Wednesday, 30 March 2022

EF56 28class- another, the other/ adjective clauses

 

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

·      other/another/the other

·      Continue with adjective clauses

·      Continue with “The Wise Woman of Cordoba”

·      “Literary Terms”

·      Choose vocab for quiz

 

Thursday

·      Quiz#5 – adjective clauses

·      Continue “The Wise Woman of Cordoba”

 

Friday

·      Begin sentence combining

·      Test3 “WWoC”

 

 

 

 

other/another/the other

 

I want a big sandwich. big(adj)

I want a tuna sandwich. tuna(noun)

nouns function as modifiers, act like adjectives

She bought a red book. red(adj)

She bought a school book. school(noun- functioning like an adjective)

 

several nouns together active like a big modifier, adjective

She bought a 100 pages book.  No ‘s”. Use a hyphen.

She bought a 100-page book.

 

She is a ten years old girl. XXX common error

She is a ten-year-old girl. Modifier of ‘girl’

She is ten years old. NOT A MODIFIER

 

Mei lives in a tall building. It is 30 stories high.

Mei lives in a 30-story building.

 

The tower is 100 feet tall.

It is a 100 feet tower. XXX

It is a 100-foot tower.

 

This class is nine weeks long.

This is a nine weeks class. XXX

This is a nine-week class.

 

another/other/the other – adjectives

I want another sandwich. adj

 

Can I have another cup of coffee? general

another – one more   an  other

 

 

the other – specific one

Bring your other shoes.

 

 

 

pronoun-

I would like another cup of coffee. adj

I would like another. pron

 

Do you have another one? adj

 

Where are the other members of our group? adj

Where are the others? pron

Where are they? pron

 

3. It’s good to get advice from others before you make big important decisions. pron

It’s good to get advice from other people before you make big important decisions. adj

 

4. Do you have any other guitars/gear for sale?

gear/equipment – uncountable (singular)

pieces of gear / pieces of equipment – (plural)

tools- building

 

5. I will ask the others. I will ask the other people.

AUTHENTIC I will ask somebody/someone else.

 

6. I need to buy another phone.

 

7. Joe walked along from one end of Richmond to the other last night.

IDIOM He cleaned the house from one end to the other.

 

9. Can I ask another question. adj

Can I ask another. pron

 

11. I don’t like this jacket. However, I liked some of the others that we saw.

 

Quiz5 – adjective clauses

who   that   which

 

Choose to words of vocab from “The Wise Woman of Cordoba”

1.    remember (v)

2.    contact (v,n)

3.    poor (adj)

4.    attention (n)

5.    reason (n,v)

6.    judge (n,v)

7.    appear (v)

8.    power (n)

9.    magic (n)

10.                       gold (n)

 

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