Today’s agenda
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Attendance
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Talk about presentation tomorrow
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Continue adj cl
Prep for Quiz tomorrow
Choose vocab
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REMAINING TIME
Time to finish your presentation
LEFTOVER Verb Tense exercises- “Test B 21-40”
Tuesday
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Presentations- first group
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Begin essay work
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Quiz 6 (last 25m of class)
Wednesday
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Presentations- second group
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Continue essay work
Thursday
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Presentations- third group
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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
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One-on-one meetings
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Final marks and comments (similar to midterm
comments)
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I give the office final marks and comments.
You can get your report card from the office-
not sure what day.
**
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.
**
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.
**
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
**
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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