WI567 Class 34

 

Good afternoon

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Verb tense review Exercise 2&3

·      Return Test3- paragraph

Talk about sentences

Optional RW for a bonus point

·      Modal auxiliaries, practice

·      Begin noun clauses

 

Work to come:

noun clauses

adjective clauses

causative verbs

appositives

essays

 

Tuesday

·      Continue noun clauses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REVIEW of verb tenses:

SIMPLE PRESENT

SIMPLE PAST

SIMPLE FUTURE

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

PAST PROGRESSIVE

PRESENT PERFECT

PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE

 

Errors vt- verb tense, vf- verb form

 

SINGULAR

everyone

-anyone

someone

noone

everyone

-anybody

somebody

nobody

everybody

-anything

something

nothing

everything

Anybody is able to come to the school.

Somebody is knocking on the door.

 

PLURAL

all of them

all of us

All of them are my cousins.

There are some gifts in this bag. All of them are yours.

All people want to be happy. – all human beings on Earth and the ISS

All of the people in the class want to improve their English skills. - specific group

 

SINGULAR

none of them?

 

 

 

Exercise 2:

Rewrite the sentences using the correct verb tense:

1.   I WAIT for over an hour. (present perfect progressive)

I have been waiting for over an hour.

2.   We PLAY tennis when it started raining. (past progressive)

We were playing tennis when it started raining.

3.  He is VISIT his grandparents next week. (simple future)

He is going to visit his grandparents next week.

He will visit his grandparents next week.

4.   They BUILD a new stadium in the city. (simple past)

They built a new stadium in the city.

5.   Someone STEAL my wallet. (present perfect)

Someone has stolen my wallet.  steal stole stolen

6.   Some people BELIEVE that aliens exist. (simple present)

Some people believe that aliens exist.

7.   The company LAUNCH new product next week. (present progressive)

The company is launching new product next week.

CASUAL? AUTHENTIC- present progressive to show future

8.   They ANNOUNCE the winners of the competition tomorrow.                                                                                  ,

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(simple future)

They will announce / are going to announce the winners of the competition tomorrow.

CASUAL They are announcing the winners of the competition tomorrow.

They will be announcing the winners of the competition tomorrow.

FUTURE PROGRESSIVE- not as commonly used

 

I will be absent tomorrow. Adj

My son will be tired when he gets home.

 

 

 

 

 

Exercise 3:

Choose the correct verb form:

1.   If I see                 (see/saw) him tomorrow, I will tell him the news.

2.   I wish I knew            (know/knew) how to play the guitar.

knew – not past tense, subjunctive mood- imagine something

 

If I were a millionaire, I would buy a solid gold toothbrush.

GIVING ADVICE If I were in your shoes, I wouldn’t do it.

If I were you, I would apologize to your sister.

 

ASKING FOR ADVICE- friend, confidante- somebody who you are close to and trust, can talk about your problems, secrets

What would you do if you were me?

What would you do if you were in my shoes?

Butter is my confidante.

confide)v)- to tell a secret

CONFIDENTIAL -secret

Confidentiality agreement – you promise to keep a secret

 

I told her a secret in confidence, and she told everyone. She blabbed.

VOCAB blab- tell someone else’s secret

IDIOM Her tongue was wagging. She never shuts up.

He is a motormouth.

NDA- non-disclosure agreement- legal promise not to tell business secrets

 

doctor-patient confidentiality- Your doctor cannot talk about your cases without cause.

teacher-student confidentiality-  adult students information is private

Power of Attorney- represent and speak for adults for are unable to take care of themselves

guardian- take care of people under 19

 

mature-

adult- legal term, 19+

immature- childish

 

3.   By the time you wake up this morning, I will have already finished FUTURE PERFECT- not commonly used                                  _ (already/finish) cooking breakfast.

4.   She has worked / has been working                                 (work) on her novel for three months now.

5.   The train will leave / is going to leave / is leaving(talking)            (leave) in five minutes. Hurry up!

 

6.   I wish I could             (can) speak Spanish fluently.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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few – 3, several

few- some, not enough

a few – some, not many

 

There are a few places to learn karate in South Van. not many, but they are there

There are few places to learn karate in South Van. not many, not enough, lack of

I have a few friends.

I have few friends.

There are few wild tigers left in China.

I did few exercises last week.

I did a few exercises last week.

 

 

Noun Clauses

 

Two pools of words to choose from for noun clauses:

A.   VERBS

-cognition- think, feel, believe, know, understand, forget, remember, recall, realize, recognize, worry, regret, wonder, find, see, hear

-communicating- say, yell, whisper, shout, scream, suggest, predict, speak, advise, murmur, mutter, stutter, mention

 

B.    We most often connect these verbs with these words: that, what, why, how, who, where, which (noun cl and adj cl)

 

Examples:

-say that

She said that she would be late today. COMPLEX SENTENCE- noun clause

She said, ”I will be late today.” different style -quotation

 

-remember where

He remembered where he met you. COMPLEX SENTENCE- noun clause

Does he remember where he met you?

Where did he meet you? SIMPLE SENTENCE

 

I remember where she lives. COMPLEX SENTENCE- noun clause

I don’t remember where I bought this sweater. COMPLEX SENTENCE- noun clause

 

-         remember that

I remember that where she lives.

I remember that SV.

I remember that we used to be at the same school.

I remember her name. SIMPLE SENT

I remember that her name was Shira. COMPLEX SENT- noun cl

 

-remember who

I remember who you’re father was.

I remember who taught me English for the first time.

 

-         regret, that

I regret that I came to Canada.

 

-         regret how

I regret how I got mad at my son yesterday.

 

Group A + Group B – make a noun clause

 

I regret how/that I missed good opportunties in my life.

 

-recognize that

I recognixe that he feels regret about that problem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two pools of words to choose from for noun clauses:

A.   VERBS

-cognition- think, feel, believe, know, understand, forget, remember, recall, realize, recognize, worry, regret, wonder, find, see, hear

-communicating- say, yell, whisper, shout, scream, suggest, predict, speak, advise, murmur, mutter, stutter, mention

 

B.    We most often connect these verbs with these words: that, what, why, how, who, where, which (noun cl and adj cl)

 

-feel, that

She feels (that) the shirt is too expensive.

-think that

She thinks that the shirt is too expensive.

-know, that

He knows that he should quit smoking.

 

I think that (that) is enough for today.

 

 

 

 

Test3

Write a narrative paragraph of at least 300 words on one of the following topics:

A lessons I learned from failure

A memorable journey

A strange or unexpected encounter

A difficult decision I made

The happiest day of my life

A time I helped someone