English 2.4 Lesson 8 - grammar revision

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English 2.4

Lesson 8 - grammar revision

Today

1. For the vlog: scripts

2. For the advice: grammar revision

Sandwich time

Would the tone of this sentence be acceptable if you used it in your advice?

Don't try to schedule putting on the roof and building walls in parallel.

1. yes
2. no

What's wrong with "Don't try to schedule putting on the roof and building walls in parallel."?

It's an imperative

It uses a contraction

Would the tone of this sentence be acceptable if you used it in your advice?

It is mindless to assume that your best resource can work 16 hours a day for three weeks.

1. yes
2. no

What's wrong with "It is mindless to assume that your best resource can work 16 hours a day for three weeks."?

As a student, you cannot use a term like 'mindless' when you write an advice for a council.

Is this tone acceptable: "Given that...."?

1. yes
2. no

Is this tone acceptable: "For starters,...."?

1. yes
2. no

Is this tone acceptable: "For one, it would be advisable not to fast-track......"?

1. yes
2. no

Note: the imperative has been changed to a polite advise here!

Is this tone acceptable: "Slack time, as the name implies, is the time when...."?

1. yes
2. no

Is this tone acceptable: "The role of a manager is to identify and minimise....."?

1. yes
2. no

Remember

• Stating facts is fine
• Opinions: phrase them carefully

Which techniques make this a powerful statement: "A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour."?

• parallelism: repetition of "There is ....labour"
• contrasting ideas : visible vs invisible

Which techniques make this a powerful statement: "Organisations fail more often because of what they have not done than because of what they have done."?

• Parallelism: "what they .....done"
• Contrasting ideas: have - have not

Which techniques make this a powerful statement: "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it."?

• Repetition of the infinitive forms: to build - to ruin
• Contrasting ideas: build -ruin
• Contrasting the time: 20 years - 5 minutes

Practise

Rewrite the sentence using a preposition + verb in ing-form.

For example: I am sorry that I am late. - I am sorry for being late.

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Fill out the second sentence: This training manual is too complicated.
This training manual is ..... easy.

Fill out the second sentence: He was a very good basketball coach. He also inspired us.
Our basketball coach was not only brilliant .......... inspirational.

Fill out the second sentence: Don't press the red button!
.........do, don't press the red button!

Fill out the second sentence: My work placement was very good compared to the previous ones.
I can honestly say it ...... work placement I have ever done.

Fill out the second sentence: Just focus on what you can do.
Don't focus on ......... . Instead, focus on what you can do.

Always useful

using the correct preposition

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Homework

1. Edit your vlog - and bring it
2. Write your advice - and bring it

• Use the bullet points you put together as a group
• Write the advice individually
• Bring your good mood: it's the last class at school for year 2!