Thursday, 15 June 2023

EF7 11 Class 35 Parallelism, AF Ch 7

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s agenda:

·      Begin parallelism

·      Animal Farm Chapter 7

·      IF TIME Remaining verb exercises – verb tenses, phrasal verbs

·      Test AF Ch 4-6 Paragraph with “ ”

 

Friday

·      Finish Animal Farm Chapter 7

·      Begin essay work- likely write one essay

·      Continue parallelism

·      Sentence comb

·      IF TIME Remaining verb exercises – verb tenses, phrasal verbs

 

 

Next week – group presentations (fun!! more to come)

Next week – optional replacement test

 

ROUGH PLAN FOR FINAL WEEK

Monday

·      Animal Farm Chapter 8

·      Begin presentation work

 

Tuesday

·      Animal Farm Chapter 8

·      Presentation work

 

Wednesday

·      Animal Farm Chapter 9

·      Presentation work

 

Thursday

·      Animal Farm Chapter 9

·      Presentation work

 

Friday

·      Animal Farm Chapter 10

 

Monday

·      Presentation day

·      Animal Farm Chapter 10

 

Tuesday

·      Final test AF Ch 7-10 – essay

I will not have much time to mark the essay in detail- grammar, vt

 

Wednesday

·      Marks Day

·      Final class

·      Not an instructional day

We can meet one-on-one to discuss your final result.

 

 

 

 

* Optional replacement test or quiz**

 

A few people have asked me about rewriting tests or quizzes. Maybe they had a bad test or a missed test or quiz.

 

In my classes, I offer an optional replacement test or quiz for anyone who would like to do that.

 

Next week, you will have an opportunity to replace one of the tests or quizzes that you wrote. This is optional. You don’t have to do it if you don’t want.

 

As of today, we have done four tests:

 

Test#1        x/6    x/12 doubled e.g. 4/6=8/12

Test#2                  x/12

Test#3                  x/12

Test#4                  x/12

 

TODAY

Test#5                  x/12

 

*I double the test marks because tests are worth twice as much as quizzes.

You have the marks for those.

 

You may have one test or quiz that you were not satisfied with. Perhaps you missed a test or quiz and did not make it up. You can replace one of those tests or quizzes. You choose which one.

One is one. Not two, not three. 1=1

 

You will do the replacement test or quiz during regular class time, as usual. It will be next week. We will do it the last hour of class.

 

The replacement test will be a new test or quiz, a new topic. The replacement test will be a paragraph, as usual. The replacement quiz will 12 sentences.

 

Your old mark will be replaced with the new mark. It will not be the higher of the two marks.

 

Think about if you would like to replace one of your test marks.

If you have pretty good marks, just leave them. Don’t bother with the replacement test.

 

Email me by Monday at 5PM which test you would like to replace, if you would like to replace one.

 

Send me an email.

Make sure you use a proper Subject line:

“Name, Class, Replacement Test.”

 

“Hi Al,

I want to replace Test#1.

Thanks,

Betty”

 

I will respond.

“Ok. Thanks.

Al”

 

I will not accept late emails. Monday at 5pm is the deadline to let me know if you want to replace a test.

 

This is the same deal as the optional replacement quiz.

 

SCENARIO#1

T1      8/12

T2      4/12 7/12

T3      10/12

T4      9/12

T5      8/12

 

Replace T2

New T2 7/12

Mark goes up

 

SCENARIO#2

T1      8/12

T2      7/12 6/12

T3      10/12

T4      9/12

T5      8/12

 

Replace T2

6/12

Mark goes down

 

Optional

 

 

Parallelism

- parallel- trigonometry

grammar – same types of words in a series

 

ADJ, ADJ, and ADJ.

N, N, and N.

 

-         higher level writing, style, beautiful, pleasing to the eye and ear

-         EASIER EXERCISES

-         1.       The understudy had bright green eyes, a great mass of blonde hair, and her face was red a red face.

-         2.       When winter comes, the Joneses will have to find either a warmer house or they will have to find a wood stove.

-         3.       When Moe was in high school, his parents spent a good deal of time not only helping him with his homework assignments but also they participated participating with him in school activities.

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-         4.       It is better to be happy than being (to be) sad.

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-         5.       The word for ‘left’ means "deceitful" in Italian, "awkward " in German, "malicious" in Spanish, and Russians define its meaning as "sneaky." “sneaky” in Russian. parallel

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-         6.       The contract was illegible, lengthy, and it is awkward.

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-         A, B and C.

-         A, B, and C. The Oxford Comma   , and  comma before , and in a list

-         Either way is fine. The Oxford Comma is a bit old-fashioned looking.

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-         COMMON ERROR

-         She likes dogs, cats. XXX

-         She likes dogs and cats.

-         She likes dogs, cats and squirrels.

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-         7.       To think that you can do anything is deceiving to deceive yourself.

-         Thinking that you can do anything is deceiving yourself.

-         IDIOM Seeing is believing. Show me, don’t tell me.

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-         FUNNY IDIOM Say it, don’t spray it! I want the news, not the weather.

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-         8.       Aspiring actors go to Hollywood to become stars and because they want to make money.

-         Aspiring actors go to Hollywood to become stars and because they want (to) make money.

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-         9.       The tourists amused themselves by playing shuffleboard, watching plays, and they went going to trendy restaurants in the center of the city.

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-         10.     Before you order anything, you should not only check with the purchasing agent but also the comptroller.

-         11.     The radiologist examined the MRI both carefully and with competence competently.

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-         competent – able to do a job well, qualified

-         She is a very competent accountant.

-         incompetent

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-         12.     Please return the medical records either to Dr. Jones or Dr. MacIntyre.

-         13.     This sofa is better for value, (for) appearance, and it is comfortable (for) comfort.

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-         comfort(n)

-         comfy(adj)- casual talking  comfortable(adj)

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-         14.     Succeeding at something is not necessarily the same as to get getting what you need.

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-         15.     The process seemed to Beth both a bore and annoying.

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-         Taken from https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/modulePARALLELposttestPrintable.htm

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