EF34 20 class- noun clauses, Presentation #1

 

EF34

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 11:00.

 

                    

Today’s agenda:

·      Continue complex sentences- noun clauses

Practice

·      Presentation #1– class time to do the writing

 

 

Wednesday

·      Quiz#4- noun clauses

·      Presentation #1– class time to do the writing

 

 

Thursday

·      Presentations

 

 

Friday

·      Xmas story

·      Xmas movie

·      Bring some snacks if you like.

 

 

NOUN CLAUSES

A-list verbs: ‘think’ ‘know’ ‘understand’ ‘believe’ ‘realize’ ‘feel’ ‘say’

B-list pronouns: ‘that’ ‘why’ ‘how’

 

* think + that

Shari thinks that she will go skiing next week.

* understand why

I don’t understand why my daughter doesn’t clean up her disgusting filthy room.

 

* If you want to learn English, you have to believe that you can do it.

 

I think that the fire drill was successful.

drill- practice

 

Try some of your own:

A-list verbs: ‘think’ ‘know’ ‘understand’ ‘believe’ ‘realize’ ‘feel’ ‘say’

B-list pronouns: ‘that’ ‘why’ ‘how’

Join A+B to make a sentence with a noun clause.

A+B  know+why

 

My sister knows why I was late yesterday.

I can’t believe how quickly I am learning English.

I don’t know why you always give money to him.

I can’t believe that I forgot my doctor’s appointment.

Sometimes I think that I should go back to my home country.

I think that you can make a good life here.

We don’t understand why the business was not a success.

 

understand -

realize- understand all of a sudden, very quickly, snap of your fingers, lightbulb comes on

 

I realized suddenly that I left my stove on.

 

We don’t realize understand how Covid19 spreads.

 

I didn’t realize what a good friend you were until you moved away.

 

I realized how to finish my homework as soon as possible quickly. I found a shortcut.

 

I realized why my computer wasn’t working.

 

At 2am, I suddenly realized that I had forgotten to take the garbage out.

 

 

Verbs:

think

know

understand

believe

feel

say

 

Let’s choose 10 vocab words for our quiz tomorrow:

1.    flu(n)

2.    sore(a)

3.    sick(a)

4.    finger(n)

5.    comfortable(a)

6.    cold(n,a)

7.    backache(n)

8.    bleeding(v)

9.    fever(n)

10.                       appointment(n)

 

middle ear infection

infection(n) infect(v) infected(a)

pus – white and yellow liquid from an infected cut, dead white blood cells

 

blood- red blood cells- carry oxgen

-white blood cells- fight infection

-platelets- stop bleeding

          -plasma – liquid part of the blood

 

 

 

Presentation #1- A Person in My Life Who I Admire

HW- Choose the person.

WRITTEN

Paragraph 1 – biographical information

Paragraph 2- why you admire them

 

Let’s start writing some rough drafts.

 

We can finish these in class tomorrow.

EF56 20class- paragraph review, Literary Terms

 English Foundations 5/6

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30

 

 

Today’s agenda

 

·      Review Test #2 paragraph

·      Noun clauses- Examples from KME

“NounclausesexamplesKME”

·      Begin “The Hockey Sweater”

“Literary Terms”

Choose vocab for tomorrow’s quiz

 

 

 

Wednesday

·      Quiz#4 – noun clauses

·      Continue with “The Hockey Sweater”

 

 

Thursday

·      Review Quiz#4 – noun clauses

 

 

Friday

·      Test#3 – paragraph about “The Hockey Sweater”

·      Xmas stuff

Bring snacks?

Have fun

 

 

 

Paragraph –

STRUCTURE

- ~150 words

-doublespace triplespace

-indent first word

-one good paragraph  four paragraphs, essay

 

PARTS OF A GOOD PARAGRAPH

Grabber

Clear topic sentence

3-4 supporting points

Concluding sentence

 

QUALITY OF THE SENTENCES

- simple, compound, complex

-punctuation

- verb form

 

Correction and rewriting – focus on rewriting your sentences into good simple, compound, and complex sentences.

Let’s do some work. Let’s struggle a bit. It’s the only way to get better.

