Thursday, 12 October 2023

EF67 Class 26 Using Quotations, verb tense

 

EF67

This week/next week – Using Quotations

 

Today’s agenda

·      Talk about new reporting procedures

Distribute Prescribed Learning Outcome documents

PLOs Prescribed Learning Outcomes

EF1,2,3,4,5,6,7

MF 4,5,6,7

 

http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/pdfs/literacy_foundations/2010literacyfoundations_ela.pdf

 

·      Return Test#3

RW for Bonus pt

Pass in today or first thing tomorrow

 

·      Reevaluate midterm recs for 50-64% students.

64%+ YES

50-64% NO

On Monday, registration will be opened to new students.

 

·      “Using Quotations”

·      Continue review of verb tenses

·      Begin modals

·      Continue complex sentences- adjective clauses

·      Begin “Dead Man’s Path”

·      HW   Read “Dead Man’s Path” for tomorrow. Make notes for Thought Questions

 

Friday

·      “Using Quotations”

·      Continue complex sentences- adjective clauses

Choose vocab for the quiz on adj cl - Monday or Tuesday

 

 

Monday or Tuesday

·      Quiz#4 on adjective clauses

·      Continue “Dead Man’s Path”

 

 

 

 

Test#3

Write a paragraph of at least 150 words on one of the following topics. Submit it by 1:15.

 

1.    Write about one conflict in the story.

The main conflict is the person vs person conflict between Mr Wei and Wang Wei.

The main conflict is the person vs himself conflict between Mr Wei and himself.

 

2.    Do you think the students will respect Mr Wei after he makes his confession? Why or why not?

 

 

Quotation marks   

 

        - single quotations marks

   “ – double quotation marks – used much much more often

·      Uses of quotation marks      1.titles e.g. short stories

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

 

“I Confess”

“What Happened During the Ice Storm”

Grammar In Use

Grammar In Use

Korean Daily

Korean Daily

The Vancouver Sun

The Province

The Vancouver Sun

The Province

 

 

magazine Fretboard Journal

article “Bluegrass Now”

National Geographic “Sumatra”

 

Title of a novel, book by itself, magazine , something that has its own covers

magazine “Fretboard Journal”

Fretboard Journal or Fretboard Journal

ctrl i- on a keyboard

 

name of a font style- 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 will 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.    quoting from a story- 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.

 

“I Confess”

“great faith”(1)

Write your own sentence. Incorporate those words into your sentence. It has to be grammatical.

Mr.Wei was stressed out because he knew that the school officials had put “great faith”(1) in him to be a effective teacher.

 

“harsh voice”

Write your own sentence. Incorporate those words into your sentence. It has to be grammatical.

Mr.Wei felt that he should talk to the student, Wang Wei, using  a ”harsh voice”(1) in order to intimidate him.  

 

Borrow 1,2,3,4 words. Borrow short phrases.

Don’t copy a whole sentence.

 

The quotation marks show two things.

1. The words were quoted, borrowed from the text.

          2. The words are evidence that your opinion is rooted in the story.

 

We can try some tomorrow.

 

bilingual- reasonably fluent in two languages

trilingual- fluent in three languages

polyglot- fluent in four, five, six languages

She is a polyglot.

ploy glot- many tongues

 

languages- dialects- regional dialects

patois ‘pat wa’- mix of two languages in a region

 

 

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Review of verb tenses:

12 verb tenses:

1.    simple present- habitual, daily action

2.    simple past- one event in the past, finished

I was go went to school.

3.    simple future- “will” “am going to”

4.    present progressive- happening right now, happening currently

‘ing’  am going, is going, are going

I am going to school. XXX

I am watching a series on Netflix.

5.    past progressive- happening in the past, was interrupted

I was watching a movie when the wifi died.

She watched a movie last night.

6.    future progressive- ‘ing’ action in the future

She will be driving to Surrey at 6 o’clock.

Substitute simple future

She will drive to Surrey at 6 o’clock.

 

7.    present perfect- from past until now

Mei has lived in Vancouver since 1998.

Joe has learned Spanish for two years.

Joe learned Spanish for two years. simple past – casual, works

She has seen all of Almodovar’s movies.

I have known my best friend since I was twenty years old.

 

8.    past perfect

English speakers rarely use this verb tense. We usually substitute simple past.

She had lived in Japan for two years.

We had waited for the bus for 45 minutes.

 

9.    future perfect

substitute simple future

She will have worked at the company for thirty years by the time she retires.

 

10.                       present perfect progressive

11.                       past perfect progressive

12.                       future perfect progressive

 

 

 

 

 

Review of verb tenses:

7 most important verb tenses:

1.    simple present

2.    simple past

3.    simple future

4.    present progressive

5.    past progressive

6.    present perfect

7.    present perfect progressive

 

present perfect progressive

from the past until now, ‘ing’

Mei has been living in Vancouver for two years. – suggests temporary

 

Mei has lived in Vancouver for two years.

 

Joan is working at Starbucks. – sounds temporary

Joan works at Starbucks. – sounds permanent

I live in Vancouver.

I am living in Vancouver.

 

 

 

 

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