WI567 Class 28

 

short days- dark

Dec. 21- Winter Solstice- the shortest day of the year, the longest night- days start getting longer

 

People feel blue.

 

Exercises will give you endorphins.

endorphin- hormone- feel good

 

the blues- sad feeling

blues music

 

Pink-shirt Day- anti-bullying

 

pink ribbon – cancer, women

November- Movember- men grow a moustache and raise money for cancer

 

You can sell or donate your long hair for wigs. – not dyed, certain length (30cm?)

 

 

-laughing club- India, laughing yoga

 

Babies laughing- antidote to the blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=124&v=cTIvHN-HXmE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fsca_esv%3D31fe99a6d4a2597d%26rlz%3D1C1GCEA_enCA1006CA1006%26sxsrf%3DADLYWILE8F5-Xq0099xo-V4RaVO_SQJo0g%3A17346&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY

 

 

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Continue Process Analysis Paragraphs

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

·      Preposition exercises

·      Vocabulary activities pp7-8, from last Friday

·      Continue to talk about verb tenses

 

Friday

·      Wrap up work so far

·      Test#3- process paragraph (last hour)

 

You will have an opportunity to make up a quiz and/or test on the secod last day of the course.

 

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

Write a sentence with a noun clause for each.

1.    believe                  student

2.    think                     advice

advice- uncountable noun

I think that his advices advice was very helpful.

My sister gave me some advice.

My sister gave me some pieces of advice.

 

3.    remember           computer

I remember how to turn on a computer.

turn on / turn off a light

Chinese- open a  light, close a light

open a door/window

Open your eyes!

Open your mind/heart.

 

I remembered that you gave me a computer.

 

4.    understand          problem

We understand what kind of problem we are involving in. vf

We understand what kind of problem we are involved in.

I am involved in this project. I am part of it.

IDIOM She is involved with Joe. They are dating.

PHRASAL VERB involved with- romantic relationship

He is involved in human rights groups. joined the group, active in the group

 

Some students are active learners. Some students are passive learners.

Some students are active learners while some students are passive learners.

 

SAYING You get out what you put in.

You reap what you sow.

RELIGIOUS SAYING God helps those who help themselves.

Action brings abundance.

 

5.    say                         magazine

He said, “Put the magazine away on the bookshelf.” direct speech

He said to put the magazine away on the bookshelf. indirect speech

My sister told me, “Call your friend, Dave.”

My sister told me, “Call your friend, Dave.”

My sister told me to call my friend, Dave.

He said, “Who took the magazine?”

He asked who took the magazine. N CL

 

6.    feel                        meeting

After the meeting, I felt like I lost something.

During the meeting, I felt like/that I couldn’t follow what they were saying.

VOCAB follow- understand

PHRASAL VERB follow up- get in toucha after a meeting, update

She will follow up with her boss about her raise.

a follow up question – a second questions related to the first

 

He didn’t follow up with you about the meeting.

 

I don’t quite follow you. I don’t understand completely.

I don’t quite agree.

She doesn’t know what she will do for New Years. no plan

She doesn’t quite know what she will do for New Years. half a plan, not sure yet

 

 

 

REVIEW of ways to do grabbers/hooks:

1.    funnel – wide to narrow

2.    anecdote- short personal story

3.    history-

4.    fact/statistic- #, %, fractions, research

5.    question EASIEST- answer with the TS

6.    quotation- “ “

7.    idiom/saying-

 

Tomorrow- process paragraph

 

Practice topic: How to Be a Top English Learner

 

Finished product:

 

Grabber

TS

SSs

CS

(At least 150+ww) Goldilocks Zone- 150-200/250ww

 

MY PROCESS:

 

PREWRITING- make a plan

1.    Read the question- every word. Make sure you get it.

2.    Generate ideas- brainstorm, mindmap- key words, vocab bank

Write it down- more vocab will bubble up

3.    Organize- TIME, SPACE, IMPORTANCE

 

WRITING

4.Write a rough draft

5.Proofread and edit

6.