 

 

English is a good language to connect people from all over the world.

English is a language for connecting people from around the world.

English is a language that connects people from around the world.

The English language provides a connection for people from different countries.

 

English is becoming the main language of business in many countries.

English has become the main language of business in many countries.

 

Good idea.

Challenge – expressing those ideas in authentic English.

authentic – real, true, natural-sounding

Your English is already good enough to have a good life in Canada.

We want to push to get our writing (phrasing, grammar) to a higher level for school.

 

 

 

“Literary Terms”

work of fiction - short story, novel, movie

 

characterize

mischaracterize somebody-

 

machine- anthropomorphized

anthropo – human being

morph- change

 

*protagonist –

‘pro’ - positive

progress, pro-democracy, promotion,

*antagonist-

‘anti’- against

antivaxxer, antibiotic, antisocial

 

She is her own worst enemy. You self-sabotage. He is self-defeating.

 

conflict – internal conflict “person vs themself”

 

stock characters in movie- background actors, extras

 

dynamic – changing

static – doesn’t move, change

 

PLOT

*exposition – show

establish setting

establish major characters

*rising action

 

 

 

Noun clauses-     verbs: think, know, understand, say

                               pronouns: that, why, how

10 vocab words for the quiz:

1.    punish(v)

2.    winter(n)

3.    uniform(n,a)

4.    famous(a)

5.    battle(n,v)

6.    hockey(n)

7.    childhood(n)

8.    season(n)

9.    sweater(n)

10.                       unfair(a)

 

Example

1.    think           season

Sarah thinks that summer is her favourite 

EF34 19 class- noun clauses

 

EF34

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 11:00.

 

Learning English is very good for your brain.

The more you exercise your brain, the healthier your brain will be as we get older.

Difficult mental work is excellent mental exercise.

 

dementia – Alzeimer’s Disease-

The higher your education is, the less chance of dementia.

education – does not have to college or university

                     -reading more

                     -learning a new language

                     -learning a new musical instrument

                     -learning a new sport- ping pong

                     -learning dancing

-watching video

 

 

Today’s agenda:

·      Special guest- Suphin EF6

·      Test#2- paragraph

·      Begin complex sentences- noun clauses

·      HW   Read Presentation #1 work

 

 

Tuesday

·      Continue complex sentences- noun clauses

·      Presentation #1 work

 

 

Wednesday

·      Quiz#4- noun clauses

 

 

Thursday

·      Presentations

 

 

Friday

·      Xmas story

·      Xmas movie

 

 

Test#2

Paragraph  - 100-125 words

                     - one block of writing, one paragraph

                     -doublespace

-write in pen

-name and class in upper righthand corner

 

STRUCTURE

Topic sentence

3-4 supporting points

Concluding sentence

 

Submit it to me by 12:25

 

TOPIC “What are some good ways to stay healthy?”

 

** BREAK UNTIL 12:30 **

 

I’ll try to get these back to you tomorrow.

 

 

Presentation #1 A Person In my Life Who I Admire

 

-admire, respect, look up to, appreciate, a role model

 

For homework tonight, choose the one person you want to talk about.

Tomorrow, we will start to do some writing.

 

 

 

Sentence styles:

SIMPLE

COMPOUND

COMPLEX

- adverb clauses

- noun clauses

- adjective clauses (after Xmas Break)

 

 

Noun clauses

 

-used with verbs that have to do with thinking or your mind:

‘think’, ‘know’, ‘understand’, ‘believe’, ‘realize’, ‘feel’

 

OTHERS ‘admit’, ‘mean’, ‘remember’, ‘forget’, ‘imagine’

 

-also verbs about speech: ‘say’ ‘whisper’, etc.

 

Other words that we use are these pronouns: that why how

 

 

 

 

 

A-list verbs: ‘think’ ‘know’ ‘understand’ ‘believe’ ‘realize’ ‘feel’ ‘say’

B-list pronouns: ‘that’ ‘why’ ‘how’

 

To write a noun clause take an “A” and put it with a “B” word.

 

- think + that

Sarah thinks that it will rain tonight.

I think that English is very important for newcomers to Canada.

