EF45 Class 40

 

English Foundatio\ns 4/5

 

**Online Sentence Structure Tutorial**

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Today’s agenda

·      Finish sentence combining

·      Dialogues

·      Optional replacement test (last 1 hour of class)

 

Friday- last day

·      No instruction

·      Marks/Final reports

·      One-on-one meetings, just like midterm recs

 

Week break

Back on Tuesday, November 14th

 

 

Sentence Combining

-culmination of all the sentence work we have been doing for the past nine weeks

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sentences types:

SIMPLE                 SV   SSV   SVV   SSVV

COMPOUND       SV, SOBA SV.

COMPLEX             -ADVERB CLAUSES

                               -NOUN CLAUSES

                               -ADJECTIVE CLAUSES

 

Every sentence you write, should be one of these. Within these styles there are tens of thousands of sentences to write.

 

AREAS FOR DEVELOPMENT

-         punctuation        , .

-         verb tenses         simple present

                               simple past

                               simple future

                               present progressive

                               past progressive

                               present perfect

-vocabulary- word forms n, v, adj, adv

 

 

Recall your quizzes and tests. How is it going for you?

What do you have to get better at? What are you already good at?

 

Sentence Combining

1.We were riding bicycles on the Seawall. SIMPLE

 

ADVICE: You should always know what kind of sentence you’re writing. SIMPLE COMPOUND COMPLEX

If you don’t know what you want, if you don’t decide what kind of sentence you want, you will often write ½ English and ½ another language.

We are not beginners.

2. Our bicycles which were red and white were rented. COMPLEX- adj cl

Our rented bicyles were red and white were rented. REP

Our rented bicyles were red and white. SIMPLE

 

3-4. We wore helmets because helmets/they were required. COMPLEX- adv cl

We wore helmets as they were required. COMPLEX- adv cl

We wore helmets which were required. COMPLEX- adj cl

 

5. The helmets were for safety even though they were an ugly colour. COMPLEX-adv cl

The helmets were for safety, but they were an ugly colour. COMPOUND

The helmets were an ugly colour, but they were for safety. COMPOUND

The safety helmets were an ugly colour. SIMPLE

The ugly-coloured helmets were for safety. SIMPLE

 

6. The Seawall was busy and crowded. SIMPLE

The Seawall was busy, and it was crowded. COMPOUND

The Seawall was busy because it was crowded. COMPLEX- adv cl

The Seawaal was crowded, so it was busy. COMPOUND

 

7. People were walking and rollerblading. SIMPLE SVV

snowshoeing

cross-country skiing

snowboarding

 

8. We rode slowly, and I rode in the middle. COMPOUND

We rode slowly while I rode in the middle. COMPLEX- adv cl

I rode in the middle while we rode slowly. COMPLEX- adv cl

I rode in the middle and slowly. XXX not parallel prepostional phrase adverb

I rode carefully and slowly. parallel

 

parallelism - AAA and BBB   -same type of word N V ADJ

 

9. My brother rode in front, and our friend rode behind. COMPOUND SV SV

My brother rode in front of our friend who rode behind. COMPLEX-adj cl

My brother rode in front while our friend rode behind. COMPLEX- adv cl

 

10. We rode an hour without stopping, and (in the end) I was out of breath with sore legs. COMPOUND

I was out of breath, and my legs were sore because we rode an hour without stopping. COMPOUND COMPLEX

We rode an hour without stopping, so my legs were sore(,) and I was out of breath. COMPOUND

 

Good work. This kind of practice really helps. It is essential practice.

Practicing the basics.

 

 

Replacement test

Paragraph of at least 150 words.

What are next goals for learning English?