Thursday, April 29, 2021

Lesson #2 with Maria - Kinds of Nouns and Prayer

I. Nouns 

1. What are the types of nouns and their definitions? What is an example of each noun? Can you read your homework?

1. Proper nouns - St. Francis of Assisi, St. Claire, Jesus, Mary, Joseph, God, Adam, Eve

2. Common nouns - mother, father, saint

3. Concrete nouns- apple, snake, deer, eagle

4. Abstract nouns - love, fear, hate, humility, generosity

5. Collective nouns - a caravan of gypsies, a cloud of dust, a collection of coins

6. Compound nouns - aircraft, eggplant, heartbeat

7. Countable nouns - Children, family, classmates

8. Non-countable nouns - Aggression, darkness, cash, dignity, determination

9. Possessive nouns - Mary's, Misha's, Freya's, the Principal's

10. Verbal nouns- (arrive > arrival, hesitate > hesitation, decide >decision, protest >protest, drink > drink)







II. Identify the nouns in the following sentences and transform the colored words (verbs) into noun. 

1. Have you ever been taught to pray? Do you pray before meals, before sleeping or when waking up?
2. How often do you pray?
3. If you could have one prayer answered, what would it be?
4. Do you believe in the healing power of prayer?

Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication (it is the way we communicate with God).

rapport - close and harmonious relationship in which people understand one another's feelings and communicate well (bond).

deliberate - done consciously and intentionally (intentional, calculated)





















Our Father,
Who art in Heaven
hallowed be Thy name
Thy Kingdom come, 
Thy will be done,
on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those
who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil 
Amen.

God is nearer to us than we are to ourselves. 
God dwells within our souls. 

Hallowed make holy; consecrated (blessed, sanctified, consecrated)
Will the faculty by which a person decides on and initiates action (determination, will power)
Trespassenter the owner's land or property without permission (invade)
Temptation -the desire to do something, especially something wrong or unwise (desire, impulse, urge, itch)
Deliversave, rescue, or set someone or something free from (free, liberate, release)

Sample sentence: 
a. When the church is built, the Bishop will hallow the building with a prayer./ The knights asked the priest to hallow their swords before the war.
b. If there's a will, there's a way. 
c. John who is from 4th grade entering 3rd grade classroom without permission means he is trespassing
d. Temptation is not a sin but giving in to it becomes one. 
f. Deliver them from the agony of prolonged unemployment.



















If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, 
you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellowmen.

exclude- keep out, deny access to

Sample sentence: All can enter heaven excluding those who don't bow down to the Lord and keep the 10 commandments. 
























Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.

Sowplant seed (bring about, create, give rise to)
Peace - freedom from disturbance; tranquility
Injury - damage to the body
Doubt - feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction 
Faith - complete trust or confidence
Seek - attempt to find, ask for something
Console comfort (someone) at a time of grief or disappointment (comfort).

sample sentence:
a. You reap what you sow. 
b. The classroom was at peace when the armchair critic took a break and went outside.
c. He is a know it all; he knows the cure to injury. 
d. I doubt if he can graduate from school because he has always been a couch potato. 
e. I have faith in him because he is a big cheese in the company. 
f. In love, I seek someone with a heart of gold. 
g. Music, art and prayer consoled me in times of loneliness and distress. 

Prayer for Humility

O Jesus, meek and humble of heart, hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed, 
deliver me Jesus.
From the desire of being extolled,
of being honored, of being praised
of being preferred to others, 
of being consulted, of being approved,
deliver me Jesus.
From the fear of being humiliated
deliver me Jesus.
From the fear of being despised
of being rebuked, of being neglected,
of being forgotten, of being ridiculed,
of being wronged, of being suspected
of being injured, deliver me Jesus,
That others may be esteemed more than I,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be chosen and I set aside,
that others may be praised and I unnoticed,
that others may be holier than I, provided that 
I may become holy as I should,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it. 

Meekquiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive (patient, forbearing)
Humblehaving or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance (unassertive)
Esteemedrespect and admiration, typically for a person.
Esteemed - praise enthusiastically.
honoredhigh respect; great esteem.
Prefer - like one thing or person better than another
Consultedseek information or advice from (someone with expertise in a particular area (ask).
Approved - accept
despisedfeel contempt or a deep repugnance for (hate)
neglected - fail to care for properly (abandon)
rebuked  - express sharp disapproval or criticism of (someone) because of their behavior or action (reprimand, scold, reproach)
ridiculedsubject (someone or something) to contemptuous and dismissive language or behavior (mock, laugh at)
suspectedhave an idea or impression of the existence, presence, or truth of (something) without certain proof (feel, fancy, doubt, distrust)
grace courteous goodwill.