I think that I can’t come tomorrow.  I don’t think that I can come tomorrow.

I think that I will get the book.

I think that I can fly.

Mike thinks that he did well on the test.

 

 

A-list verbs: ‘think’ ‘know’ ‘understand’ ‘believe’ ‘realize’ ‘feel’ ‘say’

B-list pronouns: ‘that’ ‘why’ ‘how’

 

*know why

Sarah knows why her sister is laughing.

We don’t know why food is so expensive.

We don’t know why the bus is late.

We don’t know why the baby is crying.

I don’t know why there is no light today the power is out.

 

* say that

Michelle said that she would bring cookies today.

The teacher said that we will have a test today.

He said that the rock is too heavy to move.

How can you say that? SIMPLE

Sara said that she can’t drive by take the bus.

My brother said that he will be president.

CONTINUE TOMORROW

 

 

EF56 19class- noun clauses

 

English Foundations 5/6

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30

 

 

Today’s agenda

·      Test #2 – paragraph

·      Continue with noun clauses

Go over your examples from homework

ESL Library noun clause sheets

 

 

 

·      Begin “The Hockey Sweater”

“Literary Terms”

 

 

Tuesday

·      Review Test #2 paragraph

·      Continue with “The Hockey Sweater”

Choose vocab for tomorrow’s quiz

 

 

Wednesday

·      Quiz#4 – noun clauses

 

 

Thursday

·       

 

 

Friday

·      Test#3 – paragraph about “The Hockey Sweater”

·      Xmas stuff

Bring snacks?

Have fun

 

 

 

Test#2

- paragraph

-150 words approximately

-one block of writing

-pen

-doublespace

-indent the first word

-name and class in upper righthand corner

 

STRUCTURE

Grabber

Topic sentence

Supporting sentences

Concluding sentence

 

Submit it to me by 9:45.

Make a plan first. Then write.

 

“Is English a global language? Why or why not?”

 

BREAK – back at 9:50

 

 

Grabber

Topic sentence

Supporting sentences

Concluding sentence

 

One paragraph!!

Not three, not four. It‘s not an essay.

essay – multigraph

doublespace  triplespace

 

I should be able to get these back to you tomorrow.

 

 

 

These are your examples from homework of sentences that have noun clauses:

 

1.    I know that you can buy a new car in this year. ?

2.    I don’t understand what you are saying.

3.    Sara didn’t think that it would snow today.

4.    I remember how you gave this work. Meaning?

5.    I do not know why he is behaving in a belligerent manner.

belligerent(adj) – wanting to argue or fight

 

6.    I do not know why most of the food products are rich/high in sugar.

7.    I believe that disappearing of covid-19 takes a couple of years. RW

I believe that it will a couple of years for Covid19 to disappear/ go away completely.

It will take two years for me to finish my program.

It will take two hours to fix your car.

 

8.    I realize that his computer has a major problem.

9.    I do not know what he is doing right now.

10.                       I forgot what you said to me last month.

11.                       I do not know how I can tackle/approach/handle/ solve/resolve this problem.

12.                       I was wondering how I could go there.

13.                       Mary’s mother thinks Mary is not choose the right person for her husband. RW

Mary’s mother thinks that Mary did not choose the right person for her husband.

14.                       I can’t understand why she forgive forgave/has forgiven her husband. simple past/present perfect

15.                       I  don’t think that stranger is a robber who looks noble and gentle . noun clause adj cl MOVE

I  don’t think that stranger who looks noble and gentle is a robber.

 

16.                       I think John why he angry why John is angry is because his  roommate damaged his computer. noun clause adverb cl

HARDER ONE!

 

I think why John is angry is because his roommate damaged his computer. 3 clauses- main clause, noun clause, adverb clause

 

 

17.                       I was wondering why my son don’t let me know he is planning a birthday party for me because he wants to give me a suprise.

I was wondering why my son didn’t let me know he is planning a birthday party for me because he wants to give me a surprise.

Keep it simple!

