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Today’s agenda
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Talk about online sentence tutorial
Late November- late January
Scan the QR code on posters around the
school or check the blog for the link.
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Return essay
Go over
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Continue sentence combining exercises
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Wrap-up, review
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Optional replacement test (final hour)
Friday - Final day
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No instruction
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Final reports, final marks, comments
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One-on-one meetings
Essay
Write an organized five-paragraph essay of 300-350 words on
ONE of the following topics.
CHOOSE ONE:
1.
What would you do if you won $10 million lottery?
2.
What are the secrets of a happy life?
3.
Bicycles as an alternative means of
transportation
FREE ADVICE: Organize
your ideas before you write.
Be specific.
Write good
sentences.
Paper orientation
5 paragraphs
Doublespace
Indent
Margins
Organization-
evidence of prewriting, planning and organization
Introductory
paragraph
Grabber
Clear thesis
statement
Preview of three
points
3 Body paragraphs
Clear topic sentence
Organized
supporting points
Concluding
paragraph
Restatement of thesis
statement
Restatement of 3
points
Clincher
Quality of
sentences
Each sentence simple,
compound, or complex
You have to know what kind of
sentence you are writing.
You have to decide: SIMPLE
COMPOUND COMPLEX
If you don’t decide, you will
wind up wiitng a sentence that is ½ English and ½ your mother language.
e.g. Exists many
people in the world.
Many nice cookies
she baked.
I like to go for
walks to release my pressure to relax myself.
Verb tense and form
Punctuation
The basics : periods .
commas , semicolons ;
? : -
SIMPLE COMPOUND
COMPLEX
Every sentence should be one
of these types.
Sentence combining-
coordination- ‘co’- together, equal – compound sentence
SV, SOBA SV.
SV; SV.
SV; TRANS, SV.
subordination- ‘sub’
under- complex sentences
main clause + subordinate clause- adv cl, adj cl, n cl
“Washing the Car”
1.
Janet woke up on Saturday. KERNEL
She woke up early.
Decide: simple compound complex?
Janet woke up early on Saturday. SIMPLE
2.
She prepared to wash the car.
quickly
with excitement
new
her mother’s
What kind of sentence do we want?
With excitement, she quickly prepared with excitement
to wash her mother’s new car with excitement.
She quickly and excitedly prepared to wash her mother’s new car.
SIMPLE
She quickly prepared with excitement to wash her
mother’s new car.
OPTION the new car which was her mother’s
She was excited as/when she quickly prepared to wash her
mother’s new car. NATURAL
I was excited when I visited the museum/ went to see Taylor Swift.
How do English speakers talk? How do they write?
3.
Carefully, her mother carefully drove
the car carefully out of the garage carefully. choose one
4.
They gathered the supplies that were for cleaning
outside. COMPLEX- adj cl
They gathered the cleaning supplies outside.
SIMPLE
5.
They unwound the hose, and then gently Janet
gently sprayed the car gently.
6.
They washed the car together with sponges that
were soft.
with soft sponges.
Together, they washed the car.
We can fix the problem together.
Together, we can fix the problem.
We can fix it.- every knows that ‘it’
means
7.
Janet sprayed the car to rinse it afterwards.
8.
She dried and polished it thoroughly.
9.
They had a shiny car in the driveway in an hour.
In an hour, they had a shiny car in the
driveway.
They had a car which was shiny in
the driveway in an hour.
SIMPLE COMPOUND COMPLEX
Replacement Test:
What are your next plans for improving your English.
Replacement Quiz
Write an appropriate sentence for each:
SIMPLE SENTENCE
1. job
COMPOUND SENTENCES
2. tomorrow but
3. restaurant however
COMPLEX SENTENCES
4. exercise that
5. argue when
6. remember how
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