EF67
Today’s agenda
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Final reports, final marks, comments
·
One-on-one meetings
Friday, 3 November 2023
EF45 Final class- marks day, one-on-one meetings
English Foundations
4/5
Today’s agenda
·
No instruction
·
Marks/Final reports
·
One-on-one meetings, just like midterm recs
Week break
Back on Tuesday, November 14th
funeral- burial
service- get together and remember the person
Celebration of Life- gathering to remember the person
lunch, buffet
During Covid, people waited to have a Celebration of Life.
grave- buried in the ground, with a gravestone
tomb- stone structure
RIP- Rest in Peace
cremated- burned into ash
end-of-life
reincarnation- belief that people come back to life in another
body – dog, person, snake, fly
come back into another class
Breka – coffee and very nice bakery, Fraser and south of 49th
Avenue (across the street from Starbucks)
Thursday, 2 November 2023
EF67 Class 40 sentence combining wrap-up
EF67
Today’s agenda
·
Talk about online sentence tutorial
Late November- late January
Scan the QR code on posters around the
school or check the blog for the link.
·
Return essay
Go over
·
Continue sentence combining exercises
·
Wrap-up, review
·
Optional replacement test (final hour)
Friday - Final day
·
No instruction
·
Final reports, final marks, comments
·
One-on-one meetings
Essay
Write an organized five-paragraph essay of 300-350 words on
ONE of the following topics.
CHOOSE ONE:
1.
What would you do if you won $10 million lottery?
2.
What are the secrets of a happy life?
3.
Bicycles as an alternative means of
transportation
FREE ADVICE: Organize
your ideas before you write.
Be specific.
Write good
sentences.
Paper orientation
5 paragraphs
Doublespace
Indent
Margins
Organization-
evidence of prewriting, planning and organization
Introductory
paragraph
Grabber
Clear thesis
statement
Preview of three
points
3 Body paragraphs
Clear topic sentence
Organized
supporting points
Concluding
paragraph
Restatement of thesis
statement
Restatement of 3
points
Clincher
Quality of
sentences
Each sentence simple,
compound, or complex
You have to know what kind of
sentence you are writing.
You have to decide: SIMPLE
COMPOUND COMPLEX
If you don’t decide, you will
wind up wiitng a sentence that is ½ English and ½ your mother language.
e.g. Exists many
people in the world.
Many nice cookies
she baked.
I like to go for
walks to release my pressure to relax myself.
Verb tense and form
Punctuation
The basics : periods .
commas , semicolons ;
? : -
SIMPLE COMPOUND
COMPLEX
Every sentence should be one
of these types.
Sentence combining-
coordination- ‘co’- together, equal – compound sentence
SV, SOBA SV.
SV; SV.
SV; TRANS, SV.
subordination- ‘sub’
under- complex sentences
main clause + subordinate clause- adv cl, adj cl, n cl
“Washing the Car”
1.
Janet woke up on Saturday. KERNEL
She woke up early.
Decide: simple compound complex?
Janet woke up early on Saturday. SIMPLE
2.
She prepared to wash the car.
quickly
with excitement
new
her mother’s
What kind of sentence do we want?
With excitement, she quickly prepared with excitement
to wash her mother’s new car with excitement.
She quickly and excitedly prepared to wash her mother’s new car.
SIMPLE
She quickly prepared with excitement to wash her
mother’s new car.
OPTION the new car which was her mother’s
She was excited as/when she quickly prepared to wash her
mother’s new car. NATURAL
I was excited when I visited the museum/ went to see Taylor Swift.
How do English speakers talk? How do they write?
3.
Carefully, her mother carefully drove
the car carefully out of the garage carefully. choose one
4.
They gathered the supplies that were for cleaning
outside. COMPLEX- adj cl
They gathered the cleaning supplies outside.
SIMPLE
5.
They unwound the hose, and then gently Janet
gently sprayed the car gently.
6.
