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Danny Martin 2017
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PLAN
// The mindmap and visualising plan / 5 minutes
// Subject - Verb Agreement / 15 mins
// Quiz / 5 mins
// All the main units of grammar / 10 mins
// Top Trumps / 10 minutes
// Let's write some stuff / 10 mins
// REST / 5 minutes at least!
// Part two - Let's plan an essay!
// Review the syllabus / 5 minutes
// What do you already know? / 5 minutes
// What interests you? / 5 minutes
// Topic creation / 15 minutes
// How to start research / 10 minutes
Subject -verb
ALL PARTS OF SENTENCES SHOULD AGREE
A SUBJECT IS A THING OR PERSON AND THE VERB IS WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THAT THING OR PERSON.
Subject -verb
Video
WAIT...
This can get complicated when the subject and verb are "interrupted"
Is this right? What is the subject and verb?
"Mary, as well as her sisters, are going to the summer camp."
ARE IS A LINKING VERB
A FEW TO TRY
"When I go shopping, I always takes a cloth bag to put my groceries in."
"One hundred miles is a long distance to drive. "
LET's DO A QUIZ!
WORD TYPES
TOP TRUMPS TIME
WORD TYPES
CONCRETE
VS
ABSTRACT NOUNS
http://www.cybergrammar.co.uk/tests_word_classes.php
WRITE
Let's spin my roulette wheel!
REST
Label 1
REST
Label 2
Label 3
Review of week one
A SUBJECT IS A THING OR PERSON....A VERB IS
IF WE HAVE A SINGULAR SUBJECT (DOG) DOES THE SINGULAR VERB END IN 'S OR NOT?
WHAT ABOUT A PLURAL SUBJECT (DOGS)?
WORKSHEET
WEEK 2
- Review of last week - 10 mins
- Sentences PT.1 - Types/Clauses - 30 mins
- Writing roulette - 15 mins
- Break
- Sentences PT.2 - Run-on/FANBOYS - 25 Mins
- Academic phrasing - 15 mins
- Summary - 5 mins
- Writing roulette - 10 mins
- Essay writing - 2 x 15 mins
Sentences pt.1
"a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command, and consisting of a main clause and sometimes one or more subordinate clauses."
TYPES OF SENTENCES
TYPES OF SENTENCES
SIMPLE
COMPOUND
COMPLEX
COMPOUND - COMPLEX
VID & LET'S QUIZ!
http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/multi/satzType.htm
CLAUSES
CLAUSES
Clauses come in four types: main [or independent], subordinate [or dependent], adjective [or relative], and noun. Every clause has at least a subject and a verb. Other characteristics will help you distinguish one type of clause from another.
RELATIVE
A relative clause will begin with a relative pronoun [such as who, whom, whose, which, or that] or a relative adverb [when, where, or why].
Whom Mrs. Russell hit in the head with a chalk eraser
Whom = relative pronoun; Mrs. Russell = subject; hit = verb.
Where he chews and drools with great enthusiasm
Where = relative adverb; he = subject; chews, drools = verbs.
Can you work out what these sentences could look like?
NOUN
Any clause that functions as a noun becomes a noun clause. Look at this example:
You really do not want to know the ingredients in Aunt Nancy's stew.
Ingredients = noun.
If we replace the noun ingredients with a clause, we have a noun clause:
You really do not want to know what Aunt Nancy adds to her stew.
What Aunt Nancy adds to her stew = noun clause.
Over to you - what is the subject and verb here:
1. Whichever restaurant you pick is fine with me.
2. My greatest asset is that I am a hard worker. (what word is our attention drawn to here?)
subordinate
A subordinate clause will follow this pattern:
Subordinate Conjunction + Subject + Verb = Incomplete Thought.
Here are some examples:
Whenever lazy students whine
Whenever = subordinate conjunction; students = subject; whine = verb.
As cola spilled over the glass and splashed onto the counter
As = subordinate conjunction; cola = subject; spilled, splashed = verbs.
LET'S PLAY POINTLESS!
SENTENCES PT.2
Common Mistakes - Run-On/Using Fanboys incorrectly!
