Good morning, everyone.
Today’s agenda:
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“Correction Codes”
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Return paragraph
Address areas
Optional RW for Bonus pt
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Continue overview of types of sentences
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Distribute “Critieria for a Good ...”
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Listening- song lyrics
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HW Finish
the paragraph rewrite
Read over the criteria
Monday
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Talk about “Criteria”
Read over the “Criteria”. Choose two to
focus on.
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Continue sentence work- simple sentences
A lot of embassies are in Ottawa.
bond(v) – connect emotionally with people
Parents bond with their children by spending time together.
band- music group
IDIOM overnight flight- “the red-eye”
I’m taking the red eye to Bogota.
I’m going to drive all night to Calgary.
gig in Gibsons
pedal steel guitar
mandolin
Telecaster
“Correction Codes”
CS He likes coffee, she likes tea.
FIXES
He likes coffee. She likes tea.
He likes coffee, but/and she likes tea.
He likes coffee; however, she likes tea.
punc- comma, period. semicolon ;
apostrophe ‘ quotation marks “ “
exclamation point/mark !
question mark ? hyphen - brackets ( )
square brackets [ ] colon :
You can rewrite it for a bonus point – today or first thing Monday
Good place to start!
Pass-in wriitng
Use lined paper with margins
Pen
Doublespace
Name and class in top right corner
Indent the first word
Examples:
She is busy.
She is busy + gerunds
She is busy studying and learning English.
I am busy talking to students.
gonna- going to
wanna- want to
like + infinitive OR gerund
She likes to walk. OR She likes walking.
She is 22 years
old and is a very nice person. SIMPLE SVV
She is 22 years
old and a very nice person. SIMPLE SV
She is 22 years
old, and she is a very nice person.
COMPOUND
1,2 3- 9 write them
out one two three
10- + use
numeral 15 22 106
She has 2 two children.
She has 17 children.
25% twenty five
percent ???
a. adverb clauses – because if when unless until after before although
etc
We will do about 30.
“Sarah doesn’t want to talk to Maria because they had an
argument.”
main clause adverb clause no comma
“Because Sarah and Maria had an argument, Sarah doesn’t want to
talk to her.”
adverb clause main clause comma
“We won’t go to the beach if it rains.”
“If it rains, we won’t go to the beach.”
She is happy, because she won the lottery. XXX no comma, small
error
She is happy because she won the lottery.
** IMPORTANT POINT: You always need a SV. If you don’t have a SV
for each clause, you will likely run into trouble. Special case: imperative
Sit down. You sit down. implied subject
Example: My sister lives
in Vancouver, works in a store. XXX
FIX
My sister lives in
Vancouver and works in a store.
My sister lives in
Vancouver, and she works in a store.
My sister lives in
Vancouver; she works in a store.
My sister lives in
Vancouver; also, she works in a store.
b. noun clauses – brain, tongue
brain- think believe know
guess understand imagine
remember, etc.
tongue- say whisper state
yell remind claim
argue, etc.
that why how
“Mohammed thinks that he should call his brother.”
“The little girl believes that there is a monster in her
closet.”
“Maria said that we need more printer paper.”
“Junko didn’t tell us why she quit her job.”
“I don’t know how
I can fix my car.”
“I don’t know how
to fix my car.” More common- different pattern
c. adjective clauses – who that which
“Fatima’s neighbour, who is 86 years old, still lives on
her own.”
“Marta has some nice boots that she got from a fancy store in
Tokyo.”
- commas around
adjective clauses – complicated
- other words less important: ‘whom’ ‘whose’ ‘where’
COMPOUND COMPLEX
e.g. Mei loves to eat chocolate, but Junko doesn’t like it because
she is allergic to it.
I don’t want to go to the party, but you should go if you want to.
Overview – Over the next few weeks, I will teach these sentences
styles to you in great detail. If you learn these styles, you will be able to
do anything that you want in written English: school, job, life, writing.
SIMPLE
COMPOUND
COMPLEX
COMPOUND COMPLEX
If you are willing to come with me on this journey through English
sentences, let’s do it! We all will learn a lot.
“Critieria for a Good ...”
criteria – required level, requirement
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