 

18.                       I think that shop is closed today.

19.                       I believe that beauty comes from inside not from outside .

20.                       The goverment should know that there are many people in the country who are homeless . noun cl adjective cl

21.                       I know that every one has a different personality .

22.                       I think that I have to go to school early.

23.                       I realized that there is a long holiday from next week.

24.                       I found out that a new electric car released of Hyundai to Canada. RW

I found out that there is a new electric car that was released by Hyundai in Canada. n cl  adj cl

 

25.                       He is wondering why some characters died when being alone in the horror movie.

26.                       I know why people have to make friends.

27.                       Mathew doesn’t like how it snows in Canada.

28.                       I can say that I could not study English hard. Meaning?

29.                       I forgot why I have to do my homework everyday.

30.                       I could believe how beautiful world this is. RW

I could can’t believe how beautiful this world is. Meaning?

I can’t beleive...  = I am surprised

 

31.                       I understood how difficult to solve mathematics. RW

I understood how difficult it was to solve mathematics.

 

32.                       Sara will understand why she could not go to university in a few years. vt? Meaning?

Sara understands why she can not go to university next year.

 

33.                       I don’t understand why you don’t try to adapt to new ways of life.

34.                       Maria  doesn’t know how the scientists predict the weather patterns.

35.                       I believe that the main goals for the corporations are lucrative to make money/a profit  ...to turn a profit.

His restaurant turned a profit in the first six months.

 

36.                       Lisa wonders what it would be like living without her husband.

37.                       Sarah believes that her husband is the most handsome man in the world; otherwise, she wouldn’t marry him.

38.                       Lisa wonders if her sister will come earlier earlytomorrow for dinner.  earlier than expected/ early

 

Math is harder for me. compared to what?

Math is harder than biology for me.

Math is hard for me.

 

39.                       Lisa doesn’t understand why her friend Marta doesn’t encourage her daughter to go to college.

40.                       I thought that I walked a lot, but the pedometer said only 1000 steps.

 

ped- feet

pedal on a bicycle

pedestrian

meter – measure

pedometer – measures how many steps you take

 

41.                       Tom remembered that it was difficult to cut the dog's nail when he saw it . 

42.                       I realized how the bell's vibration/vibration of the bell made me calm at the temple.

 

43.                       I can't believe how fast that it is almost the end of 2021.

44.                       The lady understands why she can't lose her weight in the at Christmas time.

45.                       I don’t think that you can get there on time.

46.                       I feel so wonderful that there were so many friends coming to who came to my birthday party.

47.                       Tom realized that the real life was more complicated than the myth story when he grew up. RW

When Tom grew up, he realized that real life was more complicated than children stories.

 

48.                       He  found out that this jacket had a good deal for on line shopping. RW

He  found out that there was a good deal online on/for this jacket.

 

49.                       He wondered why she wear wore/ was wearing a dress in winter. vt

clothing-  present progressive verb

She is wearing a nice sweater today.

 

50.                       My mother said that she will take a trip to Tokyo next week.

51.                       Michael doesn’t know why  they cancelled the hiking plan on/for Saturday.

52.                       I think that I will not graduate this year.

53.                       I realize that you were lying to me.

54.                       I don’t know why he is angry today.

55.                       I like how you play basketball.

56.                       Ms. Laura says/said that I will not be in on the soccer team.

57.                       I understand why you like carrots.

58.                       I can’t believe how you treated you own sister like that.

59.                       Sharlotte forgets/forgot why she didn’t answer my call.

60.                       I find out that my friend is in love with my brother.

61.                        I wonder why they didn’t choose me.

62.                       I think that next year is going to be the best year.

63.                       I don’t know why she didn’t come to pick up her parents from church today.

64.                       I don’t understand why she doesn't talk to me.

65.                       I think that we must respect to elder elderly people.

Marta respects elderly people.

Marts shows respect to the elderly/ seniors.

elderly        – one foot in the grave

                    - knocking on heaven’s door

         

66.                       I don’t know why my cat was sick.

67.                       I understand why my sister canceled her trip.

68.                       I forget why I left my key at home. Meaning?

69.                       I realize that my friend liked to drink a coffee.

I realize that my friend likes to drink coffee.

 

70.                       My father found out that he should change his car oil the oil in his car.

 

Excellent work!