Friday, 23 June 2023

EF 7 11 Class 41 Essay, pres, vt

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s agenda:

·      Continue essay work

“Good Advice about Planning an Essay”

“Brainstorming Techniques”

“Essay Plan”

·      Finish presentation work

·      Animal Farm Chapter 9

·      Animal Farm Chapter 10

 

 

IF TIME

·      Continue parallelism

·      Continue sentence combining

·      Remaining verb exercises – verb tenses, phrasal verbs

·      Vocab exercise

 

 

Monday

·      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

·      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

·      Marks Day

·      Final class

·      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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