Here is the Power Point that I made after our lesson about the Alphabet:
The Alphabet
I hope that you remember to use capital letters at the front of Sentences and Names!
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Friday, 2 May 2014
The Alphabet
Dear FEP Class
Here is the Power Point that I made after our lesson about the Alphabet:
Here is the Power Point that I made after our lesson about the Alphabet:
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Pronouns
Dear FEP students
Here is the Power Point presentation that we made in class yesterday. Well done to all of you for making it great.
You can have a look at it here:
Here is the Power Point presentation that we made in class yesterday. Well done to all of you for making it great.
You can have a look at it here:
PRONOUNS
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Monday, 28 April 2014
The Gingerbread Man
Dear FEP Students
Yesterday we read the story of The Gingerbread Man. It is a lovely story and here is a video of it that you can watch at home:
Try to remember all of the types of animals in the story.
Yesterday we read the story of The Gingerbread Man. It is a lovely story and here is a video of it that you can watch at home:
Try to remember all of the types of animals in the story.
Monday, 13 May 2013
New Blog
Dear DGHS Girls
This blog will remain in place and I will continue to update it for the foreseeable future. The new content will be more grammar-based and will deal with English in action and conversational English though - not much literature now.
You can drop by at this address: http://gaddthailand.blogspot.com/ every now and then to see what I am doing in Thailand.
Love
Miss Gadd
This blog will remain in place and I will continue to update it for the foreseeable future. The new content will be more grammar-based and will deal with English in action and conversational English though - not much literature now.
You can drop by at this address: http://gaddthailand.blogspot.com/ every now and then to see what I am doing in Thailand.
Love
Miss Gadd
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Vitally Important Information for Everyone!
Dear English classes
While we learn a lot of English in Room 3-15, the point of all of this furious work is to prepare you for life.
School focusses a lot of attention on exams but no-one gives you a test to write when you are at work.
How can you better prepare yourselves for life, which is, after all, the point of school?
Have a look at these articles and bits of advice. The first article is about succeeding at university, but a lot of it applies to life as well.
Education
Secrets of the Most Successful College Students
This next article looks very intimidating but it is not!
In this article Mr Mike Brown, the CEO of Nedbank discusses a number of issues in a radio interview that was conducted on the Market Update on SAFM (listen every day at 6pm). Most of the interview is not very relevant to you but the LAST question is. Scroll to the bottom of the interview to see what one of the most successful men in the country says to young people like you!
http://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-safm-market-update/r-885
While we learn a lot of English in Room 3-15, the point of all of this furious work is to prepare you for life.
School focusses a lot of attention on exams but no-one gives you a test to write when you are at work.
How can you better prepare yourselves for life, which is, after all, the point of school?
Have a look at these articles and bits of advice. The first article is about succeeding at university, but a lot of it applies to life as well.
Education
Secrets of the Most Successful College Students
This next article looks very intimidating but it is not!
In this article Mr Mike Brown, the CEO of Nedbank discusses a number of issues in a radio interview that was conducted on the Market Update on SAFM (listen every day at 6pm). Most of the interview is not very relevant to you but the LAST question is. Scroll to the bottom of the interview to see what one of the most successful men in the country says to young people like you!
http://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-safm-market-update/r-885
Sunday, 17 March 2013
Grammar for Everyone!
Dear Classes
I have been reviewing Errors of Concord with my Grade 10 classes but here is a review of it for everyone.
An error of concord is when you create a sentence that grammatically disagrees with itself:
"He are a student." "Are" is the verb that should be used with "we, you, they" not "he."
Our biggest problem with concord is the following sentence: "There's many prizes to be won!"
"There's" is "There IS," "is" is the verb form used for the singular "he/she/it" but many prizes are precisely that: MANY prizes. So your sentence is not in concord with itself - it grammatically suggests a single prize but the words suggest many prizes.
The upshot is that you make no sense - oh dear!
Here are two songs that have errors of concord, can you identify them?
Here is a video imitating the Timbaland video.
Parody is "an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect"
Satire is "the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues"
These definitions are courtesy of: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/
Is this video a parody or a satire?
I have been reviewing Errors of Concord with my Grade 10 classes but here is a review of it for everyone.
An error of concord is when you create a sentence that grammatically disagrees with itself:
"He are a student." "Are" is the verb that should be used with "we, you, they" not "he."
Our biggest problem with concord is the following sentence: "There's many prizes to be won!"
"There's" is "There IS," "is" is the verb form used for the singular "he/she/it" but many prizes are precisely that: MANY prizes. So your sentence is not in concord with itself - it grammatically suggests a single prize but the words suggest many prizes.
The upshot is that you make no sense - oh dear!
Here are two songs that have errors of concord, can you identify them?
Here is a video imitating the Timbaland video.
Parody is "an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect"
Satire is "the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues"
These definitions are courtesy of: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/
Is this video a parody or a satire?
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