Good morning, everyone.
We will get started at 9:15.
REMINDER: My Zoom sentence structure is tonight 5-5:40.
The link is on the blog.
Today’s agenda
·
Test3 paragraph on “Ice Storm” (50m)
·
Verb tenses- simple present and present progressive
Wednesday
·
Begin noun clauses
Thursday
·
Continue noun clauses
Friday
·
Quiz – noun clauses
·
Begin adjective clauses
·
REVIEW
of ways to do grabbers/hooks:
1.
funnel
2.
anecdote
3.
historical
4.
fact/statistic
5.
question
6.
quotation
7.
idiom/saying
Choose
one. Start your paragraph of with it. It will make your paragraph, essay,
or presentation lively and engaging.
Test3
Write
a paragraph of at least of 150 words. Include a grabber.
Submit
it by 10:15
What
are some ways the author compared the boys to the pheasants in “What Happened
During the Ice Storm”?
Please
don’t give me a plot summary.
Let’s
take our 10-minute break
rise/
raise
rise-
goes up on its own
raise
– lifted up
Verb tenses
**simple present – most basic verb tense
-use
it all day long
-
habit, usual activity, normal, habitual, daily action
action verbs
Mei drinks green
tea. – habit, daily, usually
You take care of
your grandchildren. -always
Sarah does yoga.
I play guitar.
-subject verb agreement (important to remember)
I play guitar.
You play guitar.
He/She/Doris plays guitar.
-non-action verbs- state of being, truth, fact
Sarah is a
doctor.
She is 53 years
old.
Doug lives in
Nova Scotia.
2 plus 2 equals
four.
Victoria is the
capital of BC.
**present progressive/continuous ‘ing’- happening right now
or currently, suggests impermanence, impermanent, temporary action or state
auxiliary verb + ‘ing’ verb
is walking
The kid is walking
on the snow.
The kids are walking
on the snow.
She is studying dental
assisting at VCC. – currently, but not necessarily at the this moment
Al is learning guitar. – these days
They are building a house.- these days, currently
Use present progresive to suggest an action that is happening
now but is not going to continue forever.
COMPARE:
Sarah lives in Canada. – will stay here
Sarah is living in Canada. –will not stay forever
I live in Canada now.
I am living in Canada now. – not sure
Feroz lives in Seattle,and Nahid is living in Vancouver.
I am living in Vancouver, but I’m not sure what I’m going to
do. I would like to stay.
Kai normally plays soccer, but he is playing a lot of volleyball
these days.
I study English. -forever
I am studying English. -endgoal- Most people
I do yoga. – forever- Most people.
I am doing yoga.
Exercise 1
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