Thursday, 13 April 2023

EF67 Class 35- sentence combining, begin essay

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 9:15.

 

Today’s agenda

·      Sent comb. “Sheet 3”

·      Check on presentations

·      Continue essay

 

Friday

·      Finish up the presentations

·      Continue essay

 

ROUGH PLAN

 

FINAL WEEK – Return books

Monday

·      Mic practice

·      Presentations-

·      Optional quiz rewrite

This is for the people who email me. Deadline is today at 5.

 

 

Tuesday

·      Optional test rewrite

·      Presentations

 

Wednesday

·      Presentations

·      Essay

 

Thursday

·      Review

 

Friday **Final day**

·      Final reports

·      One-on-one chats or via email

 

 

For the most part, poeple have been keeping up on the work:

doing the homework, doing the quizzes and tests, getting here on time, participating in class.

In classes, you don’t want to fall behind. Keep up on the work.

IDIOM Don’t let yourself get behind the 8-ball.

IDIOM Put your ducks in a row.

 

What does your sock drawer look like?

WISE SAYING FROM A FRIEND How you do anything is how you do everything.

 

 

-too organized, cannot tolerate any mess- OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder

obsessive- thoughts that you cannot control

compulsive- actions that you cannot control

 

These are the sentence combining solutions that you sent me.

 

I have never understood a certain proverb which says, "You cannot have your cake and eat it, too." direct speech “ “

 

My mother once interpreted it for me, and she told me that it meant you cannot have everything. COMPOUND COMPLEX

My mother once interpreted it for me, telling me that it meant you cannot have everything.

 

For example, it is impossible to find a job that pays well, and it is impossible to find a job that interests you all the time and challenges you every day. REP

CONDENSE

For example, it is impossible to find a job that pays well, interests you all the time, and challenges you every day.

A, B, and C.  items in a series

 

Who would m/bake a cake and who would not enjoy eating it afterwards? REP

CONDENSE          Who would make a cake and not enjoy eating it afterwards?

 

SAYING You cannot have your cake and eat it, too.

 

There’s definitely something wrong with the logic of the illustration if you consider it carefully.

 

I have never understood a certain proverb that says,” You can not have your cake and eat it, too.”

 

My mother once interpreted it for me, and it meant you cannot have everything.

 

It is impossible to find a job that interests and challenges you all the time; for example, it pays well. XXX RW

 

I have often wondered why it has to be that way, but it may be true. REORDER

It may be true, but I have often wondered why it has to be that way.

 

6. When you think about the illustration of the cake, it doesn’t make sense.

The illustration of the cake doesn’t make sense when you think about it. NATURAL-SOUNDING

illustration- explanation, example, drawing(not in this case)

 

When you think about it, being organized is less work than being disorganized.

I never really thought about it.

 

8. If you consider it carefully, there is definitely something wrong with the logic of the illustration.

 

Try some from Sheet #4. We will share them tomorrow.

 

 

Essay work

 

sentences—paragraphs—essays – papers - college,university (5,10, 20 pages) – thesis- graduating from degree(80-120 pages) – book(300-600 pages)

 

** sentences- sentence types: simple, compound, complex, compound-complex

FOUNDATION OF ALL WRITING

 

** paragraphs – structure   Grabber

Topic sentence

Supporting sentences,

Concluding sentence

(150-200 words)

 

- format                - font size, doublespace, indent, paper orientation

 

** essay -multi-paragraph writing, 3-5,6,7 paragraphs on a topic

 

EXAM Writing prompt: “essay form” “in paragraphs” “multi-paragraph” – means write an essay

“at least 300 words”  sweetspot, the Goldilocks zone (300-400)

 

 

We will focus on the five-paragraph essay – basic model, our focus

 

essay- French “to try” , try to explain something in full, attempt to describe a subject completely, endeavour to explicate an idea

 

essay – an attempt to write a longer piece that covers a topic well

 

Writing to Communicate p50

From a paragraph to an essay- expand the paragraph in to the essay.

Distribute photocopy

“Expanding the Paragraph"

 

Model Paragraph #1 “Man’s Best Friend”

Model Essay #1 “Man’s Best Friend”

 

Structure of this paragraph

-Grabber(optional, highly suggested)

-Topic sentence

-Body- supporting points

Supporting idea 1  

-point

            -subpoint 1

            -subpoint 2

Supporting idea 2

            -point

            -subpoint 1 & subpoint 2

Supporting idea 3

            -point

            -subpoint 1

            -subpoint 2

-Concluding sentence- restate the topic sentence

(150-200ww)

 

*The writer chose to not start with a grabber. Starting with a grabber is a good idea.

Possible grabbers: ask a question, short anecdote, fact or statistic, history, etc.

 

 

Model Essay 1- same topic “Man’s Best Friend”

-almost three times as long, not five times, not 10 pp

-divided into paragraphs, five paragraphs

*The five-paragraph is the basic essay model

 

 

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An essay has three sections (five paragraphs):

**

1.    Introductory paragraph – usually one paragraph, introduces the topic, thesis statement, and main points of the essay

2.    Body paragraphs– usually several paragraphs- 2,3,4,5 paragraphs (3 is the magic number for a standard five-paragraph), discussion, explanation, description of the main points of the essay

3.    Concluding paragraph- usually one paragraph, restatement of the introduction, restates the topic, thesis and main points, ends with a clincher (like a grabber only at the end of the piece)

 

Length -300-350 words, not too long, short compact paragraphs, more than twice, almost three times as long as one paragraph, not a book

 

“THE BARE BONES OF THE FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY”

 

***THESIS- Latin ‘idea’ theory, theoretical,

 

Writing to Communicate p53- excellent graphic representation of expanding a paragraph into an essay

 

“The Benefits of Cycling”

Good model for a five-paragraph essay

 

 

Read these for HW

“Animal Camouflage”

paragraph version on p54

essay verison on pp55-56

 

Next few days – Wrting to Communicate Chapters 4,5,6,7,8

Start to review these chapters.

Preparing for our essay on Wednesday

Getting a deeper idea of what a five-paragraph essay is all about

 

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