SENTENCES PT.2
RUN-ON SENTENCES
RUN-ON SENTENCES
A RUN-ON SENTENCE (sometimes called a "fused sentence") has at least two parts, either one of which can stand by itself (in other words, two independent clauses), but the two parts have been smooshed together instead of being properly connected.
It is important to realize that the length of a sentence really has nothing to do with whether a sentence is a run-on or not; being a run-on is a structural flaw that can plague even a very short sentence:
The sun is high, put on some sunblock.
Danny ran fast, the dog was chasing him.
Let's review this closer!
OK - Quiz time - https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/quizshow.php?title=runons-comma-splices-fragments&q=5&next=y
FANBOYS
FANBOYS
This is an acronym for rembering the seven coordinating conjunctions in the English language.
You try...
Frank Baum wrote The Wizard of Oz for his daughter, ______ the book was much more than a child's story.
Baum's book is a political allegory, _____ few people today would recognize the original events in this story.
The Wizard of Oz is a story of economic reform, ________ Oz is short for ounce and referred to the gold standard, _______ the characters represented groups in American society.
Baum's original readers did not fail to recognize William McKinley as the bumbling wizard, ________ did they fail to recognize William Jennings Bryan as the cowardly lion.
ACAMEDIC PHRASING
WEEK 3
- Review of Week Two (10 Mins) - PPT Clauses/Sheet
- Determiners (10 mins)
- Modifiers (5 Minutes)
- Nouns PT.2 (10 Minutes)
- Phrases (15 Minutes)
- Break (5 minutes)
- Active vs Passive (15 Minutes)
- Pointless (15 Minutes)
- Academic Writing - let's jazz up some sentences! (10 minutes)
- Top Trumps
Determiners
Determiners are words placed in front of a noun to make it clear what the noun refers to.
Determiner PPT
Modifiers
Modifiers are words, phrases, or clauses that provide description in sentences. Modifiers allow writers to take the picture that they have in their heads and transfer it accurately to the heads of their readers. Essentially, modifiers breathe life into sentences. Take a look at this "dead" sentence:
Stephen dropped his fork.
Now read what several well placed modifiers can do:
Poor Stephen, who just wanted a quick meal to get through his three-hour biology lab, quickly dropped his fork on the cafeteria tray, gagging with disgust as a tarantula wiggled out of his cheese omelet, a sight requiring a year of therapy before Stephen could eat eggs again.
WAIT THOUGH!
A Misplaced, or dangling modifier can ruin all that hard work!
WAIT THOUGH!
NOUNS PT.2
We have looked at concrete and abstract nouns, let's examine common nouns vs proper nouns:
A common noun is a noun which names general items. Proper nouns name SPECIFIC things.
burger = common (what could a proper noun be?)
country = common noun (what could a proper noun be?)
If Walmart is the proper noun, what is the common?
Collective nouns
Collective nouns are words for single things that are made up of more than one person, animal, place, thing, or idea. You can’t have a team without individual members; even so, we discuss a team as a single entity. What is the collective noun here:
Keys, marbles, and rubber bands were just a few of the things in the pile of objects in his drawer.
PHRASES
A phrase is a group of related words within a sentence that complements the overall structure of sentence. A phrase lacks both the subject and the object. Hence, a phrase cannot stand alone to give complete meaning.
Wait, whats the difference between a phrase and a clause?
PHRASES
ADJECTIVAL PHRASE
A phrase that acts likes an adjective in a sentence is called adjective phrase (or adjectival). Like an adjective it modifies (adds to meaning of) a noun or a pronoun. It comprises of adjectives, modifiers and other words modifying the noun or pronoun. What nouns are the adjectival phrases here modifying?
She bought a beautiful brown chair
A lady with long, blond hair is walking in the garden
Tough one > Grass-fed organic beef is the best choice.
ADVERBIAL PHRASE
A phrase that acts like an adverb in a sentence is called adverb phrase. Like an adverb, it modifies (add to meaning of) a verb or other adverb in the sentence. It contains an adverb and other words (i.e. noun, preposition, modifiers) which, as a whole, act as an adverb phrase.
Adverb = describes a verb i.e. Sean quickly runs away
What verbs are the below phrases modifying?
He drives the car at a very fast speed
The kid sat beside her Mother
NOUN PHRASE
A noun phrase includes a noun—a person, place, or thing—and the modifiers which distinguish it.
