Summer English Foundations 7/Composition and Literary
Studies 10
Good morning, everyone.
Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
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Final dialogue “Handling a Medical Emergency”
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Finish leftovers- work we haven’t finished
negative modals
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Talk about sentence combining
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Optional opportunity to do one replacement quiz
and/or one replacement test (last 1hr30m)
Friday- Final day
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Return everything
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FOR FUN Vocabulary exercises
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Non-instructional day
No quizzes or tests
You can stay or go- up to you.
I will finish final marks and comments.
One-on-one conferences about
final reports, if you want.
You can get your final report
from the office usually the next
week. Ask in the office.
It will have the final mark and
the comments:
ORAL WRITTEN
NEXT STEPS
Month off!!
Back on Tuesday, September 8th?
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Final dialogue “Handling a Medical Emergency”
Let’s try a few dialogues.
Volunteers
A, B, C
CPR- cardio-pulmonary resuscitation
cardio- heart
cardiologist- heart specialist, doctor
pulmonary- lungs, breathing
AR- artificial respiration
artificial- not real, manmade
respiration breathing
First Aid Training
conscious- awake an aware, responsive
consciousness- awareness of ourselves
Is AI conscious?
self-reflective consciousness- we are aware of being aware
Dogs are not self-consciously aware.
conscience- the voice in our head that tells you right from
wrong
musophobia- fear of mice
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leftover work?
-negative modals
can could should will might
ought to had better-
strong ‘should’, less than ‘must;
be going to have got
to
e.g. I had better go home right after class.
You had better call your sister.
Jun had better/really should cut down on his smoking.
ORDER OF EMPHATIC SUGGESTION
should
had better
must
have to
have got to
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MODALS
She can speak French.
She can not speak French.
She can’t speak French. contraction
She cannot speak French. ‘cannot’ a bit more formal,
my choice
She can speak French and English.
She can’t speak French and or English.
She will have some donuts.
She will not have some any donuts.
I could hardly sleep last night. positive- not much
I couldn’t sleep at all last night. negative-
no sleep
-insomnia- can’t sleep
IDIOM tossing and turning
I was tossing and turning all night.
I tossed and turned all night because I was worried about
my daughter.
She tosses and turns at night. She does not sleep well.
She has had insomnia since she was a teenager.
She is an insomniac.
She counts sheep.
-good sleeper
He sleeps like a baby.
She is out like a light.
The kids are asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow.
She drifts off to
sleep. goes to sleep slowly
Any other modals?
need to - semi modal?
We need to get some milk.
You don’t need to buy a new phone. The old one is fine.
need to = less than ‘have to’? should
Sorry I was absent yesterday. I needed to pick up my sister at the airport.
I didn’t need to go to
the meeting after all.
You need to pick up
your brother at the station.
You don’t need to pick up
your brother at the station.
FORMAL- UNUSUAL You needn’t
pick up your brother at the station.
could
She couldn’t go/ couldn’t to the party last week.
She can’t go to the party this Friday.
**unresponsive
-verb tense exercise
“Test 1 A 1-20”
We have covered seven high-frequency verb tenses:
SIMPLE PRESENT
SIMPLE PAST
SIMPLE FUTURE
PRESENT PROGRESSIVE
PAST PROGRESSIVE
PRESENT PERFECT
PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
A bit more challenging.
1.am waiting
2.has appeared
appear(v) – in a movie or a show
He appeared in The Truman Show.
Joe Shmoe appears on TV talk shows regularly.
3.is in her room studying
is studying in her room
4.was just thinking – past progressive- past activity
with an interruption
5.do you think
6.has been working- present perfect progressive – sounds temporary
7.am going to make – already planned/ will make
ingredients
8.find
9.is – same structure as #8
10.was watching- ‘while’
*past progressive and ‘while’ go well together
11.have existed
one fish, two fish
fishes- ARCHAIC FORM – really old fashioned
IDIOM for ages- for a long long time
I have done yoga for ages.
Jun and Marie have been friends for ages.
12. has been ringing
IDIOM The phone has been ringing off the hook.
13.depends- simple present- always, fact
14.am staying- present progressive-suggests the future, a
touch more casual
am going to stay- best choice
will stay- less good
15.has made
decade- ten years
century- 100 years
millennium- 1000 years
milli- 1000
millilitre, millimetre,
millipede, centipede-
ped- foot
bicycle pedal, pedestrian, pedicure- mani and pedi
manicure- get your nails down
16.stepped
17.were waiting / had been waiting-GRAMMAR BOOK
board(v) to get on a plane, bus, ferry
aboard(adj) -on the bus, plane, ferry
The passengers are all aboard.
bored(adj) - uninterested
18.isn’t going to exist / won’t exist
19.had never won – PAST PERFECT
league- a group of sports teams playing against each other
20.will have been studying- FUTURE PERFECT PROGRESSIVE-
GRAMMAR BOOK
RW Chen has been studying English for almost three years. He
still needs more training before he finishes.
Chen will study English for three years. now-three years
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Sentence Combining
Comp 11, Eng11&12
-several short sentences
-find the key information in each
-combine them into one longer, denser sentence
dense- a lot of information in a compact sentence
6. You have the illustration of the cake. if when
It does not make sense.
VOCAB illustration- drawing, picture
-example,
for example-as an illustration
You have the illustration of the cake.
It does not make sense.
SIMPLE? COMPOUND? COMPLEX?
COMPOUND
You have the illustration of the cake; however, it does not
make sense.
COMPLEX
If you have the illustration of the cake, it does not make
sense.
IDIOM You can’t have your cake and eat it, too.
Most effective way to improve sentence writing and speaking.
Helps to develop dense, organized sentences.
Search for writing books by William Strong
sentence writing exercises from beginner to intermediate, to
advanced levels.
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