Good morning, everyone.
We will get started at 9:15.
Today’s agenda
·
return quiz- go over
RW for 1 BONUS PT
·
sentence review exercises- simple, compound, complex
·
Using quoation marks
·
sentence combining
Thursday
·
Easter lecture
·
Business letters
Friday
·
Good Friday
·
NO SCHOOL
Monday
·
Easter Monday
·
NO SCHOOL
Tuesday
·
First Nations
·
quoting “ “ citing text,
borrowing words from a story
Final two weeks
-Essays
-Spoken presentation
Quiz #4
Write a sentence with an adjective
clause for each.
1. alley that
The alley that is behind my house
is very dirty.
2. slim which
My wedding ring which has a slim band was a
gift from my husband.
3. upgrade who
The manager who upgraded the restaurant menu
is very modern.
upgrade a skill
upgrade a machine
upgrade a document
I have to upgrade my resume.
CV- curriculum vitae- high-level jobs
4. roam who
The strange man who roams around the
neighborhood late at night is picking up garbage.
5. struggle who
She helps children/people who struggle with
reading.
6. section that
The donuts that are in the bakery section ar
delicious.
who - people
that – things,
animal
which – special things,
unique things
Most challenging -tricky
Practice will make
this better.
OTHERS
whom
where
whose
RW for Bonus PT
Example sentences
The woman looks
slim is wearing pair of beautiful earrings which her husband gave her.
RW
The woman looks
slim and is wearing pair of beautiful earrings which her husband gave
her. SIMPLE
The woman looks
slim, and she is wearing pair of beautiful earrings which her husband
gave her. COMPOUND
The woman who looks
slim is wearing pair of beautiful earrings which her husband gave her. COMPLEX-
ADJ CL
That woman who looks
slim... ‘that’
Words that should
be singular but are plural:
jeans Her
jeans are black. Her pair of bell-bottom jeans is black.
scissors The scissors are dull.
pants
glasses His glasses are old and bent. Her pair of
glasses was bent.
Sentence review:
SIMPLE
COMPOUND
COMPLEX
This is everything
that you need to be a pretty good writer in English.
MY ADVICE: Stick to
the basics- you’ll be ok.
‘
‘
“ “
– double quotation marks – used much much more often
·
Uses of quotation marks 1.titles
2.reported
speech
3.irony,
ironic finger quotes (for talking, casual)
4.
borrowed words from a text
1.
titles – short story, chapter in a book, magazine
article, newspaper article, part of a book, not a whole book
magazine Fretboard Journal
article “Bluegrass Now”
Starry Messenger “Earth and Moon”
Starry Messenger “Earth and
Moon”
“Viola Desmond”
Title of a novel, book by itself, magazine ,
something that has its own covers
magazine “Fretboard Journal”
Fretboard Journal or Fretboard
Journal
Choice: Impact OR Impact (Ctrl i- on a keyboard)
name
of a font style- italics (Ctrl i- on
a keyboard)
Our class ends at 11:30.
Our class ends at 11:30. italics
Animal Farm Animal Farm italics
writing with a pen, underline Impact
writing on computer, use italics Impact
In the novel Shanghai Girls, the
theme of ….
In the novel Shanghai Girls, the
theme of ….
“The Sniper” “Charles” We
can tell that these are titles of
short stories.
<<What Happened During the Ice
Storm>> NOT ENGLISH
<<The Sniper>> NOT ENGLISH
“The Sniper” THE ENGLISH WAY
Math
5>4 greater than 4<6 lesser
than
> alligator’s mouth The alligator always eats the bigger number.
“ “ usually double quotation marks, not single
‘ ‘
“ “
‘ ‘ normally we use double quoatation marks, 95%
of the time
e.g. The class really enjoyed reading Animal
Farm.
The class really enjoyed reading “Roses Sing
on New Snow”.
Luis is reading a book called Two Pieces
of Clothes. computer
Luis is reading a book called Two Pieces
of Clothes. handwriting
Charlotte’s Web is a very popular kids’ book.
