Wednesday, 2 November 2022

EF56 Class 37- review of sentences

 

EF56 CW567

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 9:15.

 

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Today’s agenda:

·      Collect Test#5 RW Bonus point #2

·      Review

·      Sentence combining

·      Listening work

·      Optional replacement test for the people who signed up for that (final hour of class)

 

Thursday

·      Review

·      Sentence combining

·      Listening work

·      Final paragraph Test#6

general topic, not specifically about short stories

Last hour of class

 

Friday- Last day of the course

·      Marks day

·      No instruction

·      Get final marks, etc.

 

The marks on Friday will be unofficial. I will submit my marks to the office on Friday afternoon. The official marks will be in the system by next week.

Next week is a term break. We will be back on Monday, November 14th.

 

 

How do humans learn new things?

-engagement in key

engagement – mind turned on, focus your attention on the topic

-really critical

 

divided mind, divided attention – thinking about other things qhile in a learning situtaiton, like a classroom

 

-really detrimetnal to learning

 

-cell phones very damaging to our learning

 

study – having a cell phone on the table while you are learning reduces your ability to acquire new information

 

learning requires discomfort – in order to elanr something, you have to strectch your comfort level, you have to push, challenge your normal state of comfort in the world

 

e.g. we learn a new grammar topic

your turn to practice- challenge, uncomfortable part,

 

if it easy, we aren’t learning

 

scaffolding- educational concept

 

rising up from the ground level, level by level

we start at a level where we are comfortable, reach, stretch up to the next level

-tough, not easy, work

-hard work

 

GOOD QUESTION FOR REFLECTION

What have you learned in the past nine weeks? What new level of scaffolding have you reached?

What progress have you made?

 

-to measure our progress from then until now

-important to review if and how much we are stretching toward our goals

 

 

 

SENTENCE TYPES

*SIMPLE

-most basic kind of sentence

-one clause, one independent clause, one main clause

subject + verb

SV   SSV   SVV   SSVV  Imperative- command   Interrogative- question

-simple sentences are very strong

-Use a simple sentence when you have something critical to say.

e.g. topic sentence- paragraph, essay – simple sentence

-simple sentence- clear, simple in structure, focussed(one idea), strong

- Simple does not mean easy. Simple does not mean low-level.

 

*COMPOUND

SV   SV 

seesaw, teeter totter

- joining two simple sentences

, SOBA   , so   , or   , but   , and   “I like cats, and she likes dogs.”

; semicolon

; TRANS,   ; however,   ; therefore,  

 

*COMPLEX

ADV CL – because   when   if   while   since

Call me if you want to go shopping. ADV CL

If you want to go shopping, call me. ADV CL

 

ADJ CL-

who - people

that – things, animals

which- unique things, special things (special to you)

95% of the time – who   that   which

OTHERS whom   whose   where – check those out yourself

 

N CL – verbs about the mind, brain, thinking

-         verbs about talking, speaking

 

that   She said that she would bring cookies to the meeting.

why  She doesn’t know why her boss is always late for meeting.

how  She is the only person who knows how to reboot the computers.

 

how INFINITIVE   how to ski   Mei knows how to ski.

 

MY ADVICE: Write every sentence as either simple, compound or complex. You will always be ok.

 

In my editing business, all of the corrections I write are simple, compound, and complex.

 

Practice. Daily practice.

You will be amazed at what you can accomplish in six months.

This is my advice from someone who cares about learning new skills.

It works for me. It will work for you, too.

 

Strong discipline- work ethic

-goalsetting

-scheduling

 

Optional replacment test for the people who signed up for it:

 

Replacement test:

150-250 ww

“What was the story from our class that you liked most? Why?”

 

 

 

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