WI567 Class 32

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      leftover work      -prepositions, Ex7

·      Continue adjective clauses- final type of clause

·      Continue with new paragraph type- Opinion/Persuasive writing

Practice

·      Continue to talk about verb tenses

 

Thursday

·      Continue adjective clauses-

·      Continue with new paragraph type- Opinion/Persuasive writing

Practice

 

Friday

·      Test4 – Paragraph - opinion/persuasive writing

·      “Self=Assessment Reflection” Week 7

·      Continue adjective clauses-

 

Coming up in the final two weeks

·      Sentence combining

·      Phrasal verbs

·      Modals/Modal Auxiliairies

·      Essays – five-paragraph model

·      Essay types        compare/contrast

persuasive

literary?

 

 

 

 

Prepositions, Ex7

Tell me about the ipad Gen10.

I left my laptop at the bus stop.

Let’s meet at the Skytrain station.

Let’s meet at the bus depot.

He got off at the terminal station. final stop

His illness is terminal. He is going to die.

JOKE Don’t buy any green bananas.

I left my laptop on the couch.

I lost my phone in the couch. It fell in the gap between the cushions.

He sat on the sofa. They sat in the loveseat.

The kid sat in his beanbag chair.

Dad likes to sit in his LazyBoy.

He likes to sit in his recliner.

The audience cheered when Micheal Jackson appeared on stage.

I’m not against what you are saying.

He is not against the legalization of marijuana.

He is standing next to the tree. He is standing behind the tree. He is standing in front of the tree.

He is standing on the chair.

The little kid is hiding in the tree.

The dog is sitting between the trees. 2

The dog is sitting among the sheep. 3+

IDIOM barking up the wrong tree- asking the wrong person, looking in the wrong place

The dog is barking up the wrong tree.

You are barking up the wrong tree.

 

IDIOM barking at someone

Stop barking at the kids.

 

She will go to bed/work/school/church. no ‘the’

 

Despite the rain, the game was not cancelled.

In spite of the rain, the game was not cancelled.

She forced herself to speak despite her shyness.

She forced herself to speak in spite of her reticence.

 

QUESTION Why ‘the’

What bus do I take to get to (the) school?

What bus do I take to get to the library?

 

Go to school!

Go to the library!

 

I am in the car.

He is on the bus/train/Skytrain/plane/ferry/subway.

She is in a taxi/Uber/Lyft.

 

We are in the mall. We are in the classroom.

An apple is in the tree.

 

Her earrings are in her ears. Her earbuds are in. He has a stud in his nose.

 

cross(v)/across(prep)

He crossed the street. She walked across the street.

He crossed himself.

She walked throught a forest.

Don’t cross me!

She is cross with her son. (adj)- angry

I am cross right now. I am angry.

 

He interrupted her. He talked over her.

 

She drove to the border crossing. Mei crossed the border into the US.

 

Cross out your mistake. I are am a student.  strikethrough

It is bad luck when a black cat crosses your path.

 

Good Luck restaurant is right across the street from SHEC.

The Buy Low is across the street from SHEC.

Cake Cafe is kitty corner to SHEC.

 

He blushed when I invited him to go out on a date with me.

He blushed when I invited him to go out with me on a date.

 

He blushed beet red. He felt embarassed. He is a shy and timid.

 

flushed- turn red due to health problem, room is too hot, you’re sick

He gets flush when he drinks.

I feel flush. You look flush.

You look pale. You look drawn. tired, exhausted, lack of energy

 

 

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Process writing – before Xmas

teaching, how-to, step by step

 

How to Be a Top English Learner

meaning?

writing, reading, listening, speaking

 

life skills- life in English

-defend/make time for English in daily life

-make friends, daily communication- club, sports team, dance, classes, meetup, webchat, NOT AI, *not an English class, but a class in English

 

-TV, radio, podcast- subtitles in English

 

-reading novels, magazines on paper- reading for pleasure, a topic that you are interested in, not too hard, not too easy, meet new vocab

 

**You have to enjoy it.**

 

Steve Kaufman polyglot

 

 

PROCESS

Prewriting

1.Read the question. Figure out the question.

2.Generate ideas/key words

3.Organize

Writing

4.Write the rough copy

5.Proofread and edit

6.Submit the legible copy