EF56 Class 21 - Review of simple and compound sentences, Literary Terms, Roses Sing on New Snow

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 9:15.

 

Today’s agenda:

·      Simple and compound sentence review

·      Literary Terms

·      “Roses”

·      Choose vacab the adj cl for quiz tomorrow

 

Friday

·      Quiz#6 – adjective clauses

·      Return Test#2 – go over, discuss strategies

·      Continue with “Roses Sing on New Snow”

·      Continue with “Literary Terms”

 

Monday is a holiday – Thanksgiving Monday

 

Tuesday- back to school

·      Test#3 on Roses

 

Next week – midterm recommendations, based on

Quiz1,2,3,4,5,6

Test1,2,3

Spoken – in class

HW

 

We are at the halfway point.

The next four weeks will be mostly tests. We have 1-2 quizzes left.

The tests will make up the bulk of your mark.

It’s time to turn up the heat. Now is the time to put your car in gear.

This is not the time to slack off. This is the time to get going.

 

Quiz- 25-28%

Test- 55%

Spoken

HW

 

 

-Simple Sentences

Example of simple sentences. Models to follow.

Question

SV

SSV

SVV

SSVV

 

Practice 1

1.    Do you know the origin and customs of Kwanzaa.

 

Practice 2

prepositional phrases – preposition + noun

on the road   by the table

1.    From 6 am until 10am Angel works out.

 

 

I have a proofreading business for university students, mostly nursing students at UBC and SFU who are doing their Masters degrees.

 

proofread and edit, editor- polish their writing, make it nicer, clearer

 

 

-Compound sentences

SV , SOBA SV.

SV; SV.

SV; TRANS, SV.

Practice 1

1.Diners still dot the highways of the United States ___ they are not as popular as they once were.

Diners still dot the highways of the United States, but they are not as popular as they once were.

Diners still dot the highways of the United States; however, they are not as popular as they once were.

 

Sentence writing will improve with practice.

It is amazing what you can accomplish with daily practice in. Give it a year. Your progress will snowball. You will be unrecognizable to yourself.

 

 

Literary Terms- academic classes, everday vocab – TV show, movie, theatre, book, music

 

Titanic – fairly widely watched movie

 

setting

character

 

movies / TV – extras, background

 

book club, university, college, group of friends

 

Meetup.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read aloud. Choose 10 vocab words for quiz tomorrow.

1.    restaurant

2.    compliment

3.    sniff

4.    flavour

5.    fresh

6.    garden

7.    arrive

8.    miserable

9.    order

10.                       identical