Bellringers 146-150

1. Bellringers 146-150 Bellringers for all classes

2. Bellringer # 146 • 1. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December seventh, 1941. • 2. 33 Japanese ships near Oahu launched 100’s of airplanes. • 3. More than 1,000,000 Americans were killed or wounded in the following years of the war. • Corrections: 1) 7, 1941 2) Thirty-three, hundreds 3) one million

3. Bellringer # 147 • 1. In English, it is necessary that irregular verbs are memorized. • 2. If I was making up a language, I’d insist that each verb is regular. • 3. I wish that was the case in English. • Corrections: change are to be 2) change was to were and is to be 3) change was to were

4. Bellringer # 148 • 1. “Even if a toddler’s vocabulary is very limited”, said my mother, “There’s one word it is sure to contain.” • 2. I asked “what that word is.” • 3. “Mine, said Mom. “Every two-year-old seems to know that one”. • Corrections: 1) limited,” said my mother, “there’s… 2) no quotes 3) ‘Mine,” said Mom. “Every … one.”

5. Bellringer # 149 • 1. I’d like to visit a place where they speak a different language from the one I speak. • 2. I wrote to a friend who has moved to Japan, but she hasn’t answered it. • Corrections: 1) change they to people 2) take out it

6. Bellringer # 150 • 1. Some people can mimic an accent well, others can’t. • 2. My friend Charlene has never been to England, however she can sound as if she had been born there. • Corrections: 1) well; 2) England; however,