“Animal Farm” XXX, not both, just one or the other
either belt or suspenders
IDIOM He is a belt and suspenders kind of
person.
kids’ book
- ‘ apostrophe, shows possession
Joe’s new bicycle is pretty rad/cool.
Joe’s sister’s bike is also really nice. one
sister
Joe’s sisters’ bikes are also really nice.
two sister, three sisters
The student’s writing is improving. 1 person
The students’ writing is improving. all of
them
Is the noun singular or plural. Put the
apostrophe after the word.
The dogs’ leashes got tangled.
punctuation – umbrella term – comma, period,
apostrophe, semicolon, colon, exclamation point, quotation mark, hyphen, dash
Jun read an article in The Vancouver Sun
called “What does Putin Want?”.
Jun read an article in The Vancouver Sun
called “The Future for Ukraine”.
italics
(ctrl+i)
Good Food has an article called
“Old-Fashioned Apple Pie”.
Good Food has an article called
“Old-Fashioned Apple Pie”.
bold- not necessary, used for visual
effects
Netflix series The Sinner “Episode 1:
The Argument”
2.
reported speech, direct speech- exact words that
someone says, quote, quotation
Mary said, “I am going to be late today.”
exact words
You said, “I will pick up the kids.”
Barack Obama said, “Yes, we can!”
indirect speech- not the exact words, just
the idea
Mary said that she will be late today.
noun clause
You said that you would pick up the kids.
noun clause
Barack Obama said that we can do it!
DIRECT She
said, “That will be fine.”
INDIRECT She
said that that would be fine.
Mary said that she is going to be late
today. indirect speech, noun clause
COMMON ERROR
Mary said that I am going to be late today.
CONFUSING DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH
FIXES
Mary said that she is going to be late
today. noun clause indirect
Mary said, “I am going to be late today.”
direct
MIXING VERB TENSES IS OK SOMETIMES
Joe said that he will go to Hawaii for
vacation.
COMMON ERROR My mother said that you should
do your homework. Who is ‘you’?
FIXED My mother said to me, “You should do your
homework.” direct
FIXED My mother said that I should do my
homework. indirect
My daughter said, “Let’s go to the pet
store.” DIRECT SPEECH
My daughter said that we should go to the
pet store. INDIRECT SPEECH
that we should go to the pet store - noun
clause
let’s – let us
FURTHER INSTRUCTION ON QUOTING DIRECT AND
INDIRECT SPEECH:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/quotation_marks/index.html
3.
to show irony, finger quotes- informal, casual speaking
three kinds of irony –
ironing
1. verbal irony – say something but mean the
opposite,
not
hurtful, gentle humour
“ “
finger quotes
sarcasm- meant to hurt someone, rough
humour, biting humour
He is a sarcastic person.
SPOKEN Joan went to a party last night. She
missed work today because she is “sick”. She has the “party flu.” She is
hungover. She has a hangover.
a hangover- headache, dehydration, and
nausea from drinking too much the night before
2. dramatic irony – you know something that
the character
in the
book or movie doesn’t know
3. situational irony- you try to do something
to help someone but you wind up hurting them, you get the opposite result from
what you intended
IDIOM
wind up – what happens in the end
“Dora wanted to move to Chicago, but she wound
up going to Toronto.”
“Sue is studying business in college. She will
probably wind up being a manager in a company.”
proposterous (adj) – ridiculous, outrageous
MOST
IMPORTANT FOR US
4. borrowing
words from a story , putting them into your paragraph,
essay,
citation, citing
Borrow
words from a text. Incorporate the words into our writing. Include the words in
our sentence.
-borrowing words without quoting them is plagiarism.
CONTINUE TOMORROW
Mount Baker-
Washington State- across the border
skier- out of
bounds
snowboarder- tree
well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN2TDQkQp6E
Sentence Combining Sheet 1
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