Transcript Bartending Basics

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Elephant Painting
Welcome to English
Composition
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Review of Last Class
• Discussed Course Objectives,
Expectations, Basic Operations, and
Resources
• What makes a great course?
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Writing Progression
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Week 1 = grammar
Week 2 = grammar
Week 3 = thesis statement & project plan
Week 4 = outline
Week 5 = 1st draft
Week 6 = revised draft
Week 7 = edited draft
Week 8 = final draft
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Today’s Objectives
Proper Sentence Structure
• Identify the components of a basic sentence.
• Identify the four most serious writing errors.
Verb Problems
• Define subject–verb agreement.
• Identify how to avoid mistakes in verb tense.
• Explain when to use each tense.
Writing Activity
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Sharing Your Writing
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Seven Basic Parts of Speech
1. Nouns
– Person, place or thing
– What are some nouns RVTs use?
2. Pronouns
– Refer to nouns
– he, she, it, they, us, I, we, you, him, her
3. Verbs
– Action of the sentence
– What are some verbs RVTs use?
Seven Basic Parts of Speech
4. Adjectives
– Modify (describe) nouns
– Mean cat. Other adjectives?
5. Adverbs
– Modify (describe) verb
– The old cat walked slowly
6. Conjunctions
– A word that links words, phrases, or clauses
– FANBOYS
7. Prepositions
– Anywhere you can go
– On, in, around, under, etc.
Valid Sentences
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Sit!
Dogs sit.
The dogs sit quietly.
The dogs on the riverbank sit quietly under
the warm March sun.
• Waiting patiently for their owners to return,
the dogs on the riverbank sit quietly under
the warm March sun.
Four most serious writing errors
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Subject Verb Agreement issues
Verb forms and tenses
Fragments
Run-ons
4 Present Verb Tenses - time
• the simple present ("I go ________")
• the present progressive
("I am going ________")
• the present perfect
("I have gone ________")
• the present perfect progressive
(I’Il have been going ________")
Past Verb Tenses - time
• the simple past ("I went ________")
• the past progressive
("I was going ________")
• the past perfect
("I had gone ________")
• the past perfect progressive
("I had been going ________")
Future Verb Tenses - time
• the simple future
("I will go ________")
• the future progressive
("I will be going ________")
• the future perfect
("I will have gone ________")
• the future perfect progressive
("I will have been going ________")
Board Race!
Fill in the blank with words of these types in
this sequence.
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adjective
noun
verb
adverb
preposition
(article?) noun
conjunction
Pronoun
verb
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Subject-Verb Agreement
• Online, interactive exercise at
www.chompchomp.com on subjectverb agreement
Wrap-up
• Reviewed verb tenses
• Reviewed subject-verb
agreement and nouns
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Assignments
• Non-graded: practice your subject-verb
agreement and verb tenses
• www.chompchomp.com for grammar
review
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Questions?
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Thank you for participating!
See you tomorrow!
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