Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
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“Self-Assessment Reflection”- link to the PLOs
Pass in by the end of class today
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Verbs: Causative verbs
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Dialogue “Choosing a Phone Plan”
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Weekly vocab exercises “Multiple-Choice Synonyms
3”
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Teach grabbers- paragraphs
Test2-paragraph coming up
Causative Verbs
Causative verbs make other verbs
act. They cause actions to occur.
cause and effect-
VOCAB causation, cause- cause and effect, stimulus and
result
-something that makes something else happen
-chemistry – catalyst – chemical that causes another
chemical to react
Both of the previous sentences contained causative verbs.
“Causative verbs make other
verbs act. They cause actions to occur.”
The most frequently-used causative verbs are as follows:
help, assist, invite, require, motivate, encourage,
get, convince, persuade, hire, employ, allow, permit, force, tell, ask
Lower frequency words: inspire
Different style, different verb usage:
let make
Which of these causative do you
know already?
assistant-
A requirement is stronger than
a suggestion.
Can I get a coffee?
Can I get you to bring me a coffee? CAUSATIVE
GRAMMAR causative verb + infinitive
help person infinitive
You help your sister to do her homework.
I help my mother with her finances.
NOT CAUSATIVE
I help my mother INFINITIVE. I help my mother to set a budget.
I help my son to find his carrer path.
-invite
Jun invited me to her party.
NOT CAUSATIVE
Jun invited me to go/come to her party. CAUSATIVE
Shira invited me to meet her family.
Let’s choose the most useful to
start with:
help, assist, invite, require, motivate,
encourage, get, convince, persuade, hire, employ, allow, permit,
force, tell, ask
Lower frequency words: inspire
-encourage
I encourage my daughter to be
helpful.
I encourage my son to avoid
getting angry.
The teacher encourages her students to be brave.
The students encourage each other to not give up. They
support each other.
-allow
She does not allow her kids to
eat a lot of junk/fast food.
I don’t allow my children to
use me phone.
The teacher allows me to go
home early.
I don’t allow my son to play
video games on school nights.
-tell
She tells her friends to meet
her at the coffee shop.
-ask
She asked me to go to the gym
with her.
My boss asked me to work full-time.
-get- ask for a favour, strong,
not rude
He got his wife to pick up the
kids.
CONTINUE MONDAY
***Weekly vocab exercises “Multiple-Choice Synonyms 3”
1. useful
practical- antonym- theoretical, academic,
on-paper
in real life, on-paper-resume
She looks good on-paper. Let’s see how she
is in real life.
TEXTING- IRL- We have never met IRL.
down-to-earth- personality- not fancy, regular, casual, no
pretense, regular person
2. clarify(v)
clarification, clarity(n), clear(adj) clearly(adv)
obscure- rare, not well-known
She studied an obscure Persian poet named
ABCD.
vague- not precise, not clear
He listens to a lot of obscure bands.
underground(adj)- not official, secret, not
legal
I have a gig tonight at a cool underground
nightclub.
under the table- earn money without paying
tax
counterfeit- fake products, fake money
authentic, real
3. commitment,
dedication
4. rational-logical,
use your brain
emotional- use your heart, feeling
5. tentative-
temporary
Canada Post reached a tentative agreement
with their workers.
6. address(v)-
to talk about a problem
postpone(v)- delay, put off
We postponed the Xmas party until next week.
8.revise- re-again vise,vision- look
look at something again, take another look, review
9.valid I had a
valid reason for missing the test.
10. resolve(v)- fix, settle a problem, solve a problem
We addressed the issue and resolved the problem.
Some people avoid addressing problems.
11. adverse(adj)-negative
12.consistent- not conflicting steady?
13.dependent-reliant
Your children rely/depend on you.
14.ideal(adj)-perfect
15.justify- defend
16.
Quiz2
Write a compound sentence for each.
1. so volunteer
2. as
a result information
3. happily vegetarian
4. therefore shopping
5. then plan
6. in
addition swimming
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