Thursday, 19 February 2026

P1 EF710 Class 12

 

Ramadan- religious practice, annual, Muslim

-cannot eat or drink anything for one month, from sunrise to sunset

fast days fast-no eating

He was on a two-day fast.

You have to fast before you get an operation or a blood test.

Some people fast to lose weight or for health reasons.

Religious fasting requires no food or water.

 

Christian – Lent – leading up to Easter- 40? days give up one thing

 

 

UPCOMING SENTENCE WORK:

Parallelism

Using quotations marks to incorporate borrowed text.

Sentence combining

 

Today’s Agenda

·         Attendance

·         Return Test 2

Go over, talk about

Emphasis C1 & C5

Optional RW for one point.

·      Teach using quotation marks in academic writing “ 

This will take several classes. We will do lots of practice.

·      Continue “I Confess”

“Characteristics of Short Stories”

·      Continue sentence work- “Complex Sentences”

 

Friday

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 3

·      Prepare for Test 3 on “I Confess” probably Monday

 

Monday

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Begin “I Confess”

Chat groups of 4-5 people

Work on “Thought Questions”

 

 

 

 

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Test 2

Dividers

Take out several sheets of paper.

You can have the story out.

You can have “Transitional Terms” out.

All other notes, phones, devices put away.

 

Write a well-organized paragraph of at least 150 words on the following topic:

Why did the boys change their minds at the climax of the story?

 

PREWRITING (make a plan)

1.    Read the question. Make sure we understand the question)

2.    Brainstorm ideas.

3.    Organize the ideas

 

 

 

 

1.    boys felt compassion for the pheasants

-birds cold

-covered with ice

-weak

-helpless

2. realize same situation

          -‘breath’

          -heads moving

          -‘grass seed’ ‘eggs’

3. young, unprepared

          -no sacks

          -no clubs

          - never done that before

 

*Not a plot summary.*

 

 

WRITING

4.Write the first draft.

-sentences

 

Topic sentence- linked the question

e.g. Why did the boys change their minds at the climax of the story?

TS      The boys changed their minds decided to act differently at the end of the story for three reasons.

 

TS      The rain fell all day. Everything was covered in ice. XXX

 

 

5.Proofread and edit. sp, vt, punc, vf

6. Pass it in. I mark it.

NOTES: Do not copy from the story.

 

MARKING: PLOs

*Focus on C1-

-using conventions, forms and structures of writing

-organization of ideas

-grammar and usage

-all the details about sentence writing

- sentence structure, verb tense, verb form, punctuation, phrasing

*Focus on C5

-generate, develop, and organize ideas

-setting a purpose What are we writing about? based on the question

-limiting the topic  Focusing on the question.

 

REMEMBER:  You will have an opportunity to replace one test and/or quiz on the second last day of the course.

 

*verb tense- Choose a verb tense and stick with it. Use all past tenses or use all present tenses. Avoid switching verb tenses.

Using verb tenses is probable easier. The question was in past tense. The story was in past tense.

 

 

TRANS

finally   in the end   ultimately

 

You can pass in the Test2RW today or first thing tomorrow.

 

 

 

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Quotation marks   

        - single quotation marks

   “ – double quotation marks – used much much more often

       99% of the time

 

Uses of quotation marks      1.titles e.g. short stories

2.reported speech

3.irony, ironic finger quotes (for talking, casual)

4. borrowed words from a text

 

1.    titles – short story, chapter in a book, magazine article, -newspaper article, part of a book, not a whole book

short stories

“I Confess”

“What Happened During the Ice Storm”

 

<< I Confess >> Chinese, not English

math 5 > 3

 

-name of a book

The Identity Trap  italics   ctrl i

Grammar In Use

The Identity Trap

Grammar In Use

How to Know a Person

How to Know a Person

 

name of a newspaper

Korean Daily

Korean Daily

The Vancouver Sun

The Province

The Vancouver Sun

The Province

 

magazine Fretboard Journal or Fretboard Journal

article “Bluegrass Now”

 

National Geographic or National Geographic “Sumatra”

Vogue Vogue

 

movie or TV show Bad Guy   Holes   Titanic

 

Title of a novel, book by itself, magazine , something that has its own covers

magazine “Fretboard Journal”

Fretboard Journal or Fretboard Journal

ctrl i- on a keyboard

 

name of a font style- italics

 

Animal Farm   Animal Farm  italics

writing with a pen, underline Impact

writing on computer, use italics Impact

 

In the novel Shanghai Girls, the theme of ….

In the novel Shanghai Girls, the theme of ….

 

“The Sniper”   “Charles”       We can tell that these are titles of

short stories.      

 

 

<<What Happened During the Ice Storm>> NOT ENGLISH

<<The Sniper>> NOT ENGLISH 

“The Sniper” THE ENGLISH WAY

Math   5>4 greater than   4<6 lesser than

> alligator’s mouth   The alligator always eats the bigger number.

     usually double quotation marks, not single ‘ 

“ “         normally we use double quoatation marks, 95% of the time

 

e.g.

In the story “What Happened During the Ice Storm”, the boys changed their minds about killing the pheasants.

 

English “  

Farsi (   )  brackets

Chines <<    >>

 

The class really enjoyed reading Animal Farm.

The class really enjoyed reading “Roses Sing on New Snow”.

Luis is reading a book called Two Pieces of Clothes. computer

Luis is reading a book called Two Pieces of Clothes. handwriting

Charlotte’s Web  is a very popular kids’ book.  

 

“Animal Farm”   XXX, not both, just one or the other

either belt or suspenders

IDIOM He is a belt and suspenders kind of person.

