V4_U4_Possession/Genitive and Word Order

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V4 - Unit 4.2 & 4.3

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Today's class - Tue. May 13th

TEST DATES Vocabulary units 3 and 4 (N-E, E-N) and Listening 

1st hour - listing via www.woots.nl/login via Entree

Test 2016/2017 - havo audio, 25 min.

Listening Of Course Unit 4.3 - ex. 15 and 16 online

2nd hour - Of Course Unit 4.3 - review ex. 11 + 12 (genitive + word order) - p. 208 = 209

Speaking ex. 13 + 18- p. 202 and 203

HW: Unit 4.4 - ex. 1-6 (reading comprehension, vocabulary - synonyms and prefixes)

Today's class

First hour:

Review 4.2 - ex. 11-15

Review 4.3 - ex. 1-10

Grammar: The Genitive; Word Order; Some/Any; So/Neither

HW: 4.3- ex. 11/12 + study the expressions and vocabulary of 4.3

Second hour:

Listening practice (www.woots.nl) & Test Jezelf Unit 4.2/4.3

Possession/Genitive 

There are 3 ways to indicate possession:

• 's -> person/singular (the boy's bike)
• ' -> persons/plural (the boys' bikes)
• of -> material things (the brakes of the bike)

Uses of 's/'

• persons (singular -> the boy's bike; plural -> the boys' bikes/the students' marks)
• names/also names ending in "s" (James's girlfriend OR James' girlfriend, Dickens's  OR Dickens' novels)

      NOTE: names referring to classical antiquity (Greece/Roman empire) -> only ' (Jezus' teachings; Socrates' ideas)

• animals (the eagle's nest, the horse's mouth)
• time and distance (an hour's walk from here / a three hours' drive / a three-hour drive!/next week's weatherforecast/yesterday's news)
• money/value (six euros' worth of ice cream/100,000's worth of diamonds)
• locations (I was at my friend's/ at mom's/at the baker's/at Walmart's/St. Paul's. )note: you don't mention the building
• ships/vehicles (the train's heating system, the ship's mast)
• certain expressions (a stone's throw away, the water's edge, a winter's day)

Of

• quantity (a large amount of apples/a kilo of salt/one cup of coffee etc.)
• geographical names (The province of Utrecht, the city of Amsterdam etc.)
• objects (the lid of the jar)

Double Genitive - Of + 's/his/hers/ours 

He's a friend of mine

She a friend of his

She's a friend of my dad's

Difference between these:

This is a picture of Sarah.

This is a picture of Sarah's.

Some/Any

Some -> ongeveer; een of andere; used in affirmative sentences (bevestigende zinnen) or if you if expect the answer to be "yes"

E.g. Some thousand years ago people lived in the Middle Ages.

Some guy asked me to dance.

Would you like some coffee or tea?

Any -> hardly; used in negative sentences or questions if you don't know the answer or expect the answer to be negative

E.g. There's hardly anyone present yet. Is there anybody who has actually done his homework?

Some/any - questions

1. Some/any guy came up to me and asked me for my phone number! 
   
2. Some/any 200 employees are working in this company
   
3. Does someone/anyone know the answer, or did no one do their homework?!!
   
4. I cannot believe it! I have hardly some/any money left!
   

Some/any - answers

1. Some guy came up to me and asked me for my phone number! 
   
2. Some 200 employees are working in this company
   
3. Does anyone know the answer, or did no one do their homework?!!
   
4. I cannot believe it! I have hardly any money left!
   

Word Order

Word order: SVOPT = Subject Verb Object (direct object/indirect object -> lv of mwv) Place Time

E.g.

Tim gave flowers to his mom during his visit in London last week.

Or

Last week in London, Tim gave flowers to his mom during his visit.

 Word Order Adverbs

Adverbs (never, really, slowly, mostly, daily, hardly etc.)

ONE verb  in the sentence -> before the verb: She hardly spoke. They nearly missed the bus

TWO verbs in the sentence -> after the first verb: She can really dance; She can never dance again; She could hardly speak.

Form of "to be"-> after form of "to be": She was always present; They were never late.

Longer adverbs-> Start or end of sentence: Occassionally she calls me.; Sometimes it is a good thing.

Stylistic effect -> Adverbs at start of sentence: Slowly, they started to get up.

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