Test Prep. 11.1.17

TEST PREP

Test Yourself! 

Practice Book

pages 41-42 

and 61-63

Vocabulary: Practice Book pages 24,28,29 and 35. 
Unit 2 and Unit 3 (page 108 - first column only) ~ found at end of chapter vocabulary list

Grammar: Practice Book pages 36, 37, 38, 40
Present Simple, Present Progressive, Stative, Present Perfect, Past Simple, Past Progressive, Adjectives (comparatives and superlatives) - Practice Book pages 46, 47 and textbook p. 63

Writing: Text Page 51 and Practice Book page 34

Unseen: Practice Book page 26, 27, 31, 32, 33
Review "how to take a test" 
main sentence, topic sentence......etc.

Tips
* Go over/ Review class website 
* Test Preparation includes practice book pages 44b, 45c, 46, 47, 49, 51b, 59-60, 
and "test yourself" 61-63

Superlatives and Comparatives.......   page 69 textbook
                                                            page 46,47 practice book

                      Good, better, best
                       You never let it rest
                      Until your good is better
                       and your better is best

Write 5 superlatives and 5 comparatives complimenting yourself and others using the list below

Tall                                     quiet                                    creative                             interesting
Credible                              funny                                  original                             old
Stylish                                strong                                  studious                             fast
Wise                                    friendly                               wonderful                         young
Long                                    imaginative                        fashionable                       fantastic

Kelly Clark - What Doesn't Kill You... Comparatives

"What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)"

Kelly Clarkson

You know the bed feels            (warm)
Sleeping here alone
You know I dream in colour
And do the things I want

You think you got          (good) of me
Think you've had the last laugh
Bet you think that everything good is gone
Think you left me broken down
Think that I'd come running back
Baby you don't know me, cause you're dead wrong

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little            (tall)
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even            (light)
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

You heard that I was starting over with someone new
They told you I was moving on over you

You didn't think that I'd come back
I'd come back swinging
You try to break me, but you see

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

Thanks to you I got a new thing started
Thanks to you I'm not the broken-hearted
Thanks to you I'm finally thinking about me
You know in the end the day you left was just my beginning
In the end...

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone

[2x]
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

(When I'm alone)

2. Cristina Aguilera – Fighter

So I wanna say thank you
‘Cause it
Makes me that much stronger
Makes me work a little bit harder
Makes me that much wiser
So thanks for making me a fighter
Made me learn a little bit faster
Made my skin a little bit thicker
Makes me that much smarter
So thanks for making me a fighter

3. Kanye West – Stronger

N-na-now th-that that don’t kill me
Can only make me stronger
I need you to hurry up now
Cause I can’t wait much longer
I know I got to be right now
Cause I can’t get much wronger
Man, I’ve been waiting all night now
That’s how long I’ve been on ya

4. Justin Bieber – Never Say Never

Now he’s bigger than me
Taller than me
He’s older than me, stronger than me
And his arms are a little bit longer than me
But he ain’t on a jb song with me.

5. The Corrs – Would You Be Happier?

Would you be happier if you were someone together?
Would the sun shine brighter if you played a bigger part?
Would you be wonderful if it wasn’t for the weather?
You’re gonna be just fine (gonna be just fine)

6. India Arie – Beautiful Flower

‘Cause you’re beautiful like a flower 
More valuable than a diamond 
You are powerful like a fire 
You will heal the world with your mind
There is nothing in the world that you cannot do
When you believe in you

7. Madonna – Deeper and Deeper

I can’t help falling in love
I fall deeper and deeper the further I go
Kisses sent from heaven above
They get sweeter and sweeter the more that I know

Songs

"Look What You've Done"

You have taken the heart of me 

And left just a part of me

And look, look, look what              1          (to do)

Well, you took all the best of me

So come         2       (to get) the rest of me

And look back, finish what      3       (to begin)

Be done


There is someone you ought to meet

It's me, Mister Incomplete

Look at what I've become

For it's due to the lack of you 

That I'm now only half of two

Look, I said back, finish what you've begun

Be done

Come and sit by my side

Where there      4       (to be) nothing to hide

And we'll try to decide

 
What       5       (to need)