 

kids’ book  - ‘  apostrophe, shows possession

 

Joe’s new bicycle is pretty rad/cool.

Joe’s sister’s bike is also really nice. one sister

Joe’s sisters’ bikes are also really nice. two sister, three sisters

 

The student’s writing is improving. 1 person

The students’ writing is improving. all of them

Is the noun singular or plural. Put the apostrophe after the word.

 

The dogs’ leashes got tangled.

 

punctuation – umbrella term – comma, period, apostrophe, semicolon, colon, exclamation point, quotation mark, hyphen, dash

 

Jun read an article in The Vancouver Sun called “What does Putin Want?”.

Jun read an article in The Vancouver Sun called “The Future for Ukraine”.

 

italics  (ctrl+i)

Good Food has an article called “Old-Fashioned Apple Pie”.

Good Food has an article called “Old-Fashioned Apple Pie”.

 

bold- not necessary, used for visual effects

Netflix series The Sinner “Episode 1: The Argument”

All the Light We Cannot See

Black Mirror

 

 

2.    reported speech, direct speech- exact words that someone says, quote, quotation

“ “ quotation marks

reported speech, direct speech- exact words that someone says, quote, quotation

Mary said, “I am going to be late today.”

You said, “I will pick up the kids.”

Barack Obama said, “Yes, we can!”

He said, “Hello.”

 

My sister said you should be careful. XXX

FIX

My sister said, “You should be careful.”

direct speech- exact words

Her mother said eat something. XXX

Her mother said, “Eat something.”

 

The little boy yelled, “Give me my toy back!”

exclamation point- loud or high energy

She said, “What a surprise!”

 

 

 

indirect speech- not the exact words, just the idea

My sister said, “You should be careful.” direct speech, quotation

My sister said that I should be careful. indirect speech, no quotation

 

Mary said that she will be late today. indirect speech, no quotation

Mary said, “I will be late today.” direct speech, quotation

SCENARIO- situation

You said that you would buy some milk. NOUN CLAUSE

I said, “I might buy some milk.”

 

*Fiction writers like to break the rules.

 

You said that you would pick up the kids. indirect, no quotation

You said, “I will pick up the kids.” direct, quotation

 

My friend said I don’t want to go to the party. I said you should go. XXX

FIX

My friend said, “I don’t want to go to the party.” I said, “You should go.”

My friend said (that) he didn’t want to go to the party. I said (that) he should go.

 

My mother said you have to do your homework. CONFUSING

FIXES

My mother said, “You have to do your homework.”

My mother said that I have to do my homework.

 

Using quotation marks “  “ double quotation marks 99% of the time

    ‘ single quotation marks 1% of your time , university papers

 

 

Barack Obama said that we can do it!

 

DIRECT  She said, “That will be fine.”

INDIRECT        She said that that will be fine.

 

3.     

Mary said that she is going to be late today. indirect speech, noun clause

 

COMMON ERROR

Mary said that I am going to be late today.

CONFUSING DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH

 

FIXES

Mary said that she is going to be late today. noun clause indirect

Mary said, “I am going to be late today.” direct

 

MIXING VERB TENSES IS OK SOMETIMES

Joe said that he will go to Hawaii for vacation.

 

 

COMMON ERROR My mother said that you should do your homework. Who is ‘you’?

FIXED My mother said to me, “You should do your homework.” direct

FIXED My mother said that I should do my homework. indirect

 

My daughter said, “Let’s go to the pet store.” DIRECT SPEECH

My daughter said that we should go to the pet store. INDIRECT SPEECH

that we should go to the pet store - noun clause

 

let’s – let us

 

**FURTHER INSTRUCTION ON QUOTING DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/quotation_marks/index.html

 

 

 

4.    to show irony, finger quotes- informal, casual speaking

three kinds of irony –

 

ironing

 

1. verbal irony – say something but mean the opposite,

not hurtful, gentle humour

“ “  finger quotes

 

sarcasm- meant to hurt someone, rough humour, biting humour

He is a sarcastic person.

 

SPOKEN Joan went to a party last night. She missed work today because she is “sick”.

SLANG She has the “party flu.” She is hungover. She has a hangover.

a hangover- headache, dehydration, and nausea from drinking too much the night before

 

 

2. dramatic irony – you know something that the character in the book or movie doesn’t know

 

3. situational irony- you try to do something to help someone but you wind up hurting them, you get the opposite result from what you intended

 

IDIOM  wind up – what happens in the end

“Dora wanted to move to Chicago, but she wound up going to Toronto.”

“Sue is studying business in college. She will probably wind up being a manager in a company.”

 

 

proposterous (adj) – ridiculous, outrageous

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MOST IMPORTANT FOR US

5.    quoting from a story- borrowing words from a story , putting them into your paragraph,

essay, citation, citing

Borrow words from a text. Incorporate the words into our writing. Include the words in our sentence.

 

-borrowing words without quoting them is plagiarism.

 

The boys saw that the birds were “blindfolded with ice”. Therefore, the boys felt empathy for them.

*Incorporate- put words from the story into your sentence.

“helpless pheasants”

The boys were looking at the “helpless pheasants” and felt sorry for them.

Both the boys and the birds were covered with “icy rain.”

Both the boys and the birds were covered with frozen rain.

 

Read the idea. Rephrase it, restate it in your own word.

 

This is the basic idea of quoting from a text. We will practice it a lot in class.

 

HW   Write a few short sentences that have quoted words or phrases from the story “Ice Storm”. We can share them tomorrow.

 

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