WEEK 5
TOPIC: Grammar: The Past Continuous tense
The past continuous tense refers to an action that was given on at a time when another thing happened. The past continuous tense is formed by using WAS or WERE and a continuous tense. For example:
- I was eating rice when he entered the room
- While Kate was selling bread, her sister stole her money
- The men were working hard when the supervisor appeared
EVALUATION: Underline the verbs in the paragraph below:
James Bond was driving through town. It was raining. The wind was blowing hard. Nobody was walking in the streets. Suddenly, Bond was the killer in a telephone box…..
ASSIGNMENT:
Construct 5 sentences that have the past continuous tense
TOPIC: Vocabulary Development – Child Labour and Trafficking
Child labour – is when one subject a child to in human task. The following are words that are associated with child labour:
- Sweat shop
- Slave labour
- Forced
- In humane
- Salt mines
- Work house
- Nine
- Underpaid
Trafficking is a (crime). Dealing illegally e.g. traffic drugs, goods or humans e.t.c
These are words that are associated with trafficking – (1) Abduction (2) Brutality (3) Captive (4) Dehumanize (5) Exploit (6) Falsehood (7) Goon (8) Injustice (9) Loathing (10) Kidnap
EVALUATION: From your NOSEC (J.S.1) flip over to page 104 and answer questions 1-5 (Comprehension passage)
ASSIGNMENT
Give t he meaning of the following words and use them in sentences
- Dehumanize
- Loathing
- Injustice
- Under paid
ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY
TOPIC: Composition – Road Transportation is safer than Air transportation.
Good after, Mr. Chairman, panel of judges, accurate time-keeper and my co-debaters. I am here to support the motion which states that road transportation is safer than air transportation. These are may valid points:
First, you don’t have to take off your shoes and belt to enter a car or bus. If you ask me to give a lift, i won’t conduct a suspicious body search. No need to empty your coin purse or take out your laptop computer. In hsort, you will be treated with utmost respect and dignity.
Secondly, there are no delays or wanting in lounges in my car. Once you slam the door shut, we’re ready to roll. Our departure is not dependent on other people’s schedules in the goods of American car journalist David E. Davis Jr….”We drive our cars because they make us free. With cars we need not wait in airline terminals…..
In my car, you get to pick what to eat. Okay, not that i always allow eating inside my car. But in the rare time i do, there’s a multitude of drive thru choices you can ask me to go. You don’t have to settle for bland sweat-and-sour pork topped on undercooked rice.
Finally, turbulence doesn’t exist in my car. Sure, the car is going to be unsettled every now and then by the ignoramus potholes on EDSA, but you know there’s no danger of the vehicle plummeting down due to a strong head wind or an air pocket.
With all these valid points of mine, i hope i have been able to convince you that road travel is better and safer than air travel.
EVALUATION: You are the client speaker in a debate (competition) write out your argument for or against the proposition, democracy is better than military rule (200 words).
ASSIGNMENT: What is the difference between an argument and a debate.