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Basic English Grammar For English Language
Learners Meeting #8
Hery Yanto TheEnglish 3.0 Series, Summer 2012
July 11, 2012
Part I
English and Open Learning Movement
The World is Open?
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Learn More, Study Less?
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The Learning Revolution?
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Example #1: KHAN ACADEMY
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Example #2:The Wiki Era, Blogging, & Micro
Blogging
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Blogger, Wordpress, LiveJournal, Twitter, etc.
Example #3: MIT & Harvard Open Course
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Example #4: Massive Open Online Course
Watch the YouTube Video
PARTICIPATORYENGAGING
DISTRIBUTED
Scott Young TedTalk
Watch the YouTube Video
Other Examples:Open Content & Online Sharing
O Cloud StorageO Slide SharingO Free Animation & Viral
VideoO Open & Free SoftwareO Free WebinarO Free Online
ConferencesO Free Online Courses
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Questions?
O What function of English?
O What is the future of our education?
O Do we still need school/university?
O How do we position our self in this situation?
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PART II
PHRASES & DEPENDENT CLAUSES
Noun Phrases
A noun
Modifiers
A noun phrase
An accomplished paperThe old, broken, stinky pillow
The authentic English
Verb Phrases
A verb
The helping verb
A verb phras
e
should have arrivedbegan to clap
can help
Types of Verbal Phrases
O Participial phrases – Function as adjectivesO Insulted by the class instructor, Lucy dropped
the class.O Gerund phrases – Function as nouns
O Working out twice a week will help you feel better.
O Infinitive phrases – Function as adverbs, adjectives, or nounsO To finish his dissertation is his great ambition
this semester. O He made many efforts to finish his dissertation. O He want to finish his dissertation this semester.
Appositive PhrasesO Appositives rename nouns or
pronouns and appear right after the word they rename. O Barack Obama, the President of U.S.,
went to Harvard Law School from 1988 to 1991.
O Minouk Lim, a Korean artist, will collaborate with Minneapolis-based choreographer Emily Johnson on a performance called “Firecliff 3.”
Absolute Phrase(Source: About.com)
O Definition: A group of words that modifies an independent clause as a whole.
O An absolute is made up of a noun and its modifiers. It may precede, follow, or interrupt the main clause:O Their slender bodies sleek and black against the
orange sky, the storks circled high above us.O The storks circled high above us, their slender bodies
sleek and black against the orange sky.O The storks, their slender bodies sleek and black
against the orange sky, circled high above us.O An absolute allows us to move from a description of a
whole person, place, or thing to one aspect or part.
Independent & Dependent Clause (Source: Purdue AOWL)
Adjective Clauses (Source: ChomChomp)
Adverb Clauses(Source: Univ. of Victoria)
Types of Adverb Clause(Source: Univ. of Victoria)
Noun Clauses(Source: About.com)
O Noun clauses are clauses that function as nouns.
O Noun clauses, like nouns, can be used as either subjects or objects. O I like what he said. Noun clause: ...
what he said = objectO What he bought was awful: Noun
clause: What he bought ... = subject
Independent ExercisesO Go to our textbook supplement
website to take the practice testsO Pretest – Phrases and ClausesO Practice Exercises – Phrases and Clau
sesO Posttest – Phrases and Clauses
The textbook supplement learning material: CATALYST: A Tool for Writing and Research 2nd Edition, McGrawHill
Closing NotesO Send an email to the facilitator for enrolling
to the course. Write your full name and your country of origin. For example: Ahmad Faisal, Nigeria.
O The facilitator email address is [email protected]
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