Wednesday, 26 January 2022

EF34 39 class- sentence combining, Back and Forth

 

EF34

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 11:00.

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Sentence combining- your examples from homework

·      Back and Forth

 

Thursday

·      Test#4- final paragraph on a general topic

·      Begin Review

 

Friday (Final Day)

·      Review

·      Final marks – one-on-one chat if you want, report card from the office next week

 

 

 

Some of your sentence combining solutions from homework:

 

1.    Jackie's dad who is a truck driver and has driven for twenty years is taking a year off; then he will be with Jackie.

semicolon ;

EF56-

 

; compound sentence

, SOBA

It is cloudy today, so it is not a good day to take pictures.

It is cloudy today; it is not a good day to take pictures.

, so = ;      , or = ;     , but=;     , and=;

 

Luis is from Mexico, but I am from Canada.

Luis is from Mexico; I am from Canada.

 

; transitional word,

It is cloudy today, so it is not a good day to take pictures.

It is cloudy today; it is not a good day to take pictures.

 

It is cloudy today; therefore, it is not a good day to take pictures.

 

Three levels for a cmpound sentence:

1.    It is cloudy today, so it is not a good day to take pictures.

2.    It is cloudy today; it is not a good day to take pictures.

3.    It is cloudy today; therefore, it is not a good day to take pictures.

 

1. Luis is from Mexico, but I am from Canada.

2. Luis is from Mexico; I am from Canada.

3. Luis is from Mexico; however, I am from Canada.

 

EF56 – transitional words   however   therefore   also   moreover   nevertheless   in other words   firstly   first of all    then    next    finally    to tell the truth

 

 

2.    He works at home, with Jackie and as a parent, and the parenting is a full-time job. 

He works at home with Jackie as a parent, which is a full-time job.

 

3.    They paint, picnic, go to movies, cycle and play in the afternoon.

4.    Jackie, who is four, enjoys each day which is spent with her dad.

5.    He now works with Jackie at home as a full-time parent.

6.    They have fun cleaning and repairing the house, cooking the meals and shopping.

7.    They play, paint, picnic , go to movies, and cycle in the afternoon.

 

AAA, BBB, CCC and DDD.

 

8.    Four years old Jackie enjoys her time with her father every day.

Four-year-old Jackie enjoys her time with her father every day.

 

9.    Jackie’s dad is has been a truck driver for twenty years, and he is taking a year off because he will be with Jackie.

has been – present perfect, started in the past, continues to now

 

10.                       He now works at home with Jackie as a parent because the parenting is a full time job.

11.                       They play in the afternoon, paint, picnic, go to movies, and cycle.

12.                       Jackie is four, and she enjoys each day when she which/that is spent with her dad. adj cl

 

13.                       Jackie’s dad who has been a truck driver for twenty years is taking a year off to be with Jackie.

14.                       He works as a parent full-time at home now with Jackie.

 

Challenging!

Good work. This will get better and easier with practice.

 

15.                       The dressing room was in a state as we prepared for the second performance of our play.

IDIOM in a state  very messy, very upset

 

16.                       Racks for costumes and trays for makeup were scattered in the room.

17.                       Nearly everyone was nervous while helpers were dressing cast members and applying their makeup.

18.                       The female lead could not get her wig to stay on properly, and the male lead was having a tug-of-war  with his suspenders because they would not cooperate.

lead – main actor

 

19.                       We were preparing for the second performance of our play, so the dressing was in a state.

We were preparing for the second performance of our play; the dressing was in a state.

We were preparing for the second performance of our play; therefore, the dressing was in a state.

 

20.                       Costume racks and makeup trays were scattered about the room.

21.                       The female lead could not get her wig to stay on properly, but the male lead was having a tug-of-war with a pair of suspenders that would not cooperate.

22.                       Jackie’s dad is a truck driver who has driven for twenty years, and he is taking a year off to be with Jackie.

23.                       They play then paint and go on a picnic and the movies after then cycle in the afternoon. RW

24.                       We are preparing for the performance which is the second of our play, but the dressing room is in a state. CONDENSE MORE

 

RW We were preparing for the second performance of our play, and/so the dressing room was in a state.

 

25.                       Racks that were for costumes and trays that were for makeup have been scattered about the room.

26.                       Nearly everyone was nervous when/while helpers were dressing cast members and applying their makeup.

27.                       The female lead could not get her wig to stay on properly and the male lead was having a tug-of-war with a pair of suspenders which would not cooperate.

 

The male lead was having a tug-of-war with an uncooperative pair of suspenders.

uncooperative (adj) – will not cooperate, will not work together

The little kid is being uncooperative about bedtime.

 

Jas is a very cooperative group-minded person.

 

We have been learning the foundations of English sentences.

SIMPLE   COMPOUND   COMPLEX

 

 

nervous (adj) – shy, anxious, scared, antsy, panicked (very strong), butterflies in your stomach

watch TV- entertainment, a passtime,

 

yellow- not brave, coward, sunflower, look jaundiced

blue- sad

 

Superman- like Batman, Spiderman, Wonder Woman, Cat Woman

superheroes,

Superman – red blue, big S on his chest, red cape

 

A find a B

B find an A

 

 

1.    stars  circles, ovals

side-by-side, parallel lines, opposite sides, top and bottom

 

2.    holding a pan pot, hot water, steaming, slim guy, slender, dump it out, pour it out, dump the pot out onto the floor

3.    diary- journal, standing on it end, standing up, back cover, front cover of the book, the spine of a book, our backbone is made of vertabrae, tailbone, funny bone

reflexes - knee

pins and needles – your leg is asleep

brain freeze-

hiccups-

 

4.    fractions – math

fracture – break

 

numerator

--------------

denominator

½ one half

1/3 one third

2/3 two thirds, two over three, two of three

¼ one quarter, one fourth

¾ three quarters, three fourths

¾ of a kilo- three quarters of a kilo

1/5 one fifth

2/5 two fifths

6/16 six sixteenths   sixteens  six out of sixteen

7/8 seven eighths

6/60 six sixtieths

 

¼ ½   ¾  

1/3 2/3

I have two thirds of a tank left.

I have only 1/8 of a tank left.

 

5.    He is throwing the stick for the dog. He is playing Fetch with the dog.

6.    gymnastics – doing a handstand, hanging by his hands, hanging by his feet, hanging upside down, doing the splits

 

 

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