Last Week's Writing Class

 

We have to do one writing assignment

every semester. It is worth 10% of your final grade.

Writing Class

Instructions: Answer each question with a sentence in English. Write the sentence now. Write down your partner’s answer. We have to do one writing

each semester. Let’s do the writing now.

Please do not use pencil. Use pen. This is not math class. We have ten answers.

We write 10 sentences. Then we write two paragraphs.  

1.                      What is your English first and last name?

2.                      Where do you come from? What is your hometown?

3.                      How often do you look at your phone?

4.                      How often do you go online?

5.                      Do you think you are wasting time online or is it useful? Explain?

6.                      What is your favorite app?

7.                      Why do you enjoy this app?

8.                      Do you ever play video games? If you do, what games do you like?

Explain.

9.                      What is an app you liked before but do not like now?

10.             How do you think the Internet will change in the future?

Social media

 

 

Awesome: great, fantastic, very good, wonderful, I like it, etc.

A bit: a little

Stew: soup, usually with meat

Shame: bad, disappointing

Random: without reason, not “on purpose”

Allergic: itchy skin

 

For example:

 

I talked to Judge Yi. He comes

 

from Hualien. Judge uses the Internet

 

every day. He looks at his phone

 

constantly because he worries about

 

what people think about him or what

 

they are doing. His favorite app is 13

 

Thread.

 

We will write two paragraphs. Each paragraph is five sentences. Remember to indent and double space.

For example:

 

 

I talked to Jay Chang today. He comes

from Hsinchu. I looks at his phone every

hour. He goes online constantly. He

thinks it is a big waste of time because

he never studies or does housework. He

really loves Facebook because that app

more popular with young people.

 

 

Five sentences in every paragraph. Do not use pencil.

 

T.G.I.F.    Thank God It’s Friday

Class & Period: 10:10, Friday

Major

Room No.: 201

Teacher: Patrick Cowsill

Topic: Writing Class

Could you please repeat that?

How do you spell            ?

Males: boys

Random

Stew: soup, with meat

Spicy hot pot

Awesome is great.

We have to do

Bland: not a lot of flavor or strong taste

Rice, water, bread, chowder

 

 

 

Last Week's Notes: English Class

 

Big Mac and French Fries (above)

1. I can’t believe how packed this place is:

A lot of customers, a lot of people, crowded, etc.

2. Grand opening: first day for a business, the

company just opened, you can get some free stuff

3. Extreme: serious, hard work, too much, etc.

4. Sweets: dessert, candy, etc.

5. Random: not “on purpose”

Decreasing: less and less

Consumption: means to eat or drink

I consumed some coffee this morning.

In order to: because

Mighty: very, great, strong, excellent, etc.

 

Featured: emphasized, shown, etc.

I feel a little guilty.

 

This class is NOT an elective. This is a req. You must take English.

 

 

It’s 11 sharp. Exactly

 

Refrigerator: Fridge

Beverage: drink

Vampires do NOT like garlic.

 

Declining: refuse or say you do not want it

Hindus (in India) don’t eat beef.

Muslims and Jews don’t eat pork or

shellfish.

Clams, oysters, shrimp . . .

 

If you are allergic to food, usually it

makes your skin itchy.

 

“I don’t care for” is a polite, friendly

gentle way

to refuse food, say you don’t want food,

or decline food and beverages.

 

When it is exactly 2:00, we say

2:00 sharp.

 

 

1. Diagonal

2. Vertical

3. Horizontal

4. Backward(s)

The elephant in Chinese Chess moves diagonally.

Top, left corner.

If he/she says “yes” with a sentence, write down

his/her name. If he/she says “no” with a sentence,

do NOT write down his/her name.

Can’t stand: hate, don’t like…

The waiter or waitress will ask you in a restaurant:

 

How do you like your steak (cooked)?

1 minute for cooking a steak: blue

3 minutes: rare     bloody

4 minutes: medium rare     red

5 minutes: medium         pink

7 minutes: medium well       Tastes like eating a shoe

10 minutes: well done           Tastes like eating burnt wood

 

Wax apple

 

Fast food

 

Listening Practice:

Could you please repeat that?

How do you spell      ?

 

eat   ate   eaten     cost     coast

 

Popular     Ronald McDonald

Arrive: first come

 

 

 

 

 

 

popular Fast food restaurant

 

 

 

 

 

Who had eggs for breakfast?

 

Who wants onions on their burger?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ronald McDonald

Big Macs   Cost    Coast

Class Rules Spring

 

 

Rules for grades. My class is easy if

you come. If you do not come,

you will fail this class. If you do come,

you will pass this class. I will tell you

why.

 

10% Writing: Unit 10 Technology

10% Video    10/10       0/10

30% Final Exam

10% Midterm Exam

30% Homework and Classwork  30%/30%

10/10 This will encourage you to come

to class.

10% Attendance (come to class)

For every hour you do not come

to class, I subtract 1% (-1%).

If you miss nine hours, you fail

this class.

