Friday, 31 March 2023

EF34 Class 28 - narrative writing

  

EF3/4

 

Today’s agenda-

·      Begin review of verb tenses

·      Continue narrative paragraphs

·      Listening

 

Monday

·      Continue narrative paragraphs

Paragraph tomorrow

 

Tuesday

·      Test#3 – narrrative paragraph

 

 

 

Review of verb tenses

Simple present – always, habit, usual, everyday, true, state of being

Simple past

Simple future

 

*simple present

I take a shower everyday. I usually take a shower in the morning.

I go to work in the evenings six days a week.

I drink 3-4 glasses of water every day.

Every year, I throw/have a birthday party for my son.

Dogs are animals. truth, fact

The capital of Eritria is Asmara.

This course has three weeks left.

She is very tall. She is a happy person.

He is from Iran.

*simple past- one event in the past

She moved/ immigrated/ came to Canada in 2017.

Yesterday, I was busy with work.   Yesterday, I was busy working.

I was born on August 19th. passiv voice

Yesterday, she was very happy because she saw a pretty girl.

My friend went to the hospital last night because she had a problem with one of her eyes.

Last night, I had a crick in my neck.

 

buy   bought

drive   drove

see   saw

learn   learned

eat   ate

 

*simple future

will   OR   be going to

will – decide right now

be going to – already decided

I am going to get a bus and the Canada Line to the airport.

She will get a coffee. I will get a tea, please.

 

simple present

simple past

simple future

 

Let’s take a few minutes and write some sentences from our own imagination that use these three tenses.

 

I visited my friend last night.

I visited my friend yesterday evening.

 

 

I am going to Hong Kong next month.

Every day, she drinks green tea in the morning.

He has to do his taxes by April 30th.

My son will play Fortnite with his friends.

My son and his friends will play Fortnite together.

 

I helped my mom to clean up the kitchen.

I am going to study business management at ABC School next year.

I am going to study business management in/from September.

I am going to study business management in the future.

I am going to study business management whenever I finish high school.

I will/am going to have a test next Tuesday. sounds more natural

 

Practice. Practice.

simple present

simple past

simple future

 

 

Fun listening to a nice song.

Baby Beluga-

Misty- jazz song, sung by Ella Fitgerald

 

violins begin to play

leading me on

notice how hopelessly I’m lost

following

on my own

wander

wonder

 

Ella Fitzgerald – famous jazz singer

 

 

simple present

simple past

simple future

 

 

 

 

 

Narrative writing – tell a story

 

Structure of a narrative paragraph

 

Topic sentence- usually the first sentence , addresses the question, responds to the question, shows the reader what the paragraph is about

 

Supporting sentences- tell the story, step by step, chronological, time-order

 

Concluding sentence- wraps up the paragraph, ends the paragraph

(80-120 words)

 

EXAMPLE QUESTION:

Write about a scary experience when you were a kid.

 

Topic Sentence

          The time I got lost when I was a kid was very scary.

 

Supporting sentences- tell the story in 5-7 sentences

I remember that I was out shopping with my mother. She was looking at clothes, and I wandered away. I saw her across the store and walked over to her. When I got next to her, I realized that this person was not my mother. It was a stranger.  KEEP TELLING THE STORY TO THE END

 

Concluding sentence

That was a scary moment for me.

 

 ROUGH COPY

The time I got lost when I was a kid was very scary. I remember that I was out shopping with my mother. She was looking at clothes, and I wandered away. I saw her across the store and walked over to her. When I got next to her, I realized that this person was not my mother. It was a stranger. I ran around the store yelling for her. She heard me and came right over. She had been looking for me, too. When my mother finally found me, she looked very relieved. My fear left me as she took my hand and we left the store together. That was a scary moment for me and for her.

 

Homework. Choose one:

“What is your dream for the future?”

“What was a scary moment that happened to you?”

“What did you do on your first day in Canada?”

 

- topic sentence

- supporting sentences- 5-7 sentences tell the story

-concluding sentence

(80-120 ww)

 

Email it to me by Sunday night. We can look at them together Monday in class. The stories will be anonymous.

 

“In Iran, I lived in a small town.”

I will change it, or you change it: “In ABC Land, I lived in a small town.”

 

 

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