause

It is rainy today, but Maria will still go for a run because she has a race coming up. compound sentence complex-adverb clause

 

 

GOAL FOR THE NEXT THREE WEEKS – simple, compound, complex, compound complex sentences

 

Tomorrow, we will get into simple sentences a little deeper.

Quiz on Monday

EXAMPLE QUIZ

 

Quiz #1 Simple sentences

Write a simple sentence for each.

Submit it to me by 9:05.

1. SV           dog

Marie’s dog is cute.

Joe chased a dog away from his yard.

2. SVV         cat

The little girl played with and patted the cat.

3. Imperative      fish

Throw that fish away.

4. Interrogative  monkey

Is that a monkey driving the bus?

5. SSV         squirrel

The squirrel and the dog are best friends.

6. SVV         snake

Joan caught and patted the garden snake.

 

6/6

 

 

 

 

Continue with “Daylight Saving Time”

 

volume and tone- up and down like waves on the ocean

, commas- breath mark,  take a beat, rest, take a breath

; semicolone two beats

. period – longer pause, three beats

 

stress key words- stress- louder and bolder

 

? usually tone goes up

 

bug collector – etymologist -studies insects  Charles Darwin- evolution

 

Excellent speakers reading from a script- CBC radio presenters, news

 

 

New vocabulary? Difficult vocab?

What was a word that you first encountered in this article?

semiannual

myth

urban myth- popular story that people say, not true

superstitions – believe that certain actions will bring good luck or bad luck

observe

opposite

upset

offset
If you take a plane, you can plant a tree to offset the carbon usage.

 

participate

annual- one year

decade- 10 years

century -100 years

millenium- 1000 years

 

artificial – fake

appear- The full moon appeared above the trees. A ghost appeared in the old house.

convenience(n) convenient(adj)

 

Tomorrow, we will choose 10 words to focus on for the quiz.

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