Friday, 1 April 2022

EF56 30 class- adj cl, The Wise Woman of Cordoba

 

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 discussion of “The Wise Woman of Corboda”

Link to “International’s Women’s Day” - vocab

·      Return adj cl quiz

review, correct

no adj cl after pron

·      Begin sentence combining

·      Listening exercise

 

Monday

·      Test3 – paragraph on “The Wise Woman of Cordoba”

·      Sentence combining

·       

 

 

Butter, 6-year-old boy

loves people, will remember you forever

 

 

 

 

“The Wise Woman of Corboda”

vocab?

cell – jail cell, small room in a jail where a prisoners stays

bewildered(a)- totally confused

echo(v,n)- sound repeating, sound bouncing off a surface

leap, leaped, leapt(v,n)- jump

 

 

sentences?

“It is you who is far from being perfect.”

magic power, her ability to manipulate the judge

manu- hand

manual, manipulate, manicure

manipulate(v) – shape with your hand physically

manipulate psychological, with actions of words – trick, shape someone’s behaviour

pulls his strings- like a puppet

string him along- being manipulative

lure somebody in – lure (fishing)

 

characteristics of the judge (adjective)

not a lot of dialogue, infer (good guess, judgemnet based on not much evidence)

-important

-powerful

-arrogant

-disrespectful

-

 

THEME- my reading

The theme of the story is about how powerful man are afraid of powerful women and seek to diminish them.

 

PODCAST Seriously, BBC “The Witches’ Pardon”

coincidently came out today

 

Mexico was taken over by Spanish explorers – lots of Spanish city names in Mexico

-same as Canada, US: New ABC

 

Monday – question not plot, don’t retell the story

e.g. Describe one conflict in “The Wise Woman of Cordoba”.

choose one conflict-

person vs person- WW vs Judge

person vs  society -e.g never got married,

person vs nature

person vs  supernatural

person vs herself

 

 

pressure to married-

Christmas Cake-  Dec. 25

 

 

International Women’s Day

IDIOMS-

be on the same footing

 

 

 

Adj Cl Quiz

Quiz#5 Adjective Clauses

 

Write a sentence with an adjective clause for each.

Submit it to me by 9:05.

 

1.    contact      that

The job/business contact that you gave me was very helpful.

 

2.    poor            who

The poor man who is homeless talks to me everyday.

 

3.    attention   that

Pay attention to things that are important. Ignore things that are not important.

 

4.    reason        who

The Wise Woman who was a witch had good reasons to not trust the authorities.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

 

5.    appear        who

The person who appeared on the screen was Gong Li.

She is a person who appears to be very confident, but actually she is very shy.

 

6.    gold             which

I love the gold ring which my grandfather gave me years.

 

 

adjective clauses- after pronouns

 

You can’t put an adjective clause after a pronoun.

Marie who is my good friend lives in Burnaby.

She who is my good friend lives in Burnaby. XXX

You who are my friend live in Vancouver. XXX

 

I like to hang out with him who is a good dog. XXX

I like to hang out with Butter who is a good dog.

 

Use a name, not ‘she’ or ‘he’ or any pronoun.

‘You’

 

That was a good first and second level overview of adjective clauses.

We can go to deeper levels if you want.

 

 

She is the office girl woman Friday. sexist

I am the man Friday in my home.

gender-based discrimination, discriminatory

 

glass ceiling- Maria feels that there is a glass ceiling in her company.All of the highest level managers are men. They will not promote any women to high-level jobs.

 

She makes a good living in sales.

How do you make your living?

I am an Uber driver. It’s a living. – not great, just OK

It’s a good living. – making good money

It’s a great living. – rich

 

Juan tried to make a go of being an artist, but he couldn’t make a living at it.

Juan tried to make a living at being an artist, but he couldn’t make a go of it.

make of go of something- try to make it your source of income

I am trying to make a go with my restaurant. It is a 24/7 job.

 

breadwinner- earner

Joe is the main breadwinner in his family. His income is the main income for the family.

 

affirmative action – hiring minority and historically-oppressed groups first, visible minority

 

Carlos got his foot in the door at Starbucks as a barista. He worked his way up to manager.

 

climb the corporate ladder- step by step get into higher level jobs –

move from employee to regional manager

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