Thursday, 9 June 2022

E10 11 - 30 class- Flying, more examples of noun clauses

 

Good morning.

We will get started at 8:30.

 

Today’s Agenda:

·      Quoting – What should we quote?

·      Continue noun clauses

·      Begin Flying and Freedom module

“Jonathan Livingston Seagull”

 

 

Friday

·      Quiz#4- noun clauses

·      Continue “Flying and Freedom”

 

Monday

·      Causal verbs

·      Test#4 pass-in writing about JLS- You can choose your approach. Stay on topic.

 

Tuesday

 

 

 

 

Tomorrow Quiz#4 – final quiz about sentences

Optional replacement quiz soon. Replace one of the quiz marks if you want.

 

Final two and a half weeks – paragraph tests, essay or two, replacement test at the end, other spoken mark

 

 

Quoting – What should we quote?

 

-         use best judgement

-         quote special words or phrases

-         Question I ask myself: What am I using this word?

Is this a word I would use anyway? OR Am I borrowing it from

the story?

e.g. seagull-

fly- ordinary word, our active vocabulary

“bone and feathers”(2)

feathers

“his feathers ruffled”(1)

You have to be reasonable, make a judgement call.

 

When we write about this on Monday, I would like you to drop a few quotations into your paragraph.

REMINDER: Quote only a few (2,3,4) words. Incorporate the quoted words into your sentences.

 

Paragraph – 150-200 words. 95% your words.

Postsecondary paper- 10-15pp- You can quote longer passages.

Raw

 

“bone and feathers”(2)

Jonathan’s mother was worried about him because he was spending so much time practicing his flying that he was neglecting to eat. She saw that he was just “bone and feathers”(Bach 2) and was concerned about his health.

 

Kyle Kirkwood – MLA Citation style

 

She saw that he was just “bone and feathers”(2).

 

 

REPORTED SPEECH Joan said, “I want to go for a walk.”

 

Detailed and precise.

 

 

Noun clauses-

A pool of verbs: say think feel remember realize believe forget understand

B pool of pronouns: that why how

Choose 10 words of vocabulary from “JLS”:

 

 

Small discussion groups (4-5 people)

Discuss and share knowledge about the discussion questions.

 

 

 

MORE EXAMPLES OF NOUN CLAUSES

 

 

* forget why

Sharin forgot why she came into the kitchen.

I forget why I called you.

 

 

REMINDER:

A.      think, feel, believe, know, understand, forget, remember, realize, etc.

B.       that, what, why, how

 

Knowing which A goes with which B is the tricky part. That will take a lot of listening to English speakers, reading, etc.

 

* believe how

I couldn’t believe how hard it was to immigrate to Canada.

I don’t believe how much I miss my dog.

IDIOM don’t believe – am very surprised

May doesn’t believe how much it rains in Vancouver.

I can’t believe how expensive a purebred puppy is.

shed(v)- a dog loses hair

Her dogs sheds a lot.

non-shedding

hypo-allergenic – will not bother people with allergies

 

* understand + why

I understand why you want to stay in English Foundation 5.

Jun’s mother understood why she wanted to marry Taka.

I don’t understand why my brother won’t forgive me.

Mary didn’t understand why her son could not make it to school on time.

 

* understand how

I understand how hard it is to learn a new language.

I understand how challenging it is to ...

I don’t understand how you could say that to me.

I don’t understand how to do this math problem.

I don’t understand how to make you happy.

Mohamed didn’t understand how the teaching method could be so different in Canada than it was back in his home country.

 

* understand why

I don’t understand why my tomatoes are not growing.

The little boy could not understand why he was not allowed to stay up late.

I don’t understand why people came up with segregation laws/rules.

Joan understands why she did not pass.

 

 

You probably know a lot of these already. To get comfortable with these, you really need to use them in your daily life. It’s really important for you to engage with authentic English daily.

 

 

COMPLEX SENTENCE – two clauses

Michelle said that she would come early today.

Michelle said – main clause, independent clause

that she would come early today – subordinate clause, dependent clause, noun clause

 

I think that you are a very kind person. complex sentence

 

 

 

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