Good morning,
everyone.
Today’s
agenda
·
Collect
Quiz#1 RWs rewrites
·
Continue
overview of sentences
-simple,
compound, and complex sentences (several weeks)
·
“Top
100 Most Used Verbs in American English”
·
HW Finihs going over the 100 verbs. We will go
over them tomorrow.
Tuesday
·
Go
over “Top 100 Most Used Verbs in American English”
·
Begin
simple sentences
Practice
with vocab
Explain
the structure of quizzes
·
Pronunciation
of the Day- daily pronunciation work- minimal pairs and tongue twisters
Wednesday
·
Continue
simple sentences
Practice
with vocab
Prepare
for Quiz #2
·
Thursday
·
Quiz#2
housework- cooking, cleaning, laundry,
dishwashing, sweeping the floor with a broom (dry- no water), mopping the floor
with a mop (soap and water), vacuuming the floor (electric machine)
chores- small jobs arounf the house,
usually done by kids
Her son’s chores are to make his bed,
take out the trash, and put the dishes away in the cupboard/ kitchen cabinet.
cupboard – storage in your kitchen,
with a door
You keep your clothes in a closet.
A teacher/office worker keeps paper
and books in a cabinet.
The books are on the bookshelf.
You keep utensils in your
utensils- forks, knives, spoons,
chopsticks, ladles, spatula,
knife sharpener, cheese grater,
zester, skimmer, scissors
The scisors are sharp. plural- 2
Her new glasses look cool.
I dropped a fork.
She dropped all of the forks on the floor.
She zested some lemon peel into the
cake batter.
He made pancake batter.
batter- liquid of flour, sugar,
butter, vanilla, baking powder or soda, salt
batter
butter
bitter- a sharp taste like coffee
better
PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE- FUN
The butter in the batter is bitter.
You better get new butter for the batter.
sour- like a lemon
acidic – like vinegar
sweet- like sugar
salty- like salt
spicy- like chili, hot pepper
Some peanuts are salty. Some are sweet.
umami- like meat
no taste, no flavour- bland
(adjective)
The food was bland. You can add salt
and pepper, and maybe some spice.
Salt is not good for your blood
pressure.
You turnover/flip an egg with a spatula.
She made some bread. She made the
dough.
dough- flour, water, salt, yeast?,
butter?, milk?
Japanese people like milky bread.
Batter is runny, thin liquid.
Dough is drier, thick, and more solid.
You can use dry yeast.
sourdough-
You mix flour, water, salt and yeast
in a bowl to make a dough.
Then you knead the bread for ten minutes.
knead / need – same pronunciation
After that, you let the dough rise for
about an hour.
You form the dough into loaves. loaf/loaves
You can cut a the top with a knife.
Preheat the oven.
Then you bake the bread in the oven.
bake
fry
roast
broil -roast at a very high heat
boil
grill
barbecue
steam
You can blanch vegetables.
You can poach an egg.
You can find a recipe.
Some people like a runny yolk. the
yellow part of the egg
Most people do not like runny egg
white.
Eggs can be fried over easy.
Eggs can be fried sunny side up.
Eggs can be scrambled.
Eggs can be boiled.
You can make cheese and mushroom omelettes.
You can order from room service in a
hotel.
You will burn/scald yourself with steam
if you are not careful.
scald- burn with hot water
burn – with flame, hot metal
He got a big blister on his hand when
he scalded himself.
You mop the floor. You squeeze the
water out of the mop. You wring the mop out.
You can wring out a wet shirt.
homework- studying, reading for
school, academic
You can get a doggy bag from a
restaurant.
Can I get a doggy bag? I would like to
take this home. Can I have a container?
You can have leftovers.
You can freeze leftovers.
Prepping food for the week.
prep-prepare
REVIEW-
1.
SIMPLE SV SSV
SVV SSVV Imperative(command) Interrogative(question)
2.
COMPOUND , FANBOYS , SOBA- much more useful
; semicolon
; therefore,
TRANSITIONAL TERMS
3. COMPLEX SENTENCES- adverb
clauses, noun clauses, adjective clauses
a. adverb clauses – because if
when unless until after before although, etc
We will do about 20-30.
“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
A. brain- think, believe, know, guess,
understand, imagine, remember, etc.
tongue- say, whisper, state, yell,
remind, claim, argue, etc.
B. that
why how
Take a verb from the A group and
join it with a word form the B group to make a noun clause.
A think
B that
“Mohammed thinks that he
should call his brother.”
A believe
B that
“The little girl believes that
there is a monster in her closet.”
“Maria said that we need
more printer paper.”
A. tell B.why
“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 – describe
noun, use ‘who that which’
who-people
that-things, animals
which- special things, unique
things
“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. Ready to go?
*** “Top
100 Most Used Verbs In American English” Canadian probably very similar
Look
throught the list.
-I know
this word
-I think
I know this word
-I need to learn this word.
***Pronunciation of the Day***
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