EF34 36 class- too much / much too, sentence fragments, Presentation #1

 

EF34

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 11:00.

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Return Test#4

Make corrections

·      much too adjective / too much noun

·      Work on Presentation #1

Get some ideas together.

Plan your paragraphs. Start to write your paragraphs.

Plan your presentation. Make notes for your presentation.

The presentation day is Thursday.

·      Your homework- one on one meetings, if you want

·      “Complete Sentences” worksheet

Try a bunch for homework. Email some to me.

 

·      “Ramadan” listening Cloze

·      HW   Read “Ramadan”

 

Tuesday

·      “Ramadan”

·      Begin sentence combining

·      Continue Presentation #1

·      Say/Tell

·      Replacement quiz (last 25m of class)

 

Wednesday

·      Sentence combining

·      Finish Presentation #1

 

Thursday

·      Quiz#6 sentence combining

·      Presentation Day: Presentation #1

 

 

Friday and Monday are holidays- Good Friday and Easter Monday

 

Tuesday

·      First Nations module

 

Wednesday

·       First Nations module

 

Thursday

·      Final test -paragraph

 

Friday (final day)

·      Review

·      Marks day

·      Final reports

 

 

 

 

* Question from Friday

much too VS too much

much too ADJ

too much NOUN

 

The soup is much too hot.  hot adj

The chicken is much too spicy for me. spicy adj

Houses are much too expensive in Vancouver for me to afford.

You are driving much too fast. adj

much too ADVERB

You are driving much too quickly. adv

The shy student is talking much too quietly for anyone to hear.

Ling has been working much too hard lately. adv

 

Jun has been playing computer too much in the past few weeks.

Maria has been eating too many snacks lately.

Dora has been talking on the phone too much with her girlfriend.

 

This soup has too much salt. salt noun

The chicken has too much pepper. It has too much spice for me.

 

too much SINGULAR NOUN, UNCOUNTABLE NOUN

too many PLURAL NOUN, COUNTABLE NOUN ‘s’

 

There are too many people on this bus.

This soup has too many pieces of chicken.

 

too much   too many   much too – negative, some problem

 

Sarah is much too happy when she is with her family. XXX

Sarah is very/extremely happy when she is with her family.

Sarah is so happy when she is with her family. casual, talking

 

Thank you very much. Thank you so much. casual, talking, friendly

Thanks very much.

 

 

 

Complete Sentences

Exercise 1

1.    Nestor shaved his beard  C  Nestor shaved his beard.

2.    When I see her   Frag- sentence fragment

When I see her, I will ask her about her mother.

I get nervous when I see her.

 

Try a bunch of those. There is no need to do all 40 of them. Maybe choose 10 or so. You can do more if you like.