Good afternoon.
Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
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Midterm recommendations – if you need one
Registration starts Wednesday, March 12.
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Phrasal Verbs exercises
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Continue complex sentences- adverb clauses
Quiz on adverb clauses Wednesday
Tuesday
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Advocacy letter- Amnesty letter
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Continue complex sentences- adverb clauses
Quiz on adverb clauses tomorrow
Wednesday
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Quiz3 – adverb clauses
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Types of paragraphs
– all idiomatic, few grammar rules
-very challenging
-secret to learning prepositions is daily
authentic usage
-talking and listening to English speakers
-listening to radio or news -watching movies -listening to podcasts (change the speed)
- listen to talk shows
podcasts -cell phone software- free apps- e.g.
Overcast
“Real Life English”
“TED Talks” technology, education, design
music podcast
ghost stories podcast
**Ask somebody how to get podcasts on your
phone.
#1- hanging out with friends who are native
speakers
Best way to learn English– get an English
boyfriend or girlfriend for a year, maybe just good friend
*Phrasal Verbs- the heart of English
Phrasal verbs are two or three-word verbs
usually consisting of a verb plus a preposition (or two).
verb + preposition – one unit, one thing, one
new idea e.g. “talk to”
talk to – He talked to his sister on
the phone last Tuesday.
Phrasal verbs are the heart of English. The
more you know phrasal verbs, the more natural your spoken and written English
will sound.
Adding a preposition to a verb can completely change
the meaning of the verb.
-talk to- more like a monologue
-talk with -
more like a conversation, back and forth, dialogue
-talk about
He talked about her behind her back. not to
her face, gossip
-talk over He
talked over his wife while she was explaining what happened.
-talk under – whispering, talking very quietly
while someone else is
talking
While the teacher was talking, a few students
were talking under him about the lesson.
-talk over
For example, “speak to” ‘speak with’ and
“speak for” have very different meanings.
-speak for-
“Don’t speak for me. I can speak for myself.”
“She will have to speak for herself.”
I spoke to/with my colleague about the
project.
I spoke for my son at the doctor’s office.
So too do “look up”, “look up to” and “look
down on”. The meanings of phrasal verbs
are idiomatic, which means their meaning is in the culture not in the
dictionary.
“look up to” respect She really looks up to
her grandmother.
“Don’t look down on me about my English.”
“Don’t look down on anyone because they have
an accent. That means they know at least two languages. How about you?”
Examples with one verb: look (v)
-look + prep
-look at
-look for
-look after
-look up
-look up to – respect somebody, admire Scott really looks up to his math teacher, Ms
Chen.
-look down on – think poorly of someone, do
not respect them My mother usually
looked down on my friends.
-look forward to – anticipate, waiting with a
good feeling, being filled with expectation (positive) I look forward to seeing you.
She is not looking forward to the math test.
- common verb “talk”
-talk to
-talk with
-talk over
She always talks over me. I don’t like being interrupted all the time. It
is disrespectful.
Sorry for talking over you.
-talk for/speak for
-talk about- discuss, gossip,
tattle(v)- cannot keep a secret
tattletale(a person who rats you out), a bigmouth
IDIOM rat you out- tells on you
He is a motormouth.
-talk out –
discuss something fully, especially to resolve a conflict between two
people The husband and wife had to sit
down and talk out their differences.
phrasal verb
– verb + preposition
*50 phrasal verbs
https://blog.lingoda.com/en/top-50-phrasal-verbs-in-english/
check
in on- I’m just checking in on you, making sure you’re ok.
*200 phrasal verbs
http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/phrasal-verbs-list.htm
*Several hundred phrasal verbs
https://www.learn-english-today.com/phrasal-verbs/phrasal-verb-list.html
*500 phrasal verbs
https://www.espressoenglish.net/learn-500-phrasal-verbs-the-most-natural-way/
*500 phrasal
verbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMBamiDyRgo
One way to approach these would be to look at an overview of them.
See how many you know already.
Make a plan to learn a certain number a day/week.
Pick one or two day to learn and try. You have to use them to
remember them.
It’s all about building vocabulary. It’s painful and slow.
However, you will make progress.
You have to have some courage to talk to people. You have to have
some guts.
IDIOM guts- bravery, courage
Try to squeeze the phrasal verbs into your conversation.
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