Monday, 28 February 2022

EF56 15 class- adverb clauses, prep for quiz#3

 

English Foundations 5/6

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30

 

Al Haley ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

Class blog: haleyshec.blogspot.com

 

Today’s agenda

·      Continue with complex sentences- adverb clauses

Choose vocab for the quiz to tomorrow

 

Tuesday

·      Quiz#3- complex sentences- adverb clauses

·      Begin learning how to quote text “”

·      present perfect verb tense exercises

·      begin noun clauses

·      HW   New text to read

 

Wednesday

·      Continue with quoting work

·      Continue wirth noun clauses

 

 

Some of your examples from homework.

 

1.    He likes his wife; in addition, he likes his daughter. COMPOUND

He likes his wife, in addition, he likes his daughter XXX

2.    John likes to help people ; like wise his wife likes t volunteer in the community centre.

John likes to help people; likewise, his wife likes to volunteer in the community centre.

Check it over. Take a look.

 

3.    My daughter is playing piano while I am sleeping. adverb clause vf

 

4.    Mary has been waiting her boyfriend to get marry since last year. SIMPLE

Mary has been waiting for her boyfriend to get married since last year. Meaning unclear

Mary has been waiting to marry her boyfriend since last year.

 

5.    He always told people he graduated from UBC. Actually, he was a college student.

Easy fix: Getting the spacing right for commas and periods and semicolons.

 

6.    Recently, the economy has not been strong ; therefore, most of the restaurant business has been slow.

 

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has been – present perfect

present perfect – started in the past, continues up to now

perfect – doesn’t mean ‘Perfect!’, just a word

 

VERY COMMON USAGE of present perfect

Mei has lived in Vancouver since 1998.

time indicator –‘since 1998’

Janet has studied piano since she was a child.

time indicator - since she was a child adverb clause

Janet has studied piano since she was a child.  complex sentence- adv cl

 

Janet has studied piano since SV 2006. simple sentence

Janet has studied piano for two years. simple sentence

 

time indicator – since she was a child – adverb clause COMPLEX

                               -since 2006 – prepostional phrase SIMPLE

                               -for two years – prepostional phrase SIMPLE

 

Janet had studied piano for two years. past perfect- English speakers rarely use this. We substitute simple past.

Janet studied piano for two years. More authentic sounding.

Janet had studied piano since she was a child.  past perfect

Janet studied piano when she was a child.

 

verb forms

present                           past                       participle

eat                                   ate                         eaten

see                                   saw                        seen

fly                                     flew                       flown

run                                   ran                         run

throw                              threw                    thrown

fall                                    fell                         fallen

lie (tell a lie)                   lied                        lied                                  

lie (recline on your own)      lay               lain   

lay (place down gently) laid                     laid   

 

https://www.gallaudet.edu/tutorial-and-instructional-programs/english-center/grammar-and-vocabulary/verbs/irregular-verb-list/

 

REVIEW      -present perfect – very useful

                     -past perfect- substitute simple past with a time indicator

 

present perfect “Carlos has taught jiujitsu to kids for the past five years in Vancouver.”

past perfect “Carlos had taught jiujitsu to kids for ten years when he lived in Columbia.” *Most English will substitute simple past for past perfect with a time indicator.

 

7.    Because of the pandemic , people were stay home to protest himself.

Because of the pandemic , people were staying/stayed home to protect themselves.

 

8.    He did not pay attention to his job; consequently, his boss fired him.

9.    He was not paying attention to his job; consequently, his boss fired him.

consequently – sequence(n)- order of time

therefore

as a result

for that reason/ for this reason

 

easy to overuse ‘therefore’ and ‘however’

 

10.                       Joe will not go to see his parent even if he has free time.

parents – two

parent- mother/ father

 

11.                       Mary never help her poor relative even though she has lots of money.

lots of money

a lot of money

alot a lot

 

12.                       I wake up at 5am unless I don’t have school.

 

SAME MEANING- DIFFERENT WAYS OF EXPRESSING IT

13.                       Unless my friend drives me to work, I will be late.

14.                       If my friend drives me to work, I won’t be late.

 

15.                       My friend drove me to work although since/because I was late.

16.                       Even though my friend drove me to work, I was late.

17.                       The cloud is getting heavy as if it will snow.

18.                       My friend drove me to work in order for me not to be late.

 

 

Good work!

 

when/while

When we stand up to bullies, they will back down.

recoil

retreat

back down – stop being aggressive or argumentative, admit defeat

 

Johnnie is playing soccer while his father is talking with the other parents.

 

so...that

Mary is a computer expert. She is so knowledgable that many companies want to hire her. so ADJECTIVE that

The situation in Ukraine is so worrisome that Kasha is having trouble sleeping.

so that   Mary is a knowledgable computer expert so that many companies want to hire her.

I let the dog out so that he can pee in the backyard.

 

Quiz#3 tomorrow

Choose 10 adverb words

1.    because

2.    if

3.    when

4.    although

5.    while

6.    since

7.    before

8.    until

9.    unless

10.                       so ... that   so ADJ that

 

Choose 10 vocabulary from “The Rosa Parks Story” and “Bullying”

1.    bully (n) (v)

2.    repeat

3.    anxious(a)

4.    demonstration(n)

5.    prevent(v)

6.    gossip(n)(v)

7.    aware(adj)

She is aware of your concerns.

8.    pink(a)

9.    target(n)(v)

10.                       stand up (v-phrasal verb)

 

 

 

 

stand up

stand out- better than the others

She stands out from the other dancers.

He gave a stand-out performance in the movie.

Mei is a stand-out math student.

She really stands out in the class.

 

sticks out – different than the others (not in a good way)

The tall grade one boy sticks from the other kids.

IDIOM He sticks out like a sore thumb. – noticably different

When I would visit small villages in northern Japan, I would stick out like a sore thumb.

 

 

Time to practice for the quiz.

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