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)

Trespass - enter the owner's land or property without permission (invade)

Temptation -the desire to do something, especially something wrong or unwise (desire, impulse, urge, itch)

Deliver - save, 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.

Sow - plant 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. 

Meek - quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive (patient, forbearing)

Humble - having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance (unassertive)

Esteemed - respect and admiration, typically for a person.

Esteemed - praise enthusiastically.

honored - high respect; great esteem.

Prefer - like one thing or person better than another

Consulted - seek information or advice from (someone with expertise in a particular area (ask).

Approved - accept

despised - feel 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)

ridiculed - subject (someone or something) to contemptuous and dismissive language or behavior (mock, laugh at)

suspected - have 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.