Today’s
agenda-
· Collect heritage poems
· Finish “International Women’s Day”
· Active and passive voice
· Begin sentence combining
· Poem presentations
· HW Read “Roses
Sing on New Snow” Prepare Thought Questions
Tuesday
·
Begin “Roses
Sing on New Snow”
· Poem presentations
Wednesday
·
Continue “Roses
Sing on New Snow”
Thursday/Friday
·
Midterm recommendations
** Two-week Spring Break**
The week we come back from Spring Break- upcoming test on “Roses
Sing on New Snow” with “ “
Homework:
Write a poem about your own heritage/culture. You can follow
in this style.
Choose 5-6 aspects of your heritage related to
dress/clothing.
Let’s open your writing of your poem to other topics.
Write a nice poem that reflects your heritage.
Finish it by Monday.
This will be worth a few bonus points.
If you volunteer to come up to the front of the class and
recite/read it aloud for us, you will get a couple more bonus points.
I’ll collect them up on Monday at the beginning of the
class.
**
Today is the first day of Ramadan
Muslim – 29 or 30 of fasting
lunar calendar- based on the phases of moon, changes every year
fasting(n) fast(v)- no eating or drinking, not even water
No food or water between sunrise and sunset.
Today sunrise- 6:3?am
sunset 7:12pm
People will get up early to eat and then pray.
People will eat after sunset.
ablutions- washing hands, face, and feet
Some medical professional say that fasting is good for your
health.
This takes dedication, inner-strength, fortitude, determination,
self-control, etc.
past participles – verb form
present past past participle
fix fixed fixed
go went gone
put put put
cut cut cut
wear wore worn
read read read
teach taught taught
“Sarah had taught her sister, Marie, how to swim.” ACTIVE VOICE
“Marie was taught to swim by Sarah.” PASSIVE VOICE
had taught- past perfect, not often used
SUBSITUTE simple past- taught
speak spoke spoken
swim swam swum
throw threw thrown
buy bought bought
“I bought some
cookies for my kids” ACTIVE VOICE
“The cookies were bought
by me for my kids.” PASSIVE VOICE
cook cooked cooked
sink sank sunk
watch watched watched
think thought thought
live lived lived
Useful for present perfect: from the past until now
“Maria has lived in Vancouver since last October.” SIMPLE
“Maria has lived in Vancouver since she came to Canada
last October.” COMPLEX- adverb clause
OTHER TOPIC: drown He
was drowning in the ocean, so that lifegaurd saved him. The lifegaurd threw the
lifesaver.
think- present prefect
has thought
Ms. Zhou has thought a lot about moving to Alberta.
Two types of voices of English
Active voice: Subject is doing the verb
Most sentences in English are based on the subject doing the verb. For example, in the sentence Michelle ate the cookie,
Michelle is the
subject, and she is doing the verb ate. When the subject does the verb, this is
called active voice
I read a book.
You wrote a paragraph.
He rode a horse.
This is the simplest, most direct pattern for English
sentences.
Passive voice:
It is also
possible to write in passive voice. This
happens when the subject of a sentence does not do the verb. For example, in the sentence
The cookie was eaten by Michelle.
passive
the cookie did nothing. Michelle
did the eating.
Look at
the difference:
Michelle ate
the cookie. ACTIVE VOICE
The cookie
was eaten by Michelle. PASSIVE VOICE
Here are some more sentences, expressed first in active
voice, then in passive:
I read a book. The book was read by me.
You wrote a paragraph.
The paragraph was written by you.
He rode a horse.
The horse was ridden by him.
Active: We read
the books.
Passive: The books
were read by us.
Active: The mother
carried her child.
Passive: The child
was carried by his mother.
-same meanings, different ways
to say it
Passive voice verbs use an auxiliary verb plus the past participle,
as we discussed earlier today. The
structure of passive voice forces us to think backwards because is places the
action in a sentence (the verb) ahead of the actor. Passive voice is therefore indirect and
sounds weak. Passive voice also needs
more words, so it is more complicated than active voice.
Stick with active voice whenever possible. Your sentences will be stronger and clearer.
Exercise #1
Change active voice to passive voice in the following
sentences.
1.
May drank a
glass of milk. ACTIVE VOICE
The glass of milk was drunk by May.
drunk(v) (adj)
Your uncle was drunk at the wedding and made a fool of himself.
2.
Junko cleaned
the kitchen.
3.
Mark baked these
cookies.
4.
I am teaching you about English.
You were taught (about)
English by Dan on Friday.
You were being taught English
by Dan on Friday.
Your English class was being taught by me.
Your English class was taught by Sarah.
Today, you are being taught
about passive and active voice.
5.
He is riding
a horse.
The horse was ridden by him.
The horse was being ridden by him.
The movie star looked like he was riding the horse, but
the horse was actually bring ridden by a stunt double.
6.
throw
The garbage was thrown out by John.
UNCERTAIN WHO DID THE ACTION A rock was thrown at my window last night. Who did
it? We don’t know.
My car was scratched. Her laptop was stolen from
Starbucks.
The dead body was found in the park.
7.
buy
These gloves were bought for Michelle, but they might fit
you.
8.
wear
The warm red coat was worn by my sister.
The bridal veil was worn by the blushing bride.
shy bride- blushing bride
9.
bring
These sweets were brought by him.
10.
put
The little girl was put in the
high-level class.
Reading aloud
1.
Stand up.
2.
Speak a little bit louder than usual.
3.
Speak a bit more slowly than usual.
4.
Face your audience.
5.
If you’re brave, make some eye contact.
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