Friday, 11 February 2022

EF34 5 class- simple sentences, simple verb tenses

 

EF34

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 11:00.

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Continue simple sentences- a bit more practice

Prepare for Quiz#1 on Monday

Choose vocab for Quiz#1 together

·      Small group chatting/discussion

·      Begin work on simple verb tenses

simple present, simple past, simple future

·      HW   Read “Viola Desmond”

 

 

Monday

·      Quiz#1 (25m)

·      Begin compound sentences

·      “Viola Desmond”

 

Early next week, we will write our first paragraph (Test#1).

 

 

SIMPLE SENTENCES

- one clause

-different types

S= subject   V= verb

 

SV

SSV

SVV

Imperative

Question (interrogative)

 

Example quiz:

 

Write a simple sentence for each.

1.    SV                park

2.    SSV              school

3.    SVV             house

4.    SSV              mountain

5.    Question   job

6.    Imperative bus

 

Let’s choose 10 words for the quiz. I will choose six of those.

1.    songwriter

2.    international

3.    war

4.    play

5.    write

6.    guitar

7.    award

8.    kids

9.    spirit

10.                       street

 

Small group discussion (4-5 people in a group)

casual talking, discussion, chatting *In English*

Topics for discussion (small groups)

1.    If you were rich, how would your life be different?

-travel, become a world-traveller, join the jet-set

-help poor people, support charities

-buy a nice big house, luxury car, nice clothes

-open a company, business, become a entrepreneur

-retire early, Freedom 55

normal retirement age is 65, equality for men and women

 

 

2.    If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

-change bad habits- very emotional, make a mountain out of a molehill

-more confidence, less self-doubt

-healthier

-taller

-thinner, lose weight

-stop worrying about the future, anxiety

-not be so thin-skinned, sensitive

-not to be so shy

-be more physically active, more exercise

-less distracted, able to focus more on one task, more attentive to what I’m doing

 

3.    If you could do one thing to change the world, what would it be?

-get rid of Covid, make Covid disappear,

-change the goverment in your home country

-stop war in my country and everywhere, world peace

-freedom in your country

-reduce pollution, clean up the environment,

-stop global warming

-feed the hungry

-all countries be friendly together

-remove some bad politicians

-end discrimination based on race, gender, colour, religion

-remove international borders, freedom of movement between countries

 

discrimination(n) discriminate(v)

The manager of the company discriminated against the ABC employees.

 

 

SIMPLE VERB TENSES

-simple present

-simple past

-simple future

 

confusion

simple sentence – simple verb tense

 

SIMPLE SENTENCE- SV SSV SVV Imperative Question

 

SIMPLE VERB TENSES -

-simple present- habitual action, usually, daily activity, state of being, fact

Mei drinks tea. everyday

I drink coffee. usually, ordinarily

Jenny takes a shower at night.

She brushes her teeth twice a day.

You make lunch for your kids.

You sometimes make lunch for yourself. occasionally

Shirin lives in Burnaby.

Two plus two equals four.

Mary comes from Nepal.

COMMON ERROR Mary come from Nepal. AGR- subject verb agreement

Mary comes from Nepal.

 

-simple past- one event in the past, finished, over

We watched a movie last night.

I baked some cookies last night.

I was at my friend’s house yesterday.

We went for a walk in the park last Sunday.

COMMON ERROR We was go for a walk in the park last Sunday. vf

 

I was a six-year-old child in 1973.

 

-simple future- one event that will happen in the future

‘will’

You will watch a movie at home with your children tonight.

You are going to hang out with (your) friends. You will go out for dinner. You will go out to eat.

I am going to work after class.

I will graduate from my school next year.

I will buy a new car next month.

 

What is the difference between ‘will’ and ‘be going to’?

 

SIMPLE PRESENT   SIMPLE PAST   SIMPLE FUTURE

 

 

Exercise 2

2. does not study/ doesn’t study

3. did not hit /didn’t wash   

4. don’t wash/ do not wash

 

didn’t – contraction  ‘ apostrophe    will not= won’t

5.didn’t win/ did not win

6.won’t finish/ will not finish

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