We are now working on Essay #5. By now, you should remember to include a title, capitalize the title, have good paragraph shape, put one space after a period or comma, and think about your font size and spacing. If you don't do these things, you haven't learned the simplest things that will make your essay look good. Beyond that, of course, you need good content. That means you must plan your essay carefully before you begin to write. Don't just start writing whatever comes into your head; that's not an essay!
Today, we will:
1) Receive our corrected Essay #5 (Change Essay) from Kevin
* If you didn't turn in your essay last week, you need to do that today!
2) Do a worksheet on the difference between the Present Perfect Tense and the Simple Past Tense.
3) Do some online exercises re. verb forms (see below).
4) Check out a great website called "Zen Pencils."
Below are some online grammar exercises that practices verb forms, including the Present Perfect Tense. Please do them.
http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz29bms.htm
http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz79bdo.htm
http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz64fck.htm
When you finish the exercises above, please take a look at Zen Pencils. This is an awesome website I discovered recently. The author/artist is Gavin Aung Than, of Melbourne, Australia. He finds an interesting quotation or inspirational message and illustrates it. I haven't read all of the posts yet (there are 85 to date), but below are a few that I liked. Feel free to view others. After you've looked at several, please blog here on the message or quotation that appeals to you most. Be sure to explain which quotation you are blogging about, paste the URL in your post, and please write your name on the post.
http://zenpencils.com/comic/83-howard-thurman-ask-yourself/
http://zenpencils.com/comic/81-richard-dawkins-the-lucky-ones/
http://zenpencils.com/comic/80-henry-david-thoreau-on-happiness/
http://zenpencils.com/comic/75-l-p-jacks-work-and-play/
http://zenpencils.com/comic/73-mark-twain-an-educational-journey/
http://zenpencils.com/comic/63-carl-sagan-books-are-awesome/
http://zenpencils.com/comic/60-robert-frost-the-road-not-taken/
http://zenpencils.com/comic/50-neil-gaiman-make-good-art/
http://zenpencils.com/comic/80-henry-david-thoreau-on-happiness/
ReplyDeleteHappiness is like a butterfly.
Sounds good!!!
Takayuki
I choose http://zenpencils.com/comic/83-howard-thurman-ask-yourself/, The woman fighting in your pillow, and then she won the prize. It is interested.
ReplyDeleteDaiki Shinji
I was impressed "HOWARD THURMAN".
ReplyDeleteI think she is so crazy and wrong.
She should calm down immediately!! -Daichi
83-howard-thrman-ask yourself
ReplyDeleteI thought that you should do a favorite thing.
However, this chief character was bright and thought that it was great that the professional wrestling was strong.
2322011 Hiroki Otani
http://zenpencils.com/comic/43-hunter-s-thompson-the-happier-man/
ReplyDeleteI think happiness has many shapes, so we can't decide which is more happier man. In this picture, the man who has stayed on shore looks sad, but possibly he can tell this story to someone. It's happiness. I can't compare these two happiness.-Yukiko
72: CHRISTOPHER LOGUE: Come to the edge
ReplyDeleteI think the severity of the parent will help later.
Mina
http://zenpencils.com/comic/75-l-p-jacks-work-and-play/
ReplyDeleteHer work is her hobby. I think she is very happy.
Nao
http://zenpencils.com/comic/75-l-p-jacks-work-and-play/
ReplyDeleteI choose cake girl.
she is very cute. I want to become make a sweet.
mikako
I choose 79. HELEN KELLER: When one door closes.
ReplyDeletehttp://zenpencils.com/comic/79-helen-keller-when-one-door-closes/
There is sorrow very much and it matched Helen's wise saying.
I specially like a part of he say "But often we look so long at the closed door", and he went to City Mission.
2122045 Yuya Sawahata
I raed 73.
ReplyDeleteTraveling in the world changes person.
I want to travel in the world too.
Hiriharu
http://zenpencils.com/comic/55-bodhidharma-the-road-to-freedom/
ReplyDeleteI think it is true. Whatever will be, will be. True way is in my heart.
I'm Masae. I forgot again...
Deletehttp://zenpencils.com/comic/73-mark-twain-an-educational-journey/
ReplyDeleteA human learns by one's life experience, and changed one's view of life.
Kazunari
69 http://zenpencils.com/comic/69-buddha-less-is-more/
ReplyDeleteI think that I should consider my happiness, before being sad misfortuner. There must be much happiness only by being alive.I noticed it, seeing this comic.
Hana
http://zenpencils.com/comic/82-zen-proverb-the-master/
ReplyDeletePeople laern from who knows better than themselves. If people can be better than who teached them, I think it is really nice. Then people can also teach another people. I want to be one of these people. So this quotation in THe master is very impressed to me.
Yang
I choose http://zenpencils.com/comic/80-henry-david-thoreau-on-happiness/
ReplyDeleteHappiness run out if we chase and chase. Happiness is not chase thing, happiness is result!!
I choose http://zenpencils.com/comic/80-henry-david-thoreau-on-happiness/
ReplyDeleteHappiness run out if we chase and chase. Happiness is not chase thing, happiness is result!!
kouji
http://zenpencils.com/comic/80-henry-david-thoreau-on-happiness/
ReplyDeleteThis is so good because maybe happiness will come to a man with inner reserves. I don't like a butterfly but I like a little it. Happiness is like a butterfly,,, good sounds.
Kanami
http://zenpencils.com/comic/83-howard-thurman-ask-yourself/
ReplyDeletethis story was so funny. I like this story. because when she was child, she was clever. but when she become a sdult, she became a crazy
it was funny
K
http://zenpencils.com/comic/83-howard-thurman-ask-yourself/
Deletethis story was so funny. I like this story. because when she was child, she was clever. but when she become a sdult, she became a crazy
it was funny
Kenta
Kenta
http://zenpencils.com/comic/63-carl-sagan-books-are-awesome/
ReplyDeleteIf I come across a good book, it experience is useful to in my life, so I can get to knowledge.
TAKI GON
http://zenpencils.com/comic/75-l-p-jacks-work-and-play/
ReplyDeleteI think wonderful that a dream comes true.
http://zenpencils.com/comic/75-l-p-jacks-work-and-play/
ReplyDeleteShe is a cute.
She is a dream very good!
I thought that was amazing and a dream come true.
sena