Good morning.
We will get started at 8:30.
Today’s Agenda:
·
Begin sentence review
· “English 10 Expectations for Sentence
Writing”
· Simple sentences exercises from homework
· “Burn Out” Read and vocab.
Wednesday
· Continue simple sentences
· Begin compound sentences
· Begin paragraph work
Thursday
· Continue compound
· Teach quiz format
· Quiz next class- vocab from “Burn Out”
Friday
· Quiz#1 - simple and compound sentences
· Continue paragraph work
·
Overview
of sentence types
These
are the sentence types that I will be teaching you-
November
to January- Advanced Writing Tutorial
Tuesday
nights – 4:30-5:30 pm
Zoom,
online
You
are welcome to join next year.
I
will publish the link in early November on my blog.
Some
of this you will already know. A lot of it will be new.
I
will go deep into the sentence types.
Four
sentence types:
SIMPLE
COMPOUND
COMPLEX
COMPOUND
COMPLEX - mix of COMPOUND and COMPLEX
These
are the foundations for all of your writing. When I write I use these sentence
types.
-good
for school, college, work, life
SIMPLE
SENTENCE– one main clause = subject + verb
clause
– collection of words that has a subject and verb
main
clause= independent clause= simple sentence
SV
Subject Verb- easiest kind of sentence
The
dog is sleeping. SV
My
car is red.
SSV
The
dog and the cat are sleeping. SSV
Doctors
and nurses are struggling with Covid19. SSV
North
Vancouver and Chiba, Japan are sister cities. SSV
SVV
The
kids are running and are yelling. SVV
Mariko
is working parttime and studying at Langara. SVV
Mariko
is working parttime days in Metrotown at a jewelery store and studying
third-year biology at Langara in the evenings. SVV
(in
Metrotown) (at a jewelery store) – prepositonal phrases
(at
Langara) (in the evenings)- prepositional phrases
SSVV
You
and I drink coffee and talk / chew the fat/catch up. SSVV
IDIOM
chew the fat- talk casually, gossip
My
son and I like to walk around the park and chew the fat. SSVV
SIMPLE
SENTENCES - no commas SV SSV SVV
SSVV
My
son and I like to walk around the park, and chew the fat. XXX
My
son, and I like to walk around the park, and chew the fat. XXX
My
son and I like to walk around the park and chew the fat.
We
walk and talk. No commas SVV SIMPLE SENTENCE
We
walk, and talk. XXX
We
walk, and we talk. COMPOUND
We
walk, talk, and laugh. SIMPLE SVVV
WORDS
IN A SERIES , comma
She
likes cats, dogs, and fish.
cats,
dogs, and fish nouns in a series
She
plays soccer, runs, and lifts weights.
plays
soccer, runs, and lifts – verbs in a series
*
DETAIL- Oxford comma
She
likes dogs, cats, and fish. Oxford comma, old-fashioned looking
She
likes dogs, cats and fish. modern looking, simpler
Your
choice!
She
plays soccer, runs, and lifts weights. Oxford comma
She
plays soccer, runs and lifts weights.
Next
time you read a book or an article, pay attention to how the writer uses
commas.
We
can understand the writing at a deeper level.
Reading
with intention.
Imperative
– command - tell someone to do something
Close
the door!
Stop
making so much noise!
Shut
up!
Come
in. Sit down. Watch out.
You
sit down. XXX sounds very aggressive
You
Sit down.
POLITENESS
Sit
down, please.
Please
sit down.
Have
a seat, please.
Please
have a seat.
SLANG-
CASUAL Take a load off.
NOTE-
MY ADVICE
Exclamation
points are often overused, especially in casual writing.
They
have almost no place in school writing, academic writing.
personal
writing, narrative writing – ok to use sparingly, very infrequently, rarely
Sit
down! exclamation mark ! - shows energy, makes it sound loud
!!
– overused
MY
ADVICE- avoid them in school writing
Great.
Great!
Great
!!! XXX Ok for casual writing, not for serious school writing or business
writing
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Incredible!
Be
cautious of using ! to show emphasis.
Interrogative(a)
– question, interrogate(v)
Is
it going to rain today?
How
are you?
What
time is it?
Is
that your phone?
REVIEW:
SIMPLE-
SV SSV
SVV SSVV Imperative
Interrogative
Sentence
work from homework
Small
groups, share information
These
are example of simple sentences. These are good models for us to follow.
Practice 1
Do you know
how to speak German?
2. SVV holiday celebrates and lasts
Black, African-American, African-Canadian, Afro-Canadian
The African-American holiday celebrates
Black heritage.
two kinds of subjects 1. simple subject/ main subject – one word
2.
complete subject – subject plus articles and
modifers
The African-American holiday celebrates
Black heritage. main subject
The African-American holiday celebrates Black heritage. complete subject
FREE ADVICE You should always know what you
main subject is.
If you know what you main subject is, you
are less likely to make a mistake with the verb.
e.g. The cat with the white paws is/are cute.
My hometown which is a hub of industrial
and tech companies has/have a growing
population.
#1 error that students make is subject verb
agreement.
SVAGR
AGR
Swahili- common African language, lingua franca
4. In English, spelling is very complicated. prepositional phrase
9. SVV celebrants light discuss
celebrant – a person who celebrates
celebrity- a famous person who everyone
knows and mostly likes
ABCant – person
immigrant – a person who immigrates
tenant – a renter
occupant- someone who lives at an address,
you occupy(v) the place
applicant – a person who applies for a job
or a school
attendant- a person who attends (helps), flight
attendant
assistant- a person who assists (helps)
ant -suffix- short word ending
10. SV principles are
Practice 2
8. In one corner of the lab, beakers
of coloured liquid bubbled and boiled. 3 prep phrases
** When
you’re writing sentence, you can have this in the back of
your mind. If we know what we’ve written,
we can mix it up.
Practice 3
4. However, wearing a uniform every
day did not appeal to her.
VERB+ing = looks like a verb, but it is a noun,
gerund
sing(v) singing(n, gerund)
Singing helps me to
relax.
I like singing(n,
gerund) with you.
Learning English is challenging.
Living in Vancouver has been wonderful.
I am tired of living in Vancouver. I want
to move to a smaller place.
Spending Saturdays in the park with my young son makes me happy.
10. cameras and tape recorders
have gotten
Thanks to my sister, I have a place to stay
in Halifax.
We can go over a few more tomorrow if you
like.
Practice 4
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