They washed the car together with sponges that
were soft.
with soft sponges.
Together, they washed the car.
We can fix the problem together.
Together, we can fix the problem.
We can fix it.- every knows that ‘it’
means
7.
Janet sprayed the car to rinse it afterwards.
8.
She dried and polished it thoroughly.
9.
They had a shiny car in the driveway in an hour.
In an hour, they had a shiny car in the
driveway.
They had a car which was shiny in
the driveway in an hour.
SIMPLE COMPOUND COMPLEX
Replacement Test:
What are your next plans for improving your English.
Replacement Quiz
Write an appropriate sentence for each:
SIMPLE SENTENCE
1. job
COMPOUND SENTENCES
2. tomorrow but
3. restaurant however
COMPLEX SENTENCES
4. exercise that
5. argue when
6. remember how
EF45 Class 40
English Foundatio\ns 4/5
**Online Sentence Structure Tutorial**
I put posters around the school.
Scan the QR code.
OR
Get the link on my blog: haleyshec.blogspot.com.
Today’s agenda
·
Finish sentence combining
·
Dialogues
·
Optional replacement test (last 1 hour of class)
Friday- last day
·
No instruction
·
Marks/Final reports
·
One-on-one meetings, just like midterm recs
Week break
Back on Tuesday, November 14th
Sentence Combining
-culmination of all the sentence work we have been doing for
the past nine weeks
Sentences types:
SIMPLE SV SSV
SVV SSVV
COMPOUND SV, SOBA
SV.
COMPLEX -ADVERB
CLAUSES
-NOUN
CLAUSES
-ADJECTIVE
CLAUSES
Every sentence you write, should be one of these. Within
these styles there are tens of thousands of sentences to write.
AREAS FOR DEVELOPMENT
-
punctuation ,
.
-
verb tenses simple
present
simple
past
simple future
present progressive
past
progressive
present
perfect
-vocabulary- word forms n, v, adj, adv
Recall your quizzes and tests. How is it going for you?
What do you have to get better at? What are you already good
at?
Sentence Combining
1.We were riding bicycles on the Seawall. SIMPLE
ADVICE: You should always know what kind of sentence you’re
writing. SIMPLE COMPOUND COMPLEX
If you don’t know what you want, if you don’t decide what
kind of sentence you want, you will often write ½ English and ½ another
language.
We are not beginners.
2. Our bicycles which were red and white were rented.
COMPLEX- adj cl
Our rented bicyles were red and white were rented.
REP
Our rented bicyles were red and white. SIMPLE
3-4. We wore helmets because helmets/they were required.
COMPLEX- adv cl
We wore helmets as they were required. COMPLEX- adv
cl
We wore helmets which were required. COMPLEX- adj
cl
5. The helmets were for safety even though they were an ugly
colour. COMPLEX-adv cl
The helmets were for safety, but they were an ugly colour.
COMPOUND
The helmets were an ugly colour, but they were for safety.
COMPOUND
The safety helmets were an ugly colour. SIMPLE
The ugly-coloured helmets were for safety. SIMPLE
6. The Seawall was busy and crowded. SIMPLE
The Seawall was busy, and it was crowded. COMPOUND
The Seawall was busy because it was crowded. COMPLEX-
adv cl
The Seawaal was crowded, so it was busy. COMPOUND
7. People were walking and rollerblading. SIMPLE SVV
snowshoeing
cross-country skiing
snowboarding
8. We rode slowly, and I rode in the middle. COMPOUND
We rode slowly while I rode in the middle. COMPLEX- adv cl
I rode in the middle while we rode slowly. COMPLEX- adv cl
I rode in the
middle and slowly. XXX not parallel prepostional phrase adverb
I rode carefully
and slowly. parallel
parallelism - AAA and BBB
-same type of word N V ADJ
9. My brother rode in front, and our friend rode behind.
COMPOUND SV SV
My brother rode in front of our friend who rode behind.
