The Elements of a Short Story

Welcome my dear students to another week of English excitement. Today we will have a lot of fun analyzing funny stories.

Let's start by watching this video to see what we are going to analyze:

Now let's complement this information by reading this WebPage:

Elements of a Short Story (hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/engramja/elements.html)

1. Please create a Post in your blog with the name: The Elements of a Story.

2. Now fill in the first two columns of the following chart.

Short Story Element	What is it?	Example

3. Listen and read this story:

4. Based on this story, fill in the third column of your chart (Point 2)

5. For the next class (Friday, February 15th) please read the following story:

You may Print it if you want to.

Vusi Makusi (http://www.eastoftheweb.com/cgi-bin/version_printable.pl?story_id=VusiMaku899.shtml)

Passive Voice and Conditionals

Create a new blog post with the title "Passive Voice and Conditionals".

Passive voice

Let's watch these videos where we can understand a little about the passive voice.

Complete the sentences or answer the following questions in your blog:

1. The passive tense is used because...

2. When do we use the passive voice?

3. The structure to use the passive voice in the

PRESENT TENSE is Object+To be (present)+Past Participle+(by + subject)* *If needed.

PAST TENSE is ____________________________________________________

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE is ___________________________________________

4. Go to this website (http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive) and do some of the exercises there. Share with us one of the exercises on your blog.

Conditionals

Let's watch this overview of conditionals.

Complete the sentences or answer the following questions in your blog:

5. Which tenses are used in the first conditional? Write an example about it.

6. What is the characteristic of the first conditional?

7. Which tenses are used in the second conditional? Write an example about it.

8. The pronoun I comes with the verb to be in the second conditional in which form?

9. Which tenses are used in the third conditional?

10. Go to this Website (http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences) Read about it clear up any questions you might have. Do this exercise: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences/exercises?05. Share in your what you have learnt about Conditionals.