Tuesday, 8 April 2025

WI567 Class 35

 

Good afternoon

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Return Test3- paragraph

Talk about sentences

Optional RW for a bonus point

·      Talk about replacement quiz or test

·      Go over subject verb agreement exercises from homework

·      Continue noun clauses

Quiz soon

 

Work to come:

causative verbs

appositives

essays

 

Wednesday

·      Continue noun clauses

 

Thursday

·      Quiz4- noun clauses

 

Friday

·      Begin adjective clause- final kind of clause

 

 

Wednesday, April 16

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test.

 

Thursday, April 17 - Final day

·      Non-instructional day

·      One-on-one meetings if you want, just like midterm

Final marks and comments

·      Preparing report cards

Submit the final marks and report cards to the office

 

 

 

 

Test 3

-narrative writing- at least 300 150-200 words

 

First priority- high quality sentences

SIMPLE SENTENCES

COMPOUND SENTENCES

COMPLEX SENTENCES

 

-         punc           punctuation        .   ,    ;

-         vt                 verb tenses-        three simple tenses, present and past

progressive, present perfect, present perfect progressive

ESSENTIAL VERB TENSES

-         vf                 verb form             She is go goes / is going to school.

She was go went to school.

 

These are the things that we have to know cold.

 

IDIOM know something cold- know it completely, in your bones, muscle memory, automatic

 

Goals for the future, beginning now.

 

Optional RW for a bonus point. Hand it in today or first thing tomorrow.

 

 

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apostrophes 

1.contraction   

it is = it’s

he is = he’s

you will = you’ll

let us= let’s

         - its

         - it’s

          

2. show possession

Butter’s tail is fluffy.

possesive pronouns - your phone   her phone   our class   my time

Jun’s phone   Sara’s class    Juan’s time

 

the hotel’s staff   the hotel staff

the car’s window the car window

the hospital’s parking lot the hospital parking lot

Why? not alive?

 

How many friends?

my friend’s recommendation -one friend

my friends’ recommendation -two friends

 

my cousin’s mother’s house- your cousin has a mother, her mother has a house

my cousins’ mother’s house- your cousins have a mother, their mother has a house

 

your friend’s dog’s mother’s sister’s bone

 

my cousin’s mother-in-law’s house

 

Jessica’s new car

Jess’ new car OR Jess’s new car

Which one do you like more?

Jess’ new car OR Jess’s new car

Jess’ new car- looks simpler, neater, cleaner

 

James’ new car   OR   James’s new car

 

the child’s toys

the children’s toys

 

Your grandmother’s eyes are warm and loving. -one grandmother

The student’s tests were good. one student, many tests

The students’ tests were good. many students, many tests

The students’ singing performance was fantastic.

 

I appreciate my parents’ support. two parents

I appreciate my parent’s support. one parent

I appreciate my father’s support.

 

He was raised in a single-parent household.

She is a single-parent.

 

 

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prepositon – all idiomatic, few rules

She left Iran for Norway.

She went from Iran to Norway.

 

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Matching Verbs with Other Pronouns

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

16. You never change. She changes clothes every few hours.

 

I draw doodles on my paper.

doodles- small cartoons or pictures that you draw on paper.

 

 

 

 

** Optional replacement quiz and/or test **

 

A few people have asked me about rewriting quizzes and or tests. Maybe you had a bad quiz and or test or missed a quiz and/or test.

 

In my classes, I offer an optional replacement quiz and/or test for anyone who would like to do one.

 

Next Wednesday, you will have an opportunity to replace one of the quizzes and/or tests that you wrote.

 

Again, this is optional. You don’t have to do it if you don’t want to.

 

So far we have done some 5 quizzes:

 

Quiz#1        X/6

Quiz#2        X/6

Quiz#3        X/6

Quiz#4        X/6

Quiz#5        X/6

You have your marks for those.

You may have one quiz that you were not satisfied with.

 

One is one. Not two, not three. 1=1

You choose which one you want to replace.

 

You will do the replacement quiz during regular class time, as usual. We will do it the final (25m) at the end of the class.

 

The replacement quiz will be a new quiz. The replacement quiz will be a mix of all sentence styles.

e.g. If you want to replace your Quiz #2, the compound sentence quiz, the replacement quiz will not just be on compound sentence; it will be on all of the sentence styles.The replacement quiz will be six sentences, as usual- mix of simple, compound, complex.

 

**The replacement quiz will be a mix of all of the sentence styles.

 

Your old mark will be replaced with the new mark. It will not be the higher of the two marks.

 

Exactly the same situation with the replacement test. It will be a paragraph on a new topic.

 

EF56 **No replacement opportunity for the essay

 

 

EXAMPLE SCENARIO #1

Q1 4/6

Q2 0/6 4/6

Q3 6/6

Q4 5.5/6

Q5 5/6

 

You can choose to replace Q2.

Replacement quiz- 4/6

*Great outcome.* The average from your quizzes goes up.

 

EXAMPLE SCENARIO #2

Q1 4/6 3/6

Q2 4.5/6

Q3 4.5/6

Q4 5/6

Q5 5/6

 

You choose to replace Q1.

Replacement quiz 3/6

*Less-than-ideal outcome* The average for your quizzes goes down.

 

EXAMPLE SCENARIO #3

Q1 2/6

Q2 1.5/6

Q3 0/6 3.5/6

Q4 0/6

Q5 2/5

 

Q3 or Q4- you decide Q3

Replacement quiz 3.5/6   The average for your quizzes will go up. You’re getting closer to pass. You will feel better.

 

 

Think carefully about if you would like to replace one of your quiz and/or test marks.

 

ADVICE:

If you have pretty good marks, just leave them. Don’t bother with the replacement quiz and /or test.

On the other hand, if you have a really low mark somewhere or missed a quiz or test, it would be worth doing the replacement quiz and/or test.

 

We will do the replacement quiz and/or test next Wednesday.

You can choose to write the replacement quiz and/or test.

On the test paper, you will have to tell me which quiz and/or test you are replacing

 

e.g  top of the paper

Replacement Quiz- replace Quiz3

Replacement Test- replace Test2

 

**The replacement quiz will be a mix of all three sentence types.

The replacement test will be a new topic.

 

 

 

 

 

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