EF56 20class- paragraph review, Literary Terms

 English Foundations 5/6

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30

 

 

Today’s agenda

 

·      Review Test #2 paragraph

·      Noun clauses- Examples from KME

“NounclausesexamplesKME”

·      Begin “The Hockey Sweater”

“Literary Terms”

Choose vocab for tomorrow’s quiz

 

 

 

Wednesday

·      Quiz#4 – noun clauses

·      Continue with “The Hockey Sweater”

 

 

Thursday

·      Review Quiz#4 – noun clauses

 

 

Friday

·      Test#3 – paragraph about “The Hockey Sweater”

·      Xmas stuff

Bring snacks?

Have fun

 

 

 

Paragraph –

STRUCTURE

- ~150 words

-doublespace triplespace

-indent first word

-one good paragraph  four paragraphs, essay

 

PARTS OF A GOOD PARAGRAPH

Grabber

Clear topic sentence

3-4 supporting points

Concluding sentence

 

QUALITY OF THE SENTENCES

- simple, compound, complex

-punctuation

- verb form

 

Correction and rewriting – focus on rewriting your sentences into good simple, compound, and complex sentences.

Let’s do some work. Let’s struggle a bit. It’s the only way to get better.

 

 

English is a good language to connect people from all over the world.

English is a language for connecting people from around the world.

English is a language that connects people from around the world.

The English language provides a connection for people from different countries.

 

English is becoming the main language of business in many countries.

English has become the main language of business in many countries.

 

Good idea.

Challenge – expressing those ideas in authentic English.

authentic – real, true, natural-sounding

Your English is already good enough to have a good life in Canada.

We want to push to get our writing (phrasing, grammar) to a higher level for school.

 

 

 

“Literary Terms”

work of fiction - short story, novel, movie

 

characterize

mischaracterize somebody-

 

machine- anthropomorphized

anthropo – human being

morph- change

 

*protagonist –

‘pro’ - positive

progress, pro-democracy, promotion,

*antagonist-

‘anti’- against

antivaxxer, antibiotic, antisocial

 

She is her own worst enemy. You self-sabotage. He is self-defeating.

 

conflict – internal conflict “person vs themself”

 

stock characters in movie- background actors, extras

 

dynamic – changing

static – doesn’t move, change

 

PLOT

*exposition – show

establish setting

establish major characters

*rising action

 

 

 

Noun clauses-     verbs: think, know, understand, say

                               pronouns: that, why, how

10 vocab words for the quiz:

1.    punish(v)

2.    winter(n)

3.    uniform(n,a)

4.    famous(a)

5.    battle(n,v)

6.    hockey(n)

7.    childhood(n)

8.    season(n)

9.    sweater(n)

10.                       unfair(a)

 

Example

1.    think           season

Sarah thinks that summer is her favourite