Exercises for first class

Exercises

Quotations, Semicolons, Colons, Simple Sentences,

Passive

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Exercise: Write out the sentence

Colon, Semi-colon, Quotation

Marks

Holy cow, batman!


Batman watch… OUT!


Marks

Exercise

Batman, did you say, “I need to go to the bathroom?”


Marks


Batman, I’m getting hungry.


Marks


Colon, Semi-colon, Quotation Marks

• Shopping list of things we need– potatoes– onions– oranges– rice– kimchi



• Capital cities

DC Seoul

Beijing


Exercise

• Capital cities

DC, United States Seoul, South Korea

Beijing, China



• People that ate the cake– Juan –Mary– Jonathan, who had just eaten another

cake



• Things that happened– I ate my lunch.– She came to my house.–We went for a walk.

Exercise: Fix the sen-tence

• I left my iPhone in the bathroom by mistake. When I went back, it wasn’t there anymore. Someone must have taken my it. Passive Sentences

Passive Sentences


• More and more teachers in the US are teaching the Chinese language to stu-dents.

• People in France love their language.• People in France had loved their lan-

guage.• People in Korea are incorporating more

and more foreign words into Korean.• In Venezuela, people are reclaiming

their pride in the Spanish language.


• We will not comment at this point who our suspects are. At this mo-ment, we will merely disclose those facts which have been confirmed. Someone robbed the house at 1 AM in the morning.

Passive Sentences

Passive Sentences


• The Vietnam War started in Novem-ber 1, 1955 and ended in April 30, 1975. South Vietnam and the fought on one side, and on the other side fought North Vietnam, China, and other communist countries on the other side. On April 30, 1975, the North Vietnamese won and the US retreated out of Vietnam.

Simple Sentences

ExerciseEating at restaurants all the time

confused by the news

The bride and groom were , he realized how much he missed his wife.

Tired of all the bad news , Janet suddenly turned off the news.

The people were after the long run.

After the long run happiest of all.

Eating alone at the restaurant costs a lot of money.

John fell asleep , Johnny fell asleep immediately.

Scared to hear the truth , Jackson turned off the television.

Tired after the long run , John fell asleep.

Exercises for first class

News & Politics

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