Tuesday, 4 October 2022

EF56- Class 19 - adjective clauses, Rosa Parks

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 9:15.

 

Today’s agenda:

·      Continue adjective clauses

·      Continue work on writing process: prewriting / writing

·      Continue Women and Rights module- Viola Desmond, Rosa Parks

·      HW   Complete Adjective clauses Ex. 3 and 5. No need to email

them. We will go over them tomorrow.

Choose either Viola Desmond or Rosa Parks. Consider her situation. I will ask you to write a paragraph based on your own opinion.

 

Wednesday

·      Test#2- Paragraph on Women and Rights module, just about Rosa Parks or Viola Desmond

·      Continue Women and Rights module- Malala Yousafzai

·      Review of adj cl homework

Email some for homework

Quiz Friday

 

Thursday

Substitute teacher- I will be at a conference.

·      Begin short story, fiction – “

·      Literary Terms

 

Friday

·      Quiz#6 – adjective clauses

·      Continue with short story, fiction

·      Literary Terms

 

 

 

 

Sentence types:

You must become familiar with and be able to use when writing and talking. These are aimed on more academic, professional level of English. This is for more formal, structured communication.

SIMPLE                 SV   SSV   SVV   SSVV   Question   Command

COMPOUND       SV, SOBA SV.   SV; SV.   SV; TRANS, SV.

COMPLEX             ADVERB CLAUSES

                               ADJECTIVE CLAUSES

                               NOUN CLAUSES

 

Adjective clauses

*Basic level of knowledge

95% of the time

who- people

that- things, animals, people (impolite, not respectful sounding)

which- special things, unique things

 

Far less common, quite uncommon

whom

MY ADVICE – forget about ‘whom’

EXCEPTION “To whom it may concern,”

 

*Deeper level – not critical

commas or no commas around adjective clauses

-Use commas around an adjective clause – special, unique, only one- a good time to use commas

 

‘which’ is a good candidate for commas

Manila, which is the capital of The Philippines, is a huge city.

 

Grammar-  non-essential, non-restrictive

 

SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT MEANINGS / MESSAGES

A.   Dave’s dog, that has white fur, loves to swim.

B.    Dave’s dog that has white fur loves to swim.

 

A.   How many dogs does Dave have? One or more than one

B.    How many dogs does Dave have? One or more than one

 

A.   Dave’s dog, that has white fur, loves to swim. Suggests that Dave has one dog. non-restrictive clause, non-essential clause (grammar books) – extra information, not essential

, that has white fur,   commas around it, means it can be omitted

 

 Dave’s dog , that has white fur, loves to swim.

Dave’s dog , that has white fur, loves to swim.

Dave’s dog loves to swim.

 

The meaning doesn’t change.

 

 

B.    Dave’s dog that has white fur loves to swim. Suggests that Dave has more than one dog.

restrictive clause, essential clause (grammar books) – not extra information, essential, cannot be omitted

that has white fur   no commas around it, means it cannot be omitted

Dave’s dog that has white fur loves to swim.

 

* important punctuation, detailed and subtle, not a major problem if you get it wrong

 

A.   My car that I bought at Richmond Auto Mall is a 2018 Toyota.

B.    My car, that I bought at Richmond Auto Mall, is a 2018 Toyota.

 

Complete subject

A.   How many cars do I own?

B.    How many cars do I own?

 

A.   Micheal’s son who is 10 loves to play football.

B.    Micheal’s son, who is 10, loves to play football.

 

Our class, which goes Monday to Friday, is useful but challenging.

Commas or no commas?

 

How to distinguish the difference- written- straightforward

                                                              -spoken – subtle

 

commas – spoken- breath marks – take a breath, small beat, pause

A.   Our class, which goes Monday to Friday, is useful but challenging.

B.    Our class which goes Monday to Friday is useful but challenging.

 

Rhythm in speech is very important.

Often students complain that their pronunciation is poor. Sometimes, the problem is speaking rhythm more than pronuncaition.

 

 

Adjective Clauses, Ex13 from homework

‘whose’ ownership

The little boy whose puppy ran away was very sad. The puppy came back.

 

You can lease a car. You can sign a lease.

These are the shoes that I like the most.

 

IDIOM the writing on the wall   Mei could see the writing on the wall. She could guess/predict what was about to happen.

 

SCENARIO: Mei’s sister and her husband are arguing all the time. Thye have separate bedrooms. They don’t even look at each other anymore.

Mei can see the writing on the wall.

What is going to happen probably? Divorce

 

OLD JOKE student to a teacher “My dog ate my homework.”

 

aftershave – slap on your face after shaving

cologne – perfume for men

 

scent-free areas – Please, do not wear perfume.

 

Joachim – Spanish  ‘j’ pron like ‘h’

Jose –

Juanita-

 

loaned = lent

 

 

fascinate(v) fascinating(adj)= amazing

 

 

GRAMMAR: difference between main subject and complete subject

main subject – just one noun, subject of the sentence

complete subject  - main noun plus all the modifiers, subject of the sentence

 

A.   My car that I bought at Richmond Auto Mall is a 2018.

B.    My car, that I bought at Richmond Auto Mall, is a 2018.

 

complete subject

My car that I bought at Richmond Auto Mall is a 2018. suggests 2+ cars

My car, that I bought at Richmond Auto Mall, is a 2018. suggests 1 car

 

commas around an adjective clause means just extra information

 

Southern US – after emancipation of slaves- segregation laws

segregation – separation between white and Black people

 

Tomorrow – paragraph

 

I will ask to focus on either Rosa Parks or Viola Desmond. I will ask you to write a paragraph about a specific question. I do not want you to retell the story.

 

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