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Critical Reading and Writing Exam time: 24-7 at 9:00. Midterm Review. Weeks Two and Three- Names. Scanning Capitalize proper nouns Simple present tense He she it get s He she it doe s not get Contractions Final punctuation
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Critical Reading and WritingExam time: 24-7 at 9:00 Midterm Review
Weeks Two and Three- Names • Scanning • Capitalize proper nouns • Simple present tense • He she it gets • He she it does not get • Contractions • Final punctuation • Assignments: What is a good name? wk1=‘C’ p21 hand in, wk2=rewrite ‘C’ in notebook • Vocabulary • Attention Relative Choose Popular • Generation Sound Connect Similar • Product Company Create • Tradition Describe
Week Four - Jobs (chapter 2) • Nouns (objects or ideas) and verbs (action or existence) • Complete sentences (subject and verb) • Verbs + infinitives (like, want, need + to verb) • Assignment: Write about a good job (C p39) • Sentences begin with a capital letter • Final punctuation • Sentences have subject and verb • Subject and verb agree (‘s’ verb form with he, she, or it) • Like, want, need are used correctly • Vocabulary Career Skill Pay Creative Decision Success Plan Flexible Duty Tour Solve Regular Result Outside
Week Five – Immigration (chapter 3) • Reading skill: skimming. Notice paragraph structure, TS CS. • Word roots: nat, pop, fac, migra • Connecting sentences • Use ‘and’ to give more information, precede with comma and space • Use ‘or’ to give opposite or different information, precede with comma and space • ‘There’ plus ‘is’, ‘are’, ‘was’ or ‘were’ plus noun phrase • Assignment: Write about a place that changes • Vocabulary Community Mix Foreign Market Support International Million Lonely Neighborhood Own Opportunity Several Population Worldwide
Week Six – Positive Thinking • Making inferences • Phrasal verbs • Verb plus adverb or preposition • Different meaning from verb alone • Simple past tense • Regular verbs (verb plus ed or d) • Irregular verbs • Negative = did not + base verb • Time order words • Assignment: Write about positive thinking. Use time order. • Vocabulary Attitude Expect Likely Event Find out Wild Farm Give up Wise Government Run away Knowledge Send Nation Work out War
Week Seven – Vacation (chapter 5) • Charts and graphs • Compound nouns • First noun acts like adjective • Adjective (first noun) can not be plural • Paragraph structure • Pay careful attention to the example paragraph on p 94 • Topic sentence (indent first sentence) • Supporting sentences • Concluding sentences • Sentences with because (introduces the reason) • No comma when because is in mid-sentence • Use pronoun in second part of sentence • Assignment: Write about how many vacation days you need • Vocabulary Employee Compete Average Experience Discover Bored Policy Improve Schedule Produce Stress Reduce Relax Review