Today’s agenda
· Continue with some verb tenses- Very rich
discussion yesterday.
· Begin “I Confess”
Small
group discussion /colearning “Thought Questions”
Report out
to the class
· “Literary Terms”
· Daily pronunciation
· HW Read
“Dead Man’s Path”. Make notes about the “Thought Questions”
Friday
· Teach compound sentences-semicolons
·
Continue “I Confess”
·
Begin “Dead Man’s Path
Monday
·
Continue “I Confess” and “Dead Man’s Path
Tuesday
·
Test#3 – paragraph about both, comparing or
choose one to write about
Modals/Modals Auxiliaries
One-work modals
can + infinitive without‘’to’
can + to run
I/She/He/You/Sarah can run. the verb does not change
I run. agr subject
verb agreement
He runs.
will +infinitive – ‘to’
will to go
He will go. She will go. We all will go.
** You can say almost anything you need to say with one-work
modals.
Two-word modals
have to + to eat
You have to eat your vegetables.
He has to eat a low-salt diet.
ought to
We ought to to take the kids to the
park and leave them there.
ought to -modal
to take- infinitive
Three-word modals
am going to + to make dinner
I am going to make dinner tonight.
She is going to make dinner tonight.
We are going to make dinner tonight.
be supposed to
I was supposed to receive/get/hear a text from my mom this morning.
I didn’t get the text. It was supposed to arrive by 10 o’clock.
She is expecting an Amazon delivery. It is supposed to be
here by tonight.
She hasn’t heard from her sister yet. Her sister hasn’t
replied/responded to her message/email/text/call/letter.
MODAL
modal + infinitive without ‘to’
TRICKY- questions
Can we to go to the movies tonight?
WEAKER ADVICE OR SUGGESTIONS
could
might
should / ought to
be supposed to
had better You had
better get to bed early tonight if you’re so tired.
You better get to bed early tonight. CASUAL TALKING
must- have to The doctor said that I have to to
stop drinking coffee. gerund
have got to
STRONGEST
He has to stop drinking coffee. gerund
He has to stop to drink coffee. XXX infinitive
She has to stop missing classes.
has to to
stop arguing with his sister.
have to – should, must
You must stop smoking. You can stop drinking coffee.
You must stop NOUN.
We had to stop talking for a few minutes. We has to
stop our class. NOUNS
I had to stop working in my garden because my back and
knees were sore.
Imperative Stop drinking coffee!
You must stop
drinking coffee!
These are avenues to explore. You can look some of this up yourself.
We can talk more about it later.
Module “I
Confess”
Author-
Wei Wenjuan
Important
to separate the writer and the story.
The
authorial voice in not necessarily the narrative voice.
The
narrator is a character that the author/writer created.
Separate
the author and the first-person narrator “I”
‘article’ a newspaper article, a magazine article, short
piece of non-fiction, reported speech
‘short story’
– fiction, ‘in the text’ ‘in the story’ ‘in the article’
Read aloud
VOCAB
-“the boy
who monitored discipline”
class
leader, ‘class prefect’ - British vocab
a student
who has authority over the other students
IDIOM “the
teacher’s pet” teacher’s helper, favourite student
watching
the other kids
has power
-a rat
“Kai ratted his sister out.” – tell on another person,
IDIOM “a
tattletale”
My little
brother is a tattletale.
EXAMPLE OF
OVERHEATED LANGUAGE, too strong, overreaction, dramatic
“nonsense”
“severe
damage”
“great
faith”
“drawn on
all my reserves of strength”
“vowed to
myself”
“set
myself strict standards”
Possible translation
from Chinese, reflect the culture and setting of the story, OR the writer is
showing Mr. Wei’s personality
“red flag
of citation” – reward for a class doing well, competitive, encourage students
and teachers
#1 in
grade get red flag, interclass competition
SETTING-
China, Taiwan, 60s and 70s, maybe now
dedicated
teacher-
incident-
something that happens that is negative, conflict
accident-
someone gets hurt
IDIOM by
accident – not planned I met him by
accident.
IDIOM run
into- meet without planning
How nice
to run into you.
extra
girlfriend
ex-girlfriend
“roared
fiercely” – like a wild animal, angry, aggressive
“harsh
voice”- seems suprised at his own reaction, maybe not experienced dealing with student
problems
“chastise”
– criticize, talk to harshl
IDIOM “tear
a strip of skin off somebody”
“give
someone a tongue-lashing”
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