Return books
tomorrow and Monday
Today’s agenda:
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Return Quiz#6 noun clauses
go
over, rewrite
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Continue sentence combining
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Continue work on spoken presentations
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Idioms
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Word List 1.6
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HW Email
me by Friday at 5 if you want to do the optional replacement quiz.
Finish your spoken presentations for Tuesday
and Wednesday. You will give me your written paragraphs on the day that you do
your presentation.
Friday
I will be absent
Friday. Another teacher will be here.
Monday
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Sentence combining
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Causative verbs
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Return books: Know More English, Introduction
to Academic Writing
Tuesday
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Spoken presentations
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Optional replacement quiz
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Return books: Know More English, Introduction
to Academic Writing
Wednesday
·
Spoken presentations
Thursday
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Test- paragraph- final work for marks
Friday
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final day
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marks and reports
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non-instruction day
Noun clauses- verbs – thinking, talking-
brain and mouth
Quiz#6
Write a sentence with a noun clause for each.
1.feel rest
I feel like/that I need a rest.
I feel that you need to take a rest.
2.think speak
Joe thinks that he should speak with his sister about
their mother.
I think that speaking English everyday is good for me.
3.realize practice
The students realize that they have to practice in order
to get better.
4.say restaurant
Her aunt said that the new Afghan restaurant is very
good.
5.know study
She knows that she has to study for her math test.
I know how to study my lesson.
I know how to study effectively.
6.believe travel
Doctors believe that travelling is good for the mind.
Sentence Combining
“Shopping”
PROCESS
1.Kernel
2.Find new information
3.Decide what kind of sentence we want.
2.My mom bought some jeans, a sweater, and a jacket for my
sister. SIMPLE
My mom bought some jeans, a sweater and a jacket for my sister.
words in a series AAA, BBB and CCC.
OPTION
She likes dogs, cats, and fish. comma
She likes dogs, cats and fish. no comma
Both are OK. You can choose which way you want to do it.
This is not, SOBA. SOBA is for compound sentences.
‘and’ has several uses in English
Joe is tall and thin. SIMPLE
Joe is tall, and Maria is thin. COMPOUND
*three or more things in a series (in a row) ,
She has lived in Canada, Japan, and China.
She has lived in Canada, Japan and China.
*two things no ‘and’
She has lived in Canada and China.
COMMON ERROR
She has lived in Canada, China. XXX
She has lived in Canada and China.
For two things, you must use ‘and’ ‘or’
3.My mom bought my present
at the same time
birthday
My mom bought me my present, and it was for my birthday at
the same time. REDUCE, COMPACT
My mom bought me my birthday present at the same time.
At the same time, my mom bought me my birthday present.
At the same time, my mom bought me my a present which
was for my birthday. adj cl
At the same time, my mom bought me a present for my
birthday.
Tomorrow, we will have a picnic.
We will have a picnic tomorrow.
4. I could ask some friends to come over the night of my
birthday.
ask some friends to come over – causative verb
I was sick the day of my exam.
We went to Kelowna the week of Christmas.
SIMPLER IS BETTER I could ask some friends who came could
come over for my birthday.
I could ask that some friends could come over for my
birthday. N CL
5.We decided to
stay home and to watch a movie on TV.
We decided to stay home
and watched a movie on TV. SIMPLE SVV
How many things did you decide?
We decided to stay home because we wanted to watch a movie on
TV.
COMPLEX- ADV CL
We decided to stay home because we wanted to watch a movie that
was on TV. adj cl
We saw a cat in a tree. SIMPLE
We saw a cat that was in a tree. COMPLEX- ADJ CL
We decided that SV. N CL
We decided that we would stay home and watch a movie on
TV. N CL
I have decided that I will stay in Canada.
We decided to stay at home; therefore, we watched a movie on
TV. COMPOUND
movie- everyday word
film- sounds artsy, fancier, big deal
film industry-
I do the dishes and sweep the floor.
She is a domestic engineer.
salespeople
sales associates
public transportation facilitator
bus driver
IDIOMS- everyday expressions, very useful
https://www.learnenglishteam.com/commonly-used-english-idioms/
hatchet
hammer and nail\
dawn- sunrise
dusk- sunset
stream – very small river
lake
shallow river
axe
hatchet
hammer and nail\
dawn- sunrise
dusk- sunset
stream – very small river
lake
shallow river
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