EF45 Class 7

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 12:00

 

Today’s agenda- Butter Day

Butter- breed- Golden Doodle – half poodle, half golden retriever

His mother was a golden retriever. His father was a poodle.

-almost nine years old

-loves people, loves kids

 

service dogs- job with a job

-a seeing-eye dog

-emotional support dog

-therapy dogs at YVR

-sniffer dog- airport- drugs or explosives

-Hotel Vancouver- dogs at the front desk, reception

 

-loyal

-sensitive

 

Dogs lift one paw when they feel uncertain.

Dogs do a play bow when they want to play.

A golden retriever is a hunting dog. His job is to retrieve things.

retrieve(v)- bring back

He loves to play ‘fetch’.

fetch- to go get something

 

Dogs shake and shiver when they are nervous.

 

·      Begin simple sentences

practice

·      Review of paragraph work

·      Pronunciation work/Minimal Pairs

·      Test#1 – easy topic- paragraph of at least 150 ww (final 50m)

·      HW   Read/Review “Going to a Dental Specialist” next dialogue

 

Monday

·      Continue simple sentences

Prepare for Quiz#1 on Monday – simple sentences

Explain the structure of the quiz

Choose vocabulary to review for the quiz

 

Tuesday

·      Quiz#1-simple sentences

 

 

 

 

Three kinds of sentences:

1.    SIMPLE

2.    COMPOUND

3.    COMPLEX

 

Simple Sentence

A simple sentence       -a subject and a verb

-expresses a complete thought.

 

Different types of simple sentences:

SV – 1 subject + 1 verb

SSV- 2 subjects + 1 verb

SVV- 1 subject + 2 verbs

SSVV-2 subjects + 2 verbs

Imperative (command)- tell someone to do something

Interrogative (question)- ask someone a question

 

* SV – 1 subject + 1 verb

Your friend is beautiful/handsome/funny.

Sarah does her homework at night.

Your brother works in construction.

 

*REMEMBER:

Begin with a capital letter.

End with a period.

 

**Don’t write in all capital letters. The only capital letters should be the first letter of the first word in a sentence and the first letter of proper nouns.

YOUR BROTHER WORKS IN CONTRUCTION. XXX

Your brother works in construction.

We go on vacation. SV

‘we’ plural- more than one, two or a thousand

 

proper nouns- caps

names of cities, days, months, countries, languages, people’s names, first person pronoun “I”, companies, landmarks

Vancouver, Tehran, Beijing, Friday, Monday, Christmas, Hallowe’en, Chinese New Year, April, June, China, Iran, Canada, Canadian, Mexican, Persian, Yemen, Yemini, India, Indian,  English, French, Mandarin, Turkish, Sarah, Ken, Dave, Mohamed, I, Nike, Starbucks, Under Armor, the Steamclock, Gastown, West Side, the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China, the CN Tower, the Taj Mahal.

 

seasons No

I love spring.

We have Spring Break in March.

She hates winter.

We have Winter Break in winter.

 

* SSV- 2 subjects + 1 verb

My sister and I go on vacation.

Your book and your pen are on the desk.

The dog and the cat are playing with each other.

The old man and the old woman are talking with each other.

The parks and the trees in Vancouver are nice.

 

*SVV- 1 subject + 2 verbs

My husband cooks and washes the dishes everyday.

I clean the bathroom and do the laundry.

Mei drives her car to school and studies English five days a week.

Sarah likes swimming but hates biking.

 

 

*SSVV- 2 subjects + 2 verbs

My husband and I cook and wash the dishes everyday.

Michelle and Dave clean the bathroom and do the laundry.

 

 

SO FAR

Simple sentences:   SV   SSV   SVV SSVV

 

Examples of simple sentences:

You are a teacher and a mother. SV

Mohammad likes dogs but does not have a dog right now. SVV

Shira bought a new phone and sold her old one. SVV

Manuel is from Mexico but lives in Canada. SVV

 

** Thinking about SV helps to structure your sentence.

When I write for school or work, I always have SV in my mind.

SV = Subject Verb

 

PRACTICE:

Take put a piece of paper. Write some SV, SSV, SVV, SSVV simple sentences from your own imagination. Please work together if you wish. Try some imperative and interrogative questions.

 

YOUR EXAMPLES:

 She likes swimming and skating. SV gerunds- ‘ing’ nouns, look like verbs

Maria is good at NOUN. soccer/English/singing. singing-gerund

I will go to Richmond Centre.

I eat the (my) breakfast and go out.

 

***

I drink tea and eat the food. SIMPLE SVV

I drink tea, and I eat the food. COMPOUND SV, SOBA SV.

***

 

He likes eating and watching TV. SV eating/watching- gerund(noun)

gerund- noun wirh ‘ing’, looks like a verb

 

She likes napping. Napping is wonderful. gerunds

 

Me and my friend My friend and I drink coffee.

 

She is interested in music.

She is interested in playing with you.

PHRASE interested in

 

My best friend and I are learning dance every Monday. SSV

My best friend and I learn dance every Monday.

My best friend and I take a dance class every Monday.

 

Interrogative – ask a question

She is happy. Is she happy?

 

Imperative- command

(You) Close the door. Implied subject

(You) come in.  Come in, please.

imply- mean something but you don’t say it

 

 

 

 

 

Test#1

Use lined ruled paper

Write in pen

Doublespace

Full name and class in top right corner

Phones and devices put away.

 

Write a paragraph of at least 150 words:

What do you like to do for fun?