Today’s Agenda
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Talk about replacement quiz and test.
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Return Test3
Optional RW for 1 point
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Practice noun clauses
Choose vocab for quiz, noun clauses
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New dialogue “Making Home Improvements”
Tuesday
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Presentations 1
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Continue dialogue “Making Home Improvements”
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Begin adjective clauses
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Quiz4- noun clauses (last 30 minutes)
Wednesday
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Presentations 2
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Continue adjective clauses
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Begin essay work EF5
Thursday
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Presentations 3
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Continue adjective clauses
Quiz Monday
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Continue essay work
Friday
No SCHOOL
Professional Development Day
Final week
Monday
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Quiz5 on adjective clauses
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Essay work
Tuesday
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Essay
Wednesday
Thursday
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Optional replacement quiz and/or test
Do you want to gamble with a quiz and/or test?
Friday-final day
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One-on-one meetings
I will be creating final marks and comments.
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Test3 Paragraph narrative or descriptive (last 60m)
Phones and devices put away.
I will give two topics: one narrative, one descriptive. You
can choose which one you want to write about.
Paragraph at least seven sentences.
A. Write about a difficult decision you had to make in your
life.
B. Describe the photograph.
#1 priority – Good sentences.
Simple, compound, and complex sentences.
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punctuation
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verb tense
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verb form
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articles
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spelling
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prepositions
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basic sentence structure S+V
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word form- vocabulary
There’s a lot to learn and practice.
Optional RW for 1 point. Pass it in today or first thing
tomorrow.
Getting better. Keep working. Keep practicing.
She is wearing a hat. He is wearing a ring.
She is wearing makeup.
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Presentations
Pass in your writing (a few paragraphs) first thing on the
day you are doing your talk.
I am going to sit in the back.
We can come up to the front one by one and talk to the
class.
You can have some notes, but do not read off the page.
We might ask you some questions about your topic.
We will give some positive feedback on slips.
These will be fun and interesting. You will feel a bit
nervous, but you’ll be fine.
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Next kind of sentence- complex
sentence with a noun clause
Sentence styles:
-SIMPLE SV
SSV SVV SSVV
Imperative Interrogative
-COMPOUND SV, SOBA SV.
EF56 level
SV; SV.
SV; TRANS, SV.
-COMPLEX
- adverb clauses because
when if unless
although until after
- noun clauses TODAY,
this week
- adjective clauses next week
Noun clauses
-used with verbs that have to do
with thinking or your brain/mind:
e.g. think, know, hope, understand,
believe, feel, remember, forget
-used with verbs that have with speech
e.g. say, tell, remind, whisper, shout,
yell
We most often use these pronouns:
that why how
Two pools of words:
A-VERBS: think, know, hope,
understand, believe, feel, remember, forget, say, tell, remind, whisper, shout,
yell
B-PRONOUNS: ‘that’ ‘why’ ‘how’
To write a noun clause take an “A”
and put it with a “B” word.
A+B=noun clause
*think + that
Sarah thinks that it will rain
tomorrow.
*believe + that
Mei believes
that she will pass her driving test.
*know + that
Sarah knows that English is very
important for her success in Canada.
*hope + that
Mei hopes that
she will win the lottery.
*know + why
Molly doesn’t know why the baby is crying.
*know + what
Do you know what time it is?
* say + that
He said that the rock is too heavy to move.
*believe + that
She believes that she can be successful in Canada.
*understand + what
Do you understand what I mean?
*feel + that
Joan feels that her daughter is not doing as
well as she could be in school.
CONTINUE
Two pools
of words:
A-VERBS: think,
know, hope, understand, believe, feel, remember, forget, say, tell, remind,
whisper, shout, yell
B-PRONOUNS:
”that’ ‘why’
‘how’ OTHER WORDS
who, whatever, whenever, if, whether, etc.
Choose
ten verbs to review for the quiz. I will choose six of them.
We will
choose ten vocab words to review. I will choose six of them.
e.g.
Write a sentence with a noun clause for each.
1. know job
I know (that) you will get a
great job.
I know that finding a job is very hard.
Three
types of dependent clauses:
adverb clauses
noun clauses
adjective
clauses
usage
She is
happy because
she got a new job.
adverb cl
She
wonders if she will
like her new apartment. noun clause
She was talking
to her neighbour who is 90 years old. adjective clause
Keeping
them straight is a challenge.
He hopes that he will find new friends
in Vancouver.
EXCEPTION
She knows
how to knit.
We know how to get to the party.
He knows how to talk to people.
Let’s
choose some verbs to review.
1. think
2. know
3. hope
4. believe
5. remember
6. forget
7. say
8. tell*
9. shout
10.
yell
say She said that she would be late today.
tell She told
me that she
would be late today.
Mei
always says that
she is busy.
Did you say that you were from Iran?
Did you say that you were Iranian/Persian?
Let’s choose
some nouns to review.
1. book
2. house
3. city
4. problem
5. car
6. cold
7. horse
8. difficult
9. colourful
10.
costume
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New dialogue: Making Home Improvements
Let’s get into small groups (4-5 people)
Discuss Brainstorming and Vocabulary Preview
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