You can find the noun dog in a sentence, for example, but you don't know which canine the writer means until you consider the entire noun phrase: that dog, Aunt Audrey's dog, the dog on the sofa, the neighbor's dog that chases our cat, the dog digging in the new flower bed.
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/clause-phrase-and-sentence/noun-phrase
ACTIVE VS PASSIVE
Let's get active!
ACTIVE VS PASSIVE
ACADEMIC WRITING
ENHANCEMENT
CLARITY
ARGUMENT
DIALOGUE
WEEK 4
- Review of EVERYTHING so far (30 minutes)
- Comprehension basics PT.1 (15 Minutes)
BREAK!
- The Extended Metaphor - how to add spark to research papers (1 hr)
THE REVIEW OF EVERYTHING!
These are grammar flashcards - but they are rubbish grammar flashcards! Can you put the match the element of grammar up to the definition.
hint. start with ones you are certain of first!
POETRY COMPREHENSION
Why do we teach comphrehension?
POETRY COMPREHENSION
"Dulce Et Decorum Est" (1914)
by Wilfred Owen
What is the first question we may need to ask in order to understand this poem?
"It is honourable to die"
LET'S EXAMINE THIS POEM CLOSELY
Underline any metaphors and similes in yellow
Any sensory imagery in green!
What effect do these have?
LET'S EXAMINE THIS POEM CLOSELY
Questions...
THE EXTENDED METAPHOR
First, what do you think an extended Metaphor is?
THE EXTENDED METAPHOR
The term extended metaphor refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. It is often comprised of more than one sentence and sometimes consists of a full paragraph.
NOW....
NOW....
Imagine we were trying to create an extended Metaphor about love, what objects could we use? What things symbolise love?
Could we use an onion?
VIDEO
WEEK 5
This week, we will be looking at tenses and conditionals:
- Tenses - 30 minutes
- Conditionals - 15 minutes
- BREAK - 5 Minutes
- Monopoly!
Present simple
Present continuous
Present continuous
PAST CONTINUOUS
PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS
FUTURE PERFECT
WEEK 6
- Discuss the HW strategy / 15 mins
- Verb Tenses / 30 mins
- Past Tenses
- Present Tenses
- Verb Tenses PT.2 / 20 Mins
- Future Tenses
BREAK
- When verbs get irregular! / 20 mins
- Verb Tenses PT.3 / 20 mins
- Exercises and Reflection
- HW Plan for next week / 15 mins
THE PAST TENSE
Past Simple // action took place in the past, mostly connected with an expression of time RULE: Infinitive verb + ed
e.g. I played football yesterday
Past Perfect // Refers to a time earlier than before now. It is used to make it clear that one event happened before another in the past RULE: had + past participle
e.g He was very tired, because he had played football all day
THE PAST TENSE
Past Perfect Continous // How long something happened before somehting else happened RULE: had + been + infinitive + ing
e.g I had been playing football for one hour
when my friends arrived.
THE PRESENT TENSE
Present Simple // RULE: I/We/She/He +
The Infinitive (base) verb
Eg. I play / he plays
THE PRESENT TENSE
Present Perfect // RULE: has or have followed by a verb ending in -ed or -en
e.g. I have played / Sean has played
Present Continous // RULE: am or is or are followed by a verb ending in -ing
e.g. Sean is playing / I am playing
Let's play Charades!
THE FUTURE TENSE
Will be/ Going to // RULE: I/We/She/He +
the infinitive or am, is, are + infinitive
Eg. I will play football / he is going to play
Future Continuous // An action will be in progress at a certain time in the future. This action has begun before the certain time RULE: will+be+infinitive+ing
e.g. I will be playing football
THE FUTURE TENSE
Future Perfect // Something will have happened before a certain time in the future RULE: will+have+past participle+ed
e.g. Sean will have played football
Writing Task!
IRREGULAR VERBS
HW PLAN!
WEEK 7
- Clauses - Sean to Teach (15 mins)
- Clauses -
BREAK
- Increasing Vocabulary - 5 mins
- Magoosh - 15 Minutes
- Scrabble - 20 Minutes
- Word Association Trees - 15 Minutes
WEEK 8
WEEK 8
- SPEECHHHH (20 minutes)
Today is creative writing day!
