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Wednesday, February 4th , 2009
Make as many sensible sentence as you can by joining the elements in the following pattern table.

My mother does housework everyday.
They like history
His family climbed Everest mountain 2 days go.
These young children are sleeping
A postman delivers letters and magazines to customer.
His family met his uncle at the airport.
[`histri]
[di`livə]
[`fæmli]
[`poustmn]
A. PRONUNCIATION:
1.What is elision?
It’s the act of leaving out the sound of part of a word when you are pronouncing it.
2. The rules of elision:
Loss of weak vowel after p, t, k
Ex: potato [p`teitou] ; tomato [t`mɑ:tou]
Canary [k`neəri] ; Perhaps [p`hæps]
Today [tə`dei]
b. Weak vowel + n, l, or r
Ex: tonight [tə`nait]; police [pə`li:s]
correct [kə`rekt]
c. Avoidance of complex consonant clusters.
Ex: acts [æks]
Looked back [luk bæk]








*Listen and repeat:
grandmother; castle; family; awful; history
handsome ; postman; garden; interest; Edinburgh

*Practice reading these sentences:
My grandmother is very interested in history.
2. There are a lot of old castle in Edinburgh.
3. I saw a handsome postman entering the garden.
4. My family paid a visit to that castle two years ago.
5. The meal was awful this evening.
Look at the following sentence again then give remark for the verb in each sentence:
1. My mother does housework everyday.
2. They like history
3. His family climbed Everest mountain 2 days go.
4. These young children are sleeping
5. A postman delivers letters and magazines to customer.
6. His family met his uncle at the airport.

Verb + Obj
Verb + Obj
Verb + Obj
Verb + Obj
Verb + Obj
Verb
Verb + Object -> transitive verb
Verb + no object -> intransitive verb.

-A transitive verb requires a direct
object to complete its meaning in the
Sentence. In other words, the action
of the verbs is transferred to the object
directly.
-An intransitive verb does not have a
direct object. The action ends rather
than being transferred to some person
or object or is modified by an adverb
phrase.
-Typically, an adverb or prepositional
phrase modifies an intransitive verb
or the verb ends the sentence.
-To determine whether a verb is transitive,
ask whether the action is done to someone
or something.
-To determine whether a verb is
intransitive ask whether the action is
done in some way, in some direction or
to some degree.
Ex : The judge sentences the man to five
years in prison.
Ex: Alice complained bitterly.
-> the subject the judge applies an action
sentence to a direct object the man.
-> The subject Alice did something to a
particular degree.
Notes:
Many verbs may be transitive or intransitive depending on their functions and meanings.
Transitive: The judge turned the pages quickly.
V( t) Od
-> The subject was engaged in an action turned and that action transferred to a direct object the pages.
Intransitive: The car turned suddenly at the corner of the street.
-> The subject was engaged in an action turned and that action was done in a particular way suddenly but not to someone or something.

Identify the underlined parts of speech:
The children were asked to tidy up the kitchen.
a. transitive verb b. intransitive verb
2. Trung turned around when he heard a strange noise behind him.
a. transitive verb b. intransitive verb
3. His ability to concentrate is marvelous.
a. transitive verb b. intransitive verb
4. Her brother likes classical music ,but she likes
rock’ n roll.
a. transitive verb b. intransitive verb

a
b
b
a
Which of the following verbs can have an object, and which cannot?
sleep read
write lie
meet occur
grow help
arrive rain
exist climb
Read
write
climb
meet
help
sleep
lie
rain
exist
occur
arrive
die
Exercise 2 : Which verbs in the following sentences are transitive ( T ) and which are intransitive ( I )
A serious accident happened yesterday
The customer bought a lot of butter
Our team won the game
Their team won yesterday
Alice arrived at 6 o’clock
They are staying at a resort hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
The wind is blowing hard today.
I walked to the station with my friends.
T
I
Choose the sentences that have object and then change them to the passive voice.


Number 1:
An will pay the bill.
-> The bill will be paid by An
Number 3
The hotel supplies towels
-> Towels are supplied by the hotel.
Number 5
Everyone noticed my mistakes
-> My mistakes were noticed by everyone.
Number 7
The news didn’t surprises me
-> I wasn’t surprised by the news.
Number 9
An old man told the story.
-> The story was told by an old man.
How paper is made?
Using the cues to write the process of paper production:
Trees / cut down
They / take / paper mill
Bark / remove
Wood / break / small chips
Chips / mix with water
Mixture / make / pulp
Chemicals and dyes/ add to the mixture
Pulp / press / rollers to remove water.
Paper / dry / by hot rollers
Roll of paper / send / factories, newspaper offices, etc.