Thursday, 2 November 2023

EF67 Class 40 sentence combining wrap-up

 

EF67

 

Today’s agenda

·      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.

·      Return essay

Go over

·      Continue sentence combining exercises

·      Wrap-up, review

·      Optional replacement test (final hour)

 

Friday - Final day

·      No instruction

·      Final reports, final marks, comments

·      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.

Format

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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