Passive Quizes

You have four!  They add up to 49; however, I will give you a mark out of 50: there is a one-mark bonus, 2%.

Like last time, do them all, and tell me all four marks.  Do not post the results or email them: write them and your name on a piece of scrap paper and give me the paper.

The first three are simple multiple choice:
- PASSIVE VOICE 2 (out of 10)
- PASSIVE VOICE 3 (out of 10)
- Passive Quiz (out of 15)

The last one is more difficult, even though it is multiple choice: the examples are correct, but you must choose why they are written in passive voice.
- Passive Quiz 2 (out of 14)


CONDITIONAL TENSES: 'If'
You can begin practicing for the conditional on your apps and here when you have finished the passive quizzes:
- British Council Conditionals 1, explanation and exercises
- British Council Conditionals 2, explanation and exercises
- Explanation of all types 

Conditionals

A conditional sentence is a sentence containing the word if. There are three basic types of conditional sentence:

1. if clause > present simple tense : main clause > future tense (will)
   • If you help me, I will help you.
   • If I win the lottery, I will buy a new car.
   • If it snows tomorrow, we will go skiing.
2. if clause > past simple tense : main clause > would
   • If you knew her, you would agree with me.
   • If I won the lottery, I would buy a new car.
   • If it snowed tomorrow, we would go skiing.
3. if clause > past perfect tense : main clause > would have
   • If you had helped me, I would have helped you.
   • If I had won the lottery, I would have bought a new car.
   • If it had snowed yesterday, we would have gone skiing.

Of course, it is possible to start conditional sentences with the main clause:

• I will buy a new car if I win the lottery.
• I would buy a new car if I won the lottery.
• I would have bought a new car if I had won the lottery.

Homework: last week of April

First, text reading and answers:
- answer p. 4, A, B, C (by yourself)
- read pp. 5-6
- answer p. 7, B, C, D and E (by yourself)
- finished by Thursday

No Blog due

Links to information from this unit on 'World Happiness':
- Ranking
- Map
- Main page

G8/9
- passive voice grammar quiz on Friday.  Study!
- K MJ has a presentation on Thursday

Unit 10: Famous Photographer

Due date: 

- good copy will be due Thursday, 04/24

- presentations will be Thursday, 04/24
- we'll work on rough copy tomorrow to Tuesday/Wednesday
- you will send me the text and pictures by email, by the start of class

Content:

- write an introductory paragraph about the photographer
- write a paragraph about each of the pictures you will show (four to five photographs)
- use vocabulary from the unit to describe the pictures, and other vocabulary

How to present it:

- you must show the pictures

- the text must be three hundred to five hundred words, and you must print me a copy
- the font must be 'Times New Roman', size 12.  It must be double-spaced.

Edward Burtynsky

Passive Voice Quiz: 4/18

Passive Voice Quiz: 4/18

You will have a quiz on the use of the passive-voice this week.  Once again, review using the apps on your phone, or you can try these tests.  Here is a longer explanation, and here is the shorter.  Read the shorter first.  Active is the regular way, and passive is less common and sounds weaker, but you use it to avoid saying who/what is doing the action.

                                  ACTIVE                                             PASSIVE

Simple Present	Once a week, Tom cleans the house.	Once a week, the house is cleaned (by Tom).
Present Continuous	Right now, Sarah is writing the letter.	Right now, the letter is being written (by Sarah).
Simple Past	Sam repaired the car.	The car was repaired (by Sam).

Current Events: US to send two Aegis class destroyers to Japan

Due Monday, 4/14

Story: US to send two more warships to Japan by 2017.  These are destroyers with Aegis anti-missile weapons, mainly to stop missiles sent from North Korea.  

1. Write a summary of the story. This must be in sentences, and about 300 to 500 words, and IN YOUR OWN WORDS. This is the part you explain.

2. Choose five most important or new vocabulary words to explain to the class. Define them in simple English, in your own words, so everyone should understand.

3. Post to your blog, with the title: "Current Events: XXXXXXX"

4. Hyperlink where your story information comes from, like I have at the top.