sample sentence:

a. My classmate was rich but she never boasted about her wealth; she was meek as a lamb. 
b. humble - Princess Diana was humbled by the vast amount of supporters she had during that celebration. 
c. My teacher esteems students with good qualities like sincere, hardworking, and studious.
d.  The doctor was honored to be the official physician for the prince and princess. 
e. I prefer English over mathematics because it is easy to memorize and there aren't a lot of calculations to make. 
e. The student consulted her watch for the time. 
f. You must face the music and you won't get any approval for cheating in the exam. 
g. I despise a bad apple. 
h. Don't let the cat out of the bag; she neglected to perform her duties while the supervisor was out of sight. 
i. The student was rebuked for beating around the bush. Had he been straightforward, he would not have been rebuked. 
j. I was all ears when the student ridiculed the teacher for stuttering. 
k. She suspected that that he had a bright idea in mind.
l. She is quite lovable despite her lack of social graces./ By the grace of God, no one was seriously hurt./ She tried to live her life in God's grace. 

Pieta




















God, my Father
Create in me a heart that 
hungers for your will alone--
a heart to accept your will, to do your will, 
to be whatever you want me to be,
to do whatever you want me to do.

When you chose to create this world, 
you knew the blueprint
and the design of my life
the moment of my conception
the day and hour when I would be born. 
You saw from all eternity the color of my eyes
and you heard the sound of my voice.
You knew what gifts I would have
and those that I would be without 
You also knew the moment 
and the circumstances of my dying

These choices are all a part of your will for me.
I will try lovingly to build an edifice of love
and praise with these materials
which you have given me.
What I am is your gift to me.
What I become will be my gift to you. 

edifice - a building, especially a large, imposing one
blueprint - design plan or technical drawing

As to the future, I ask for your the grace
to sign a blank check
and trustfully put it in your hands,
for you to fill in all the amounts
the length of my life, the amount of success
and the amount of failure,
the experiences of pleasure and of pain.
I would tremble to do this except for one thing:
I know you love me.
And, of course, you know how much better than I
what will truly and lastingly make me happy. 

In response to your will,
I want my life to be an act of love.
Wherever there is a choice
help me to ask only this:
What is the loving thing to do, to say, to be?
To make the decision that love must,
I seek and need your enlightenment.
Touch my eyes
with your gentle and healing hands
that I might find my way
along the winding course of love.
Strengthen my will and direct my feet 
to follow that course always. 

And whenever there is something special 
your love designed for me to do in my life,
let me be found ready and waiting.
Help me to become
a sensitive instrument of your grace
I believe that you have
a providential master plan for this world,
and I want to be a part of it.
I want to make my contributions
to your Kingdom,
the contribution you have entrusted 
only to me. 
I want you to use me to help love this world
into the fullness of life

Finally, my Lord and my God
let me be faithful 
in my commitment and dedication to your will,
faithful until the end,
Let "faithfulness" be the summary of my days and of my nights.
Let the inscription 
on my tombstone read:
PIETA.

III. Homework

1. Create a Youtube Channel and record yourself speaking English and using the words that you have learnt. 
2. Present your favorite article next time. 

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Lesson #1

I. Getting to know each other

1. What is your name?
2. How old are you?
3. What is your grade level?
4. What are your hobbies and interests and motto in life?
5. What motivates you to study English?
6. How often do you study English?
7. How often do you use English?
7. How do you study English?
8. How good are you in English?
9. What are your expectations for your class with me?

II. Quick review of the main parts of a sentence and parts of speech. 

1. What are the 2 main parts of a sentence? 
- Subject and Predicate. Subject is the topic of the sentence whilst predicate describes the subject. 

2. What are the 8 parts of speech?

a. Noun - Countable or Uncountable, abstract, concrete, compound, collective, common, proper
b. Pronoun - Personal, indefinite, interrogative, relative, possessive, reflexive, intensive, demonstrative, reciprocal, distributive
c. Verb - Action, transitive, intransitive, finite, non-finite verb (gerund, infinitives, participle), dynamic, stative, regular, irregular, auxiliary, linking
d. Adjective - Descriptive, quantitative, proper, demonstrative, possessive, interrogative, indefinite, articles, compound, cardinal, ordinal (positive, comparative, superlative)
e. Adverb - Time, degree, place, manner, frequency, comment, conjunction, confirmation and negation
f. Preposition - Simple, double, compound, participle, phrase (time, place, direction, agent, instrument, prepositional phrase)
g. Conjunction - Coordinating, correlative, subordinating, adverbial
h. Interjection - greetings, happiness, sorrow, anger, approval, surprise, attention, shock



III. Preliminary Quiz and Make your own Sentence.

1. There were fewer/less spectators than expected.
- Fewer is Adjective







































2. The results of this complicated lawsuit remain/remains to be seen.
- Remain is an intransitive verb
































Example sentence: All this time he had to remain strong for his mother.

