WI567 Class 12

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Paragraph work- read aloud, check paragraphs from homework

·      Parallelism

·      Continue with sentence types- COMPLEX- ADVERB CLAUSES

 

Thursday

·      Parallelism

·      Continue with sentence types- COMPLEX- ADVERB CLAUSES

·      End of class (last 45m)

Test#1- Write a paragraph of at least 150 words (6-10 sentences) on the following topic.

Everyday topic

 

Friday

·      Continue with sentence types- COMPLEX- ADVERB CLAUSES

·      Vocab exercises

 

 

 

Paragraphs

 

Topic sentence

Supporting sentences

Concluding sentence

 

Goldilocks zone- at least 150 words to 250 max

*If your ideas run to over a couple hundred words, an essay might be more appropriate.

 

one main idea- limited in scope

pick a topic that you can explore in a just a paragraph

# of sentences- 150-250ww 7-12 sentences approx.

 

Sentences – Every sentence has to be a real English sentence:

SIMPLE, COMPOUND, COMPLEX (start today)

 

Indent the first word of the first sentence of a paragraph – 5 spaces, TAB key

 

Write inside the margins (red lines)

 

Can you touch type?

 

ergonomic keyboard

ergonomic- fits your body

 

hunt and peck typing

 

You learned on a typewriter.

 

Free online typing-instruction website: https://www.typing.com/

 

Ramadan

 

TS      Ramadan is a once-a-year religious task/obligation/requirement/custom/ritual/ tradition/observance/activity/fast for all observing healthy adult Muslims.

 

SUPPORTING SENTENCES

Point#1 -time of year,duration

subpoint

Point#2-fast, daily length

subpoint

Point#3 fasting food, drink, etc

subpoint-

Point#4 -polite behaviour, not easy, hungry,

subpoint

CS

REPHRASE/RESTATE synonyms

In conclusion,

In a word,

In summary,

To sum up, for many religious Muslim people, Ramadan is a very important annual religious requirement.

 

You can decide how much detail to put in.

 

 

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anyone, anything, anybody

someone, something, somebody

everyone, everything, everybody

noone, nothing, nobody

 

singular

 

Everybody is/are here.

We are here. group

Everybody is here. individual

 

Nothing is working.

 

He has a new phone.

We have new phones.

Everybody has a new phone.

 

Something is making a noise.

Someone is at the door.

 

Collective nouns- family, group, class, team, committee

My family likes to watch movies.

My parents like to watch movies.

This class is very high level.

The students are very high level.

The volleyball team was happy. The players were celebrating.

 

All of the people want to go to the celebrations.

The all of people

All people – everybody on the Earth

 

Most students – on the Earth

Most of the students- ‘the’ limited scope, more defined

 

One (of the people) want/wants to go.

 

Two (of the people) want/wants to go.

 

You can do two pages of practice exercises or one quiz.

 

No ones No one’s coming to the party.

 

The police are coming to my house.

The student is working.

 

The police officer said that he would call me.

 

 

 

 

 

Everybody’s happy. contraction

Everybody is happy.

Everybody’s homework is ok. possession

 

‘ apostrophe-      1. show ownership, possession

                               2. contraction , he is – he’s

 

Everyone’s welcome.

 

COMPOUND SENTENCE

There is a project due next week; so, I have to make the website. XXX

FIX

1.    , SOBA

There is a project due next week, so I have to make the website.

2.    ; TRANS,

 There is a project due next week; therefore/for this reason/consequently/as a result/thus, I have to make the website.

 

3.    There is a project due next week. Therefore, I have to make the website. 2 simple sentences

4.    MORE UNUSUAL, NOT AS COMMON

There is a project due next week; I have to make the website.

 

Imperative- command

Open the door.

Listen to your mother.

 

Excellent grammar book –

Understanding and Using English Grammar, Betty Azar

 

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