COMPLEX-adj cl
My brother rode in front while our friend rode behind.
COMPLEX- adv cl
10. We rode an hour without stopping, and (in the end) I was
out of breath with sore legs. COMPOUND
I was out of breath, and my legs were sore because
we rode an hour without stopping. COMPOUND COMPLEX
We rode an hour without stopping, so my legs were sore(,)
and I was out of breath. COMPOUND
Good work. This kind of practice really helps. It is
essential practice.
Practicing the basics.
Replacement test
Paragraph of at least 150 words.
What are next goals for learning English?
Wednesday, 1 November 2023
EF67 Class 39 essay
EF67
Today’s agenda
·
Essay – pass in essay
Thursday
·
Talk about online sentence tutorial
·
Continue parallelism
·
Continue sentence combining exercises
·
Wrap-up, review
·
Optional replacement test
Friday - Final day
·
Final reports, final marks
·
One-on-one meetings
Essay
Write an organized five-paragraph essay of 300-350 words on
ONE of the following topics.
CHOOSE ONE:
1.
What would you do if you won $10 million lottery?
2.
What are the secrets of a happy life?
3.
Bicycles as an alternative means of
transportation
FREE ADVICE: Organize
your ideas before you write.
Be specific.
Write good
sentences.
EF45 Class 39 Sentence Combining
English Foundations 4/5
**Online Sentence Structure Tutorial**
I put posters around the school.
Scan the QR code.
OR
Get the link on my blog: haleyshec.blogspot.com.
Today’s agenda
·
Collect writing for today’s presentations
·
Presentations
·
Continue sentence combining “Coffee”
·
Dialogues
Thursday
·
Optional replacement test (last 1 hour of class)
Friday- last day
·
Marks/Final reports
·
One-on-one meetings, just like midterm recs
Sentence Combining
PROCESS
Start with the kernel.
He sips at his coffee cup. KERNEL
Find new information in the following sentences.
The cup is chipped along the rim.
Combine these elements:
He sips at his coffee cup
chipped along the rim
Decide simple, compound, complex
Complex- adjective clause
He sips at his coffee cup which/that is chipped along the
rim.
1.Decide what kind of sentence you want.
2.Write it.
**If you don’t decide what kind of sentence you want, you
may write a mess.
“Cookies, cake, or bread?”
3,4,5
The taste is bitter. KERNEL
acidic
faintly soapy
SIMPLE
The taste is bitter, acidic, and faintly soapy.
COMPLEX- ADJ CL
The bitter taste, which is acidic, is faintly soapy.
black coffee- no milk, no sugar
dark roast coffee- dark brown, almost black, coffee beans
light roast coffee- light brown coffee beans
Americano- espresso with extra water
espresso- short, dense coffee
Cappucinno- Americano with steamed milk
latte- ?
Ethiopian coffee- roast green coffee beans at home
decaf- decaffinated coffee
Light roast coffee beans has more caffeine than dark roast
coffee beans.
Vietnamese coffee- strong drip coffee with condensed milk
-colony of France until the 1950s
French coffee- like espresso
Fancy delicious coffees
-mocha
-London Fog
6-8
There is a brown film on the inside of the cup.
The film, which is brown, is on the inside of the cup.
On the inside of his cup is
a brown film.
My parents love tea.
Never scrub a teapot!
Same as a cast iron pan.
His teeth are stained from smoking.
He got his teeth whitened/bleached.
9-10
He takes extra care so that he doesn’t spill any on his
clothes.
11-12
He is afraid that it might eat holes in the material. complex
sent- noun clause
He is afraid because it might eat holes in the material. complex
sent- adverb clause
The material is cotton. The material is silk. The material
is wool.
cashmere
leather
faux leather
faux- fake, not real ‘foe’
French
linen- easily wrinkled
faux fur, Fox fur
fleece
Gore-Tex
Link to Online Sentence Structure Tutorial
Topic: Haley Sentence Tutorial
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