- How can creative writing help our academic writing game? (5 mins)
- Short Descriptive task (5 minutes)
- The Keys to Creative Writing (5 minutes)
- Utopia Task intro (15 minutes)
BREAK
- Utopia Task (50 minutes)
WHY WRITE CREATIVELY?
- You think of yourself as an author
WHY WRITE CREATIVELY?
- You increase your vocabulary
- You learn to control sentences
- You automatically write to persuade
- You consider context
WARM UP TASK
Think of ten words you could use that do NOT describe the character of Katniss Everdeen. Be ready to back-up your ideas!
WARM UP TASK
INGREDIENTS OF CREATIVE WORK
- A Metaphor is a term of phrase that is used to compare two things that aren't alike but have somehting in common
- A Simile is like metaphor but has either "as" or "like" in it - it is not a direct comparison
- Personification is giving an inaminate object human attributes
- Sensory Language
- Alliteration
- Symbolism
WARM UP TASK 2!
Using the list of techniques we just came up with - how could we describe this image?
WARM UP TASK 2!
What is a utopian Society?
what do you think the opposite is?
Today you will be planning a piece of creative writing on YOUR Utopian society!
WEEK 9
Sean's Story - 20 minutes
Clauses Intro - 10 minutes
Subordinate Poetry! - 20 minutes
5 Minute BREAK
Conditionals and Tense Pt.2 - 60 minutes
CLAUSES
http://prezi.com/jfjz61ddnfy0/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
CLAUSES
SUBORDINATE CLAUSE POETRY
- You must write two stanzas of five lines each
- The first four lines of each stanza must begin with a word from the list of subordinators and cannot be a complete sentence
- Sentence order = subordinator - subject - verb
SUBORDINATE CLAUSE POETRY
- The last line must be a complete sentence and cannot begin with a subordinator
EXAMPLE
Whenever I get up,
After the alarm clock has gone off,
Before the sun comes up,
As I stumble to the shower,
I slowly get ready for my day of school.
When I arrive at school,
As I am talking to my friends,
Before classes begin,
While I do my work,
I long to be back in my cozy bed.
WEEK 10
- Discussion of Plan Moving Forward (15 minutes)
- Organise Materials (15 mins)
- Aristotles' Appeals (30 mins)
Break
- Aristotle's appeals PT.2 (15 mins)
- Danny's Voluminious Vocabulary Builder (30 mins)
PLAN
- Is there anything missing?
- What are you excited about doing more of?
- How do you feel about the discussion time?
PLAN
ARISTOTLE'S APPEALS
PARAPHRASING
WEEK 11
- Sean's Presentation
- Comprehension Exercise
- Walk to UVic
- Begin Research!
Ernest Hemingway - a modernist
Ernest Hemingway - a modernist
Modernist literature came into its own due to increasing industrialization and globalization. New technology and the horrifying events of both World Wars (but specifically World War I) made many people question the future of humanity: What was becoming of the world?
- Fear
- Uncertainty
- Existentialism
- Loss
HEMINGWAY'S ICEBERG PRINCIPLE
HEMINGWAY'S ICEBERG PRINCIPLE
First off, tell me the one most important fact that most people know about icebergs, which is particularly relevant if you are sailing near them or in areas where there are icebergs.
"Show the readers everything....tell them nothing"
The following is the shortest story Hemingway every wrote....as I write it, can you predict what the story is going to be about?
LET'S READ...
LET'S READ...
but first, what question do we need to ask straight away based on the title?
WEEK 12
- Sean's Presentation (20 mins)
- Paraphrasing - finding your own voice (15 minutes)
- Grammar in a resume!
- Discuss the Next Project (10 minutes)
Finding your voice
Finding your voice
The purpose of paraphrasing is re-writing an idea in your own words, without losing the meaning.
Therefore, it is important to find your own "voice" - often, great paraphrasing is finding a way to say something using more concrete, direct words.
Let's unpack and paraphrase this sentence:
"Among the symptomatic manifestations of a schizophrenic condition is the occurrence of hallucinations of an auditory or visual nature."
ACTIVE - PASSIVE VOICE
GRammar in a resume!
- Action-Verb Result
- For how long, how many, how much?
- Keeping it past tense!
- To punctuate or not punctuate!