OK, finally this morning, here is a worksheet on the verb seem when used with an infinitive. This worksheet seems to be intellectually lightweight.
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“Communiqué (noun): An official announcement or bulletin, usually addressed to the media or other official bodies rather than the public.
‘The communiqué contained—here you proceed at your own risk and probably would be well advised to have a companion—friendly and cooperative relations, harmonious relations, constructive relations, cooperative relations, the totality of varied relationships, a close and mutually beneficial relationship based on the principal of equality (it’s only the beginning folks, only the beginning), a common determination, an enhanced scope for creativity, the maintenance of peace and the evolution of a stable international order….The Tokyo communiqué somehow left out resolute action, which governments often promise to take and the end of meaningless meetings.’ Edwin Newman, A Civil Tongue”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of obscenity. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences (the last a compound separated by a semicolon) and three comprehension questions. While obscenity as a legal concept doesn’t much appear in the press anymore, mostly because it appears to be a settled legal issue, it certainly was in the news a great deal when I was in high school.
So this may currently be irrelevant material–something I learned about in school because it was current in a way that it no longer is.
But what do you think?
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“Modular: Designed or constructed according to a standardized scale or parts, as in prefabricated building construction and furniture systems.”
Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.
This week’s Text comes from the pages of Barbara Ann Kipfer’s fascinating reference book (aside: I wish I had her job), The Order of Things: a lesson plan on English literary periods. This is a pretty simple lesson; it is intended, as everything under the header of The Order of Things on this blog is intended, for struggling and emergent readers as well as learners of English as a new language.
You’ll need this combined reading and comprehension worksheet (the reading is a list) to teach this lesson.
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“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes
Tagged humor, literary oddities, philosophy/religion
Here is a worksheet on the verb request when it is used with an infinitive. They requested to work on something more substantial than the worksheet on the verb request.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom vicious circle. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one longish compound containing a colon and a semicolon which might, obviously, be best revised for emergent readers and those working to acquire English as a new language. There is one simple comprehension question and one imperative to use vicious circle in a sentence.
In other words, a basic introduction to this very commonly used idiom in English.
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This week’s Text is a lesson on the Latin word root sept. Unlike many of the other lessons on word roots this blog published, sept is not at the root of a lot of high frequency words–except for September, of course. So the scaffolded worksheet that is the principle work of this lesson contains a lot of seldom-used words such as septet (unless of course you are a Wynton Marsalis fan surprised by his disbanding of his estimable septet), septillion, septuagint, and septuble, and includes a list of cognates from the Romance languages.
This do-now exercise on the adjective and adverb weekly doesn’t quite point the way toward the meaning of sept as I would have hoped it would. A week has seven days, of course, but weekly means as an adverb “every week,” “once a week,” and “by the week”; as an adjective, it means “occurring, appearing, or done weekly.” So nothing denoting or connoting seven, alas.
So this lesson leaves something to be desired in terms of coherence and priorities (i.e. is this the best word root to teach? Is there a root more productive of high-frequency English words that would be more useful to students?). But what do you think?
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
“There are three reasons for becoming a writer. The first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; and the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.”
Excerpted from: Sherrin, Ned, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes
Tagged humor, lgbtq history, literary oddities
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