Good morning, everyone.
Today’s agenda:
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Continue essay work
“Good Advice about Planning an Essay”
“Brainstorming Techniques”
“Essay Plan”
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Finish presentation work
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Animal Farm Chapter 9
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Animal Farm Chapter 10
IF TIME
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Continue parallelism
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Continue sentence combining
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Remaining verb exercises – verb tenses,
phrasal verbs
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Vocab exercise
Monday
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Presentation day
I will gather the scripts first thing, at
the beginning of class. Make sure you have one printed for me.
6 groups to do their thing.
·
Animal Farm Chapter 10
IF TIME
·
Continue parallelism
·
Continue sentence combining
·
Remaining verb exercises – verb tenses,
phrasal verbs
·
Vocab exercise
Tuesday
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MOSTLY THE FULL CLASS
Final test AF Ch 7-10 – essay
I will not have much time to mark the essay in
detail- grammar
I’ll read it and give a mark.
Wednesday
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Marks Day
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Final class
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Not an instructional day
We can meet one-on-one to discuss your final result.
“Good Advice about Planning an Essay” – Eng 11 and 12
‘the writing prompt’- question, topic that the teacher is giving
you to write about
e.g. Discuss Old Major’s
vision for the animals’ future.”
Are the animals
following Old Major’s vision?”
ADVICE TO Eng 12- Read the writing prompt five times. Read every word.
What is the teacher asking me to write about?
“Brainstorming Techniques”
“Essay Plan”
An outline to help you/us stay organized.
“Advanced-Level Verb Tense Exercises”
11. past tense – CHOICE simple
past ‘watched’
past
progressive ‘was watching’
past progressive – often used when there is another action,
interrupts the first action
12. have been – present perfect- from the past until now
13. didn’t come did
not come, could not come couldn’t come
14. had studied- past perfect, studied- simple past could study
15. had read-past perfect, read- simple past
Past perfect is rarely used by native English speakers. We
usually subsitute simple past.
16. future tenses- will run, is going to run, will be
running
present progressive can suggest future- is running
He is going to Seattle this weekend.
17. met
18. was
19. has not seen -
preset perfect
20. walk – simple present
I like to walk to ...
I like walking to ...
like + gerund
like + infinitive
hate
love
prefer
begin
start
continue
She will continue to study math. She will continue studying dance.
can’t stand- really don’t like I can’t stand listening to people complain.
21. He just finished his degree. He has just finished his degree.
22. taught was teaching had taught
23. have been reading
was reading-casual
24. have travelled – present perfect
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