We are studying food.

Do not sleep in the class. This

is NOT your bedroom. I will minus 5% for

sleeping.

 

Ideal: perfect, great, wonderful, etc.

Diet: the food we eat

I want to go on a diet: Lose weight

Dairy: from a cow and eggs

How do you like your eggs cooked?

I like my eggs sunny side up.

I like my eggs over easy.

I like my eggs hard boiled: cook

in water

I like my eggs scrambled.

I would like an omelet please.

I like my eggs poached.

Caviar: fish eggs

Crazy for means like

 

 

 

 

Listening Practice:

Could you please repeat that?

How do you spell ______   ?

 

Shrimp     Hush Puppy    Po’boy

Sandwich

 

 

 

 

po’boy      apostrophe    shrimp

sail: in a boat       hush puppy

Cucumber

 

under cook  cook overcook burn

If you overcook the shrimp, they get all

chewy.

cornmeal: corn flour

buttermilk: sour milk

Random

How do you like your steak (cooked)?

1 minute blue

3 rare

4 medium rare

5 medium

7 medium well

10 well done

 

 

 

1. Soup is food. In English, we eat

soup. We don’t drink it.

2. Soap is for washing your hands.

My wife is allergic to pumpkin.

 

Tropic of Cancer: 23.5 degrees north, Highway 9

Peruvian Opera

 

1. I would like to watch the Miami Vice again.

2. I saw the Scorsese film about Oklahoma recently. Killers of the Flower Moon.  

3. The best movie I have ever seen in Casablanca.

4. Pretty Woman was really boring.

5. I have streamed a couple of movies recently.

6. I don’t know. The question doesn’t make sense.

 

 

How about a? = do you want to

I can’t stand = I hate

No offense but (excuse) = do not get angry

Please think about what genre.

Cursor.

1. Usually, a movie review is someone writing a story in the newspaper or magazine to explain if the movie is good or sucks.

Recommend means suggest

Siblings are brothers and sisters.

It’s one of the weirdest movies …  Strange

Lots of violent things happen and they’re all totally terrified. Confusing.

2. It’s about a Peruvian opera singer.

3. A chef that/who can’t find work. The movie makes you think about some of the difficulties women have in their careers. She has to be a crossdresser to find a job as a chef.

5. The movie’s opening scene is really amazing.

It’s about this camel who greets tourists at the Great Wall of China.  

6. The movie is about a doctor in San Francisco.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Listening Practice.

Could you please repeat that?

How do you spell     ?

Described

Matt is a boy’s name

Genre

 

 

 

Last Week Notes: A Time to Write

 

 

The university needs one essay (story

or writing project) every semester. The

story is ten percent of your grade. We

actually give the essay to the university.

They will have a look to see that you

did a good job. First, we need ten

answers. Then we can make a story.

 

Nag

 

 

 

I am not really an organized. I am not fussy.

So this is torture.

Pronunciation: American accent is “curl the

tongue”

I want the next slide.

Should / ought

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I want to take the ten sentences to make

two paragraphs.

Please indent each paragraph. Please

double space.

 

       

 

        The classmate I talked to was Gigi

 

Lin. Gigi worked at McDonald’s. Her

 

favorite foreign, restaurant is Thai Town,

 

because she likes sour and spicy food.

 

She normally orders shrimp cakes and

 

drinks a lot of whiskey there.

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

 

        My classmate’s name in Matt. He has

 

never worked in a restaurant, but he

 

dreams of getting, a job at McDonald’s.

 

He likes to eat at McDonald’s the most

 

because it is delicious. He ordered a Big

 

Mac burger.

 

Nancy is playing hooky.

Mandy is playing hooky.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Match the verbs when you write.

1. Have you ever been to Thailand?   P.P.

Yes, I have been to Thailand.

 

Ever is only in the question, not answer.

 

2. Where do you live?    Present tense

I live in Iceland.

 

If you start a paragraph in the past tense,

 

all of the paragraph is past tense.

 

 

        I will go to Canada during the winter holiday.  (Future tense.

 

I am going to change my daughter into a Canadian high school

 

for grade 12. The reason for that is she is going to go to

 

university in Vancouver. ALWAYS WHEN YOU WRITE,

 

EXPLAIN.

 

If you start writing a paragraph in future tense,

all of the paragraph is future tense.

Double space

 

 

 

 

 

        Shakespeare was born April 23, 1564. He

 

grew up in Stratford.  He moved to London around 1590

 

when he was still a young man. He wrote poems and later

 

great plays.

 

        I spoke to Angel Wu in English class today.  Angel

 

used to work at Starbucks in Nantou. She liked the job

 

because she could drink coffee for free. Angel’s

 

favorite foreign restaurant is Mint because she loves

 

cheesy pasta and there is a variety of seafood, for

 

example, squid and clams. She normally orders the

 

classic spaghetti (Bolognese) with meatballs. She

 

also likes the Irish coffee – coffee and whiskey.

