Wednesday, 2 March 2022

EF56 17 class- present perfect, present perfect progressive verb tense, "" quotation marks

 

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

·      Finish the present perfect verb tense exercises from yesterday

·      Begin learning how to quote text “”

·      HW   Finish reading “Roses Sing on New Snow”.

Make notes for class discussion tomorrow.

 

Thursday

·      Review Quiz#3- adverb clauses

·      begin noun clauses

·      Start in on “Roses Sing on New Snow”

 

Friday

·      Continue with noun clauses

·      Continue with “Roses Sing on New Snow”

·      LAST 30 minutes-         midterm check-in- how things are going for

you in the class, written, anonymous

 

 

I have a ten-year plan for music. I have eight years left in my plan.

I have been going hard on music for two years.

MY ADVICE: If you want to play guitar, buy a good used guitar. Leave it out. Don’t keep it in the guitar case.

guitar pick or fingers

 

Are you an arrow or a balloon?

 

Verb tense- present perfect and present perfect progressive

 

Exercise 2:

1.    She has studied French for seven years. present perfect

She has been studying French for seven years. present perfect progressive- suggests it will continue in the future

2.    The old woman has been living in the apartment since 1976.

3.    I have never been to this neihgborhood before. KEY WORD ‘before’

4.    Our teacher has been giving us a lot of homework lately.

5.    My brother has been watching TV for thee past two hours.

6.    We have made an appointment to meet with the CEO.

We made an appointment to meet with the CEO.

CEO- chief executive officer, the boss

CFO – chief financial officer

President, Vice-President, Senior Vice-President, Junior Vice-President

7.    Our waiter has only come by our table once.

8.    Have you already seen this movie?

Did you see this movie yet? SIMPLER, Good

Have you already seen this movie yet?

Did you see this movie already?

Did you see this movie before?

          Have you seen this movie before?

          Have you gone snowboarding before?

          Have you tried Korean food before?

Have you been to New York before?

9.    They have been trying to fix the problem.

I have been trying to get better at verb tenses?

I have been trying to get in better shape.

She has been trying to get a promotion.

He has been trying to eat more healthily.

healthy(adj)   health(n)   healthily(adv)

10.                       My mother has not spoken to me about my behavior yet.

I have not spoken to my teacher about the test yet.

She has not spoken to her doctor about her neck pain yet.

He has not taken his car in for an oil change yet.

has not = hasn’t (a bit more casual)

have not = haven’t

 

I have no idea. I don’t know. I haven’t any idea.

IDIOM- I don’t have a clue.

 

PR – public relations, publicity for actors, brands

 

 

“Roses Sing on New Snow”

setting – time and place

- infer, make a good guess based on information, watch for clues, information

 

 

 

 

Quotation marks  “ “

·      Uses of quotation marks      1.titles

2.reported speech

3.irony, ironic finger quotes (for talking, casual)

4.borrow words from a text

 

1.    titles – short story, not a book, part of a book

“Roses Sing on New Snow”

novel, book by itself, has its own covers

Choice: Impact  OR Impact  (Ctrl i)

fgfgfgfgfgf fhfhfhfhfhf fnfhdhf

 

<<Impact>>  Not English

Short story “The Old Man”

 

 

“Animal Farm”   XXX, not both, just one or the other

e.g. The class really enjoyed reading Animal Farm. The class really enjoyed reading “Roses Sing on New Snow”.

Luis is reading a book called Two Pieces of Clothes. computer

Luis is reading a book called Two Pieces of Clothes. handwriting

 

Jun read an article in The Vancouver Sun called “What does Putin Want?”.

Jun read an article in The Vancouver Sun called “The Future for Ukraine”.

 

Good Food has an article called “Old-Fashioned Apple Pie”.

Good Food has an article called “Old-Fashioned Apple Pie”.

bold- not necessary, used for visual effects

bald

 

 

 

 

2.    reported speech, direct speech, exact words

Mary said, “I am going to be late today.”

Mary said, “I am going to be late today.” I said that would be fine.

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/quotation_marks/index.html

CONFUSION

Mary said that she is going to be late today. indirect speech, noun clause

COMMON ERROR

ERROR   Mary said that I am going to be late today. MIXED UP

ERROR My mother said that you should do your homework. Who is ‘you’?

FIXED My mother said, “I should do my homework.”

FIXED My mother said that I should do my homework.

My daughter said, “Let’s go to the pet store.” DIRECT SPEECH

My daughter said that we should go to the pet store. INDIRECT SPEECH

that we should go to the pet store - noun clause

 

3.    irony, finger quotes- informal, speaking

irony – 1. verbal irony – say something but mean the opposite,

not hurtful, gentle humour

SPOKEN Joan went to a party last night. She missed work today because she is “sick”.

2. dramatic irony – you know something that the character

in the book or movie doesn’t know

3. situational irony- you try to do something to help someone but you wind up hurting them, you get the opposite result from what you intended

 

IDIOM  wind up – what happens in the end

“Dora wanted to move to Chicago, but she wound up going to Toronto.”

“Sue is studying business in college. She will probably wind up being a manager in a company.”

 

 

proposterous (adj) – ridiculous, outrageous

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