3. The city of Dresden, which/that was virtually burnt to the ground during the war, now flourishes again.
- Which is relative pronoun.
Example sentence: 
All of which was beside the point.

Speaking of which, where was Alex?



































4. I don't suppose that either of them care/cares one way or another. 
- Cares is a transitive verb 
Example sentence: 

































5. That is one of those setbacks that really is/are unavoidable.
Are is a linking verb
































6. The chairman, together with his two young daughters, have/has accepted our invitation. 
Has is a primary auxiliary verb.































7. The Cabinet has/have all been sworn to secrecy. 
Have is a primary auxiliary verb.
























































8. All those/Everyone present should pay their subscriptions on the way out. 
All those is a pronoun.


































9. Every man, woman, and child were/was rescued.
Was is a linking verb.









































10. Neither fire nor flood is/are every likely to deter him. 
Is is linking verb.




































11. They had a dreadful row, and between you and me/I, his wife has now walked out on him. 
Me is an object pronoun. 


12. The audience gave my wife and I/me a standing ovation. 
Me is an object pronoun. 





















13. Pierre challenged the directors, who/whom he regarded as incompetent to run the company. 
Whom is a relative pronoun. 

-Whom should be used to refer to the object of a verb or preposition.

She saw a lady whom she presumed worked at the store, and she asked her a question.












14. Please would you allow Joe and I/me to escort you home.




















Me is an object pronoun. 

15. Who/Whom do you think is going to win? 
Answer: He is going to win. 
Incorrect: Him is going to win. 












Who is an interrogative pronoun.

16. Who/Whom do you consider most likely to win?
Whom is an interrogative pronoun. 

Answer: I consider him most likely to win.
Incorrect: I consider he most likely to win. 





















17. They pleaded with whomever/whoever was within hailing distance.
Whoever is a subject pronoun.  

I'll buy it from whoever owns it. 

Whoever has them will be able to take control. 

Whoever you have will be enough for my plan.













18. I hope you don't mind my/me dropping in like this. 
My is a possessive pronoun. 





















19. It's unfair to expect us/we public figures to know all the answers.
Us is an object personal pronoun. 





















20. Isn't that the same man as/that she was dancing with last night?
As is a conjunction. It means "like" here or "the same as".


















21. Ruth Ellis was the last woman hanged/hung in Britain. 
Hanged is a verb in past tense (intransitive).






22. Workmen lay/laid the tarpaulin down on the grass.
Laid is a past tense verb.





















23. She shrunk/shrank back in horror. 
Shrank is a past tense verb.


































24. Nobody dare/dares stand up to her. 
Dare is a modal verb. (indignation)












25. I shall/will find an answer, if it's the last thing I do. 
will is a modal verb.















26. I would/should go pick a fight with a karate expert!
Would is a modal verb.













27. If I were/was younger, I'd be happy to take the risk. 
Were is a linking verb.





















28. Glamorgan may/might have won the match had they not gone and dropped three catches. 
Might is a modal verb. 












29. They asked if  I was/were prepared to reconsider. 
Was is a linking verb. 




















30. He will likely/probably call again on Thursday. 
Probably is an adverb. 






















31. The water in the basin has frozen solidly/solid during the night. 
Solid is an adjective. 
































32. It's one of the most unusual/unique game parks in Africa.
Unusual is an adjective. 

unique is (not comparable) being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched while unusual is unlike what is expected; differing in some way from the norm.














33. You can phone direct/directly to Moscow.
Direct is an adverb.

Example sentence: The trains ran direct to both Oxford and Cambridge.


34. Regrettably/Regretfully, your application has been refused.
Regrettably is an adverb.

Example sentence:  In a moment of self-reflection Andy realizes that he has regrettably neglected his two children in order to further his career.


Questions: 

1.)  How was the quiz?
2.) Which of the sentences do you find difficult to understand?


IV. Homework

1.) Keep a notebook that records the unfamiliar words that you encounter daily. Write their definitions and make your own sentence using those words. 

2.) Study about nouns and be ready for a quiz about nouns. Write 3 example words of countable, uncountable, abstract, concrete, compound, collective, common, proper nouns (recommended: those that you are unfamiliar of) and write a sentence for each 3 words.