 

        BLAH BLAH

 

        My partner’s name is Sara Chiang. She

 

worked at Subway restaurant as the big

 

boss. Her favorite, foreign restaurant is called

 

Table Joe. She likes to order Chicken

 

Caesar Salad.

 

 

 

Midterm Exam

 

I told you words for the test last week.

Here are a few more words for the test

next week: hug, skyscraper,

incredible, complain, outgoing: extrovert,

Introvert: shy, triangular, structure, Egypt,

vacation/trip. These words are also on the test.

 

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Here are the rest of the words you need to know for the midterm exam:

 

Confusing, terrifying, depressed, custom, acquaintance, sightseeing, pyramid, personality, psychology, excited, crazy about, extrovert, coincidence, notice, introvert, concert, genre, museum, sibling, successful, determine, apologize, bow, hike, don’t mention it, volcano, camel, dessert, colleague, amazed, vinegar

 

Hold up your textbooks. I will give you 10/10 for

homework. 

Assistant: helper

Virtual: machine; not real

Instructions: rules

Abroad: different country

 

I will talk. Repeat what I say and finish the

sentence.

Use your imagination.

 

1. I was embarrassed when . . .

I was embarrassed when I didn’t go home because

I needed to make an excuse.

2. On vacation, I . . .

On vacation, I went camping because I needed

fresh air.

3. For breakfast, I . . .

For breakfast, I drank juice and ate an egg.

 

 

 

1. People bow…

People bow when they say goodbye.

2. One food I hate…

One food I hate is cilantro because it tastes like

garbage. 

3. On vacation, I …

Just use your imagination.

On vacation, I played golf.

What was your score?

 

 

 

People bow when they say hello in Japan.

On vacation, I…

On vacation, I went with my father to Keelung.

I have taken an airplane to Korea.

I was embarrassed when I went to the bathroom.

For breakfast, I didn’t eat anything.

My siblings are not in the world. I am an only child.

Write down your partner’s answers.

 

 

 

 

1.     Horizontal

 

2.     Vertical

 

3.     Diagonal

 

4.     Backwards

 

Listening Practice:

Could you please repeat that?

How do you spell       ?

Jealous

Jim: boy’s name

Waiter: person who serves food in a restaurant

Chef: is a cook (do not say cooker)

Genre: comedy, horror, romance, drama, cartoon, etc.

Weather: rainy, sunny, snowy, hot, cold . . .

If you didn’t finish your food in the restaurant,

you can ask the waiter: “Could I get a doggy

bag?”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.     Where did they eat?

They ate in a restaurant.

2.     Why did Jim get jealous?

The waiter kissed his girlfriend.

3.     What did Jim do to the waiter?

He beat up the waiter.

4.     What does the chef say?

He says gibberish.

5.     What does Jim give to the chef?

He gives the chef a doggy bag.

6.     What genre is this movie?

It’s a comedy.

7.     How is the weather?

We don’t know.

T.G.I.F.   Thank God It’s Friday

 

 

 

Souvenirs

 

Here is the plan for this class...

1.  We need to review for the

midterm test.

2. We need to write a paper. The paper is 10%

of your final grade. Let’s do it after the midterm

exam.

3. We need to think about doing a

presentation. One minute. 10% of

your grade. 

It may be confusing, but who knows?

Maybe it will go well and be interesting.

 

Check the homework. Hold up your textbook.

If you did the homework, I will give you 10/10.

If you did not do the homework, you can have

0/10.

She is playing hooky.

Notice: pay attention to, see

Featured: showed, told

 

Elevator: go up and down

I recognize you: already know you;

I have seen you before

Ecuador is a country in South

America. They speak Spanish in

Ecuador.

You are exaggerating.

Cathedral: beautiful, old church

Tacky

Oyster omelet

Oyster Dough

Embroidery

 

Don’t mention it: you’re welcome

As a matter of fact: actually

Please look me up: please contact

me (phone me, text, etc.)

 

Understand from context:

do not use your dictionary, just

read to understand new words.

Ginza is kind of like Tokyo’s

Ximenting. NY’s Time Square.

『 hustle and bustle

Una is playing hooky today.

Exactly 11, not 11:01, we

say it’s 11 sharp.

 

10/10

You can talk about five tourist

activities

anywhere that interest you in

the world. Yankee Stadium. Eiffel

Tower. Golden Gate Bridge.

Disneyland. Twin hearts stone weir.

Waterfall. Sun Moon Lake.

I am picking a random student.

1. Scenery

2. Food

3. Weather: humid, arid, hot, etc. tropical,

4. Souvenir: gift to remember your

trip or vacation

generous

Vermicelli: made with flour

5. Exercise

6. Nightlife

 

It’s awesome: it’s great, wonderful,

terrific, etc.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Suggest: v.

Suggestion: n.

Recommend: v.

Should / ought to v.

 

 

Take a break until 2:20.

 

I will give you 10/10,

but I need to see writing.

 

Souvenir: gift when you go

Traveling

Awesome: terrific, wonderful, great, etc.