Good
morning, everyone.
We
will get started at 8:30
Al
Haley ahaley@vsb.bc.ca
Class
blog: haleyshec.blogspot.com
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Finish discussion of “The Wise Woman of Corboda”
Link to “International’s Women’s Day” -
vocab
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Return adj cl quiz
review, correct
no adj cl after pron
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Begin sentence combining
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Listening exercise
Monday
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Test3 – paragraph on “The Wise Woman of Cordoba”
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Sentence combining
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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
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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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