WI567 Class 26

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Quiz4- noun clauses

·      Start to talk about verb tenses

·      Vocabulary activities pp7-8, from last Friday

 

Wednesday

·      Midterm recommendations one-on-one meetings- half the class

·      Continue to talk about verb tenses

·      Talk about grabbers, hooks for paragraphs and essays

·      Begin Process Analysis Paragraphs

 

Thursday

·      Midterm recommendations one-on-one meetings- other half of the class

·      IDEALLY Test#3- process paragraph

 

Friday

Not 100% settled- SHEC sing-along – Christmas carols

Period 2, Room 202- Everybody is welcome. People can sing if they want to. We will have lyric sheets to sing from.

 

Coming up after Xmas Break/Winter Break!

·      Adjective clauses

·      Sentence combining

·      Phrasal verbs

·      Modals/Modal Auxiliairies

·      Persuasive paragraphs

·      Essays – five-paragraph model

·      Essay types          -compare/contrast

-persuasive

-literary?

 

 

 

 

Quiz4

Phones away.

Write a sentence with a noun clause for each.

Pass in by 12:30.

1.    believe                  student

2.    think                     advice

3.    remember           computer

4.    understand          problem

5.    say                         magazine

Jun said that this month’s Vogue magazine has some beautiful models.

It is hard to say when the magazine will go on sale.

6.    feel                        meeting

 

 

 

IDIOM She crashed after she got home. I just want to crash.

 

I say that he was late yesterday.

I say that   EXPRESSES AN OPINION

 

I said that SPEAK, TALK

IDIOM You can have your say. You have a say. She doesn’t have a say in this.

 

SLANG None of your bee’s wax.  None of your business. LITTLE BIT RUDE

 

 

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Overview of the 12 verb tenses in English:

1.    SIMPLE PRESENT-habitual action,

everyday, always, usually, normally, generally, frequently, often. sometimes, occasionally, rarely, seldom, never

-truth, fact

#1 error subject verb agreement She go XXX She goes

2.    SIMPLE PAST- one event finished in the past

#1 error – She was go  XXX   He was talk

3.    SIMPLE FUTURE

Not 100%, but usually works

be going to- already made a plan

will- decide at the moment

*NOTE: I am going to shopping tomorrow. gerund – to

I am going to buy a new hat.

4.    PRESENT PROGRESSIVE/CONTINUOUS ‘ing’

-now   She is listening to a podcast right now.

-these days, currently   He is working at the airport.

*sounds temporary

She works in the market.

She is working in the market.

I live in Canada.   I am living in Canada.

 

5.    PAST PROGRESSIVE – ‘ing’ in the past, finished

She was reading a book about self-improvement, and the power went out.

-         interruption

She read a book about self-improvement last night. SIMPLE PAST- no interruption

I was making coffee Saturday morning when the lights went out due to the windstorm.

I changed my deadbolt yesterday.

I was cleaning my locker, and I found a $20 bill.

I was driving home, and the police pulled me over for speeding.

She was walking down the street, and a fire engine went screaming past her. The siren was loud.

Schools have bell or buzzers.

Alarm- Amber alert

 

 

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Process Writing- teaching, how to do something, explaining how something works

-recipe, how to cook a dish

-how to use technology

-how to assemble something, e.g. IKEA through diagrams

-how to use a machine

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when somebody sneeezes

Bless you!

Gesundheit!