EF34 20 class- noun clauses, Presentation #1

 

EF34

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 11:00.

 

                    

Today’s agenda:

·      Continue complex sentences- noun clauses

Practice

·      Presentation #1– class time to do the writing

 

 

Wednesday

·      Quiz#4- noun clauses

·      Presentation #1– class time to do the writing

 

 

Thursday

·      Presentations

 

 

Friday

·      Xmas story

·      Xmas movie

·      Bring some snacks if you like.

 

 

NOUN CLAUSES

A-list verbs: ‘think’ ‘know’ ‘understand’ ‘believe’ ‘realize’ ‘feel’ ‘say’

B-list pronouns: ‘that’ ‘why’ ‘how’

 

* think + that

Shari thinks that she will go skiing next week.

* understand why

I don’t understand why my daughter doesn’t clean up her disgusting filthy room.

 

* If you want to learn English, you have to believe that you can do it.

 

I think that the fire drill was successful.

drill- practice

 

Try some of your own:

A-list verbs: ‘think’ ‘know’ ‘understand’ ‘believe’ ‘realize’ ‘feel’ ‘say’

B-list pronouns: ‘that’ ‘why’ ‘how’

Join A+B to make a sentence with a noun clause.

A+B  know+why

 

My sister knows why I was late yesterday.

I can’t believe how quickly I am learning English.

I don’t know why you always give money to him.

I can’t believe that I forgot my doctor’s appointment.

Sometimes I think that I should go back to my home country.

I think that you can make a good life here.

We don’t understand why the business was not a success.

 

understand -

realize- understand all of a sudden, very quickly, snap of your fingers, lightbulb comes on

 

I realized suddenly that I left my stove on.

 

We don’t realize understand how Covid19 spreads.

 

I didn’t realize what a good friend you were until you moved away.

 

I realized how to finish my homework as soon as possible quickly. I found a shortcut.

 

I realized why my computer wasn’t working.

 

At 2am, I suddenly realized that I had forgotten to take the garbage out.

 

 

Verbs:

think

know

understand

believe

feel

say

 

Let’s choose 10 vocab words for our quiz tomorrow:

1.    flu(n)

2.    sore(a)

3.    sick(a)

4.    finger(n)

5.    comfortable(a)

6.    cold(n,a)

7.    backache(n)

8.    bleeding(v)

9.    fever(n)

10.                       appointment(n)

 

middle ear infection

infection(n) infect(v) infected(a)

pus – white and yellow liquid from an infected cut, dead white blood cells

 

blood- red blood cells- carry oxgen

-white blood cells- fight infection

-platelets- stop bleeding

          -plasma – liquid part of the blood

 

 

 

Presentation #1- A Person in My Life Who I Admire

HW- Choose the person.

WRITTEN

Paragraph 1 – biographical information

Paragraph 2- why you admire them

 

Let’s start writing some rough drafts.

 

We can finish these in class tomorrow.