Monday, 12 January 2026

EF6WI567 Class 34

 

Today’s agenda

·      Attendance

·      Talk about presentation tomorrow

·      Continue adj cl

Prep for Quiz tomorrow

Choose vocab

·      REMAINING TIME

Time to finish your presentation

LEFTOVER Verb Tense exercises- “Test B 21-40”

 

Tuesday

·      Presentations- first group

·      Begin essay work

·      Quiz 6 (last 25m of class)

 

Wednesday

·      Presentations- second group

·      Continue essay work

 

Thursday

·      Presentations- third group

·      Continue essay work

 

NEXT WEEK- final week

-essay to pass in

-opportunity to write optional replacement quiz and/or test

-second spoken mark

 

Friday-January 23rd, last day

·      One-on-one meetings

·      Final marks and comments (similar to midterm comments)

·      I give the office final marks and comments.

You can get your report card from the office- not sure what day.

 

 

 

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Presentations-

1.    You will give me your writing first thing. You will need our own notes for your presentation.

2.    You will come to the front of the class. You will tell us about your person or place (3-5 minutes).

3.    You can use the LCD projector if you want.

*Check it today to make sure it works.

4.    We might ask you some questions.

5.    We will give you some feedback. We will tell you what we liked most about the presentation. We will also tell you what would make it better next time.

We will always give constructive criticism. We will be positive and respectful.

 

VOCAB constructive criticism- feedback meant to help the person, help them to get better

 

judgemental- negative criticism

 

The presentations will interesting and fun. They can get tearful at times.

 

 

 

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Adjective clauses- last kind of clause

 

SIMPLE SENT

COMPOUND SENT

COMPLEX SENT- adverb clause, noun clauses, adjective clauses

*Every sentence that you write and say formally has to be one of these.

 

 

Adjective clauses

who

that

which

 

where

whom- rare

 

Quiz who, that, which

 

HANDOUT Understanding and Using English Grammar, Betty Azar

Excellent grammar book.

 

Higher-level:

 

subject pronouns

object pronouns

 

GRAMMAR BOOK who/that- people

The truth is that ‘who’ sounds much nice for people than ‘that’.

 

Exercise 1

1.    The girl is happy. She won the race.

The girl who won the race is happy.  subject pronoun

The race that the girl won made her happy. object pronoun

 

The girl is happy when she won the race. adverb clause

The happy girl won the race. SIMPLE SENT

The girl won the race, so she was happy. COMPOUND SENT

 

The girl was happy, so she won the race. XXX

FIXES

The girl was happy because she won the race.

The girl won the race, so she was happy.

 

 

The girl who won the race is happy.  subject pronoun

The girl who is happy won the race.  subject pronoun

 

The girl, who won the race, is happy.  subject pronoun

 

Tremendous variety of sentence styles.

If you can write these styles, you are good for any level- high school, college, university, job, career.

 

3.    The student who is from China sits next to me.

The student who sits next to me is from China.

COMMON ERROR

The student is from China who sits next to me. XXX

 

 

The student who sits next to me is from China.

COMMON ERROR

The student he sits next to me is from China. XXX

My sister, she is a nurse. XXX

My sister, Maria, she is a nurse. XXX

 

The student who sits next to me is from China. subject pronoun-cannot delete

The student who is sitting next to me is from China. subject pronoun-cannot delete

 

The student who I really like is from China. object pronoun- can delete

The student who I really like is from China. object pronoun- can delete

The student I really like is from China. object pronoun- can delete

 

4.    The students who sit in the front row are from China. subject pronoun

5.    The students who are from China sit in the front row.

 

MODEL: The students who sit in the front row are from China.

Change vocab.

 

The Iranian protesters who are fighting against the government are very brave.

 

The apartment that is conveniently-located downtown is expensive.

 

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hyphen-   dash –

two or more words modifying (describing) a noun   hyphen

 

She is a young kid.  

She is two-year-old child.  no ‘s’

 

CASUAL PUNCTUATION, LOOKS ENERGETIC

I  need a vacation– I‘m tired. casual writing, story writing, not for school

dash one longer line –

 

 

** hyphenated modifiers

Let’s take a ten-minute break.

I dropped a twenty-dollar bill on the floor.

$20 bill

 

EF6 is a nine-week course.

She took a 13-hour flight to Hong Kong.

 

 

MODEL QUIZ 5

Write a sentence with an adjective clause for each.

3.    get phone

Marie got the phone that she wanted.

The kid who has black hair will get a phone for his birthday.

I got my phone in the same store where you got yours.

 

4.    take nap

The girl who is taking a nap is my daughter.

The girl who looks exhausted needs to take a nap.

 

The girl who is exhausted and need to take a nap. XX

FIXES

The girl who is exhausted and needs to take a nap. adj cl

The girl who is exhausted and needs to take a nap. SIMPLE SVV

The girl who is exhausted, and she needs to take a nap.  COMPOUND

 

The girl is exhausted and needs to take a nap. SIMPLE SVV

The girl is exhausted, and she needs to take a nap.  COMPOUND

 

5.    buy groceries

He will buy that groceries that are on the list.

 

4.

5.

6.

 

 

 

 

Let’s choose 20 words of vocab to review.


1.    library

2.    city

3.    issue-problem

4.    job

5.    party

6.    office

7.    house

8.    people

9.    education

10.                       change

11.                       child

12.                       story

13.                       money

14.                       daycare

15.                       name

16.                       member

17.                       area

18.                       service

19.                       weather

20.                       world


 

 

Example: member education

I am a member of the school that offers high school education to adults.

 

issue daycare

I had an issue with the daycare that my son goes to.

 

 

 

The carrots are in the vegetable aisle.

 

Exercise 1

7.    Algebra problems contain letters. They stand for unknown numbers.

What does ‘they’ refer to?

Algebra problems contain letters that stand for unknown numbers.

 

x2 + y4=

 

8.    The taxi driver who took me to the airport was friendly.

The taxi driver who was friendly took me to the airport

 

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Verb Tenses

B

3.    will be sleeping- rarely used, future progressive

7.    will help

8.    has been

10.will have forgotten – very rarely used, future perfect

 

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