But from where I        6        (to stand) today

I can't think of a way

Or the words that I might say

 
That could change your mind and make you stay

Oh no, not for all the times       7       (to plead)

Look (look), look (look), look what you've done

You have taken the best of me

So come get the rest of me

Look back, finish what you've begun

Oh, be done

Oh, be done

Oh, be done

"Your Song"

It's a little bit funny this feeling inside

I'm not one of those who can easily hide

I don't have much money but boy if I        1        (to do)

I'd buy a big house where we both could live


If I         2          (to be) a sculptor, but then again, no

Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show

I         3        (to know) it's not much but it's the best I can do

My gift is my song and this one's for you


And you can tell everybody this is your song

It may be quite simple but now that it's done

I hope you don't mind

I hope you don't mind that I       4        (to put) down in words

How wonderful life is while you're in the world


I sat on the roof and           5       (to kick) off the moss

Well a few of the verses well           6      (to have) me quite cross

But the sun        7       (to be) quite kind while I      8     (to write) this song

It's for people like you that keep it         9       (to turn on)


So excuse me forgetting but these things I do

You see           10         (to forget) if they          11        (to be) green or they're blue

Anyway the thing is what I really mean

Yours are the sweetest eyes     12         ever            (to see)   

And you can tell everybody this is your song

It may be quite simple but now that it         13         (to be) done

I hope you don't mind

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words

How wonderful life is while you're in the world

Advertisement and Symbolism and Adjectives

Advertisement and Symbolism

1) Describe the picture below using as many adjectives as possible. Competition between two groups applicable.  

Gold is the colour of Luxury. In many ads we can see gold colour. There are gold dresses, gold furniture and gold bottle. Gold is a trendy, sassy and sleek colour. It’s perfect for perfume’s ads. Gold is rare, so advertisers want to give the impression that the product is rare too.

Bob Dylan, Times They Are a Chang'in

Less than a month after Dylan recorded the song, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. The next night, Dylan opened a concert with "The Times They Are a-Changin'"; he told biographer Anthony Scaduto,

 "I thought, 'Wow, how can I open with that song? I'll get rocks thrown at me.' But I had to sing it, my whole concert takes off from there. I know I had no understanding of anything. Something had just gone haywire in the country and they were applauding the song. And I couldn't understand why they were clapping, or why I wrote the song. I couldn't understand anything. For me, it was just insane."^[9]


Match the words in the left column with the synonym in the right column
1) to clap                                                           a) to open
2) "i'll get rocks thrown at me"                         b) to applaud
3) takes off                                                        c) haywire
4) insane                                                            d)out of control

The Times They Are A-Changin’

WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN

Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And         1        (to keep) your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And        2           (speak neg.) too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there      3       (to tell neg.) who that it’s namin’
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who     4      (stalled)
There’s a battle outside and it (to rage)
It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road      5       (to change)    rapidly  

Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’

Copyright

© 1963, 1964 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991, 1992 by Special Rider Music

Who do you think wrote the song? 

Which words would describe the tone and feeling of the song from the list below? Justify your answer. 

upbeat, downbeat, origional, dispain, faith, suspicious, inspiring, folk, rock, pop, blues, spiritual, gospel, rap, jazz, country, heavy-metal, classical, poetic, metaphorical, general, specific, philosophical, simple, harsh. 

What was going on in the US in 1965 based on the lyrics in the song? 

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• Robert Allen Zimmerman was born in 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota and loved music, especially blues. He formed several bands and played so loudly at a high school talent show the principal had to cut the microphone off. He switched to folk music because, he said: “The songs are filled with more despair, more sadness, more triumph, more faith in the supernatural, much deeper feelings."
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• In 1963, he released his second album, “The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan”. It included what became the most famous song of the times, "Blowin' in the Wind". The album made Dylan a legend overnight. The Beatles bought it and said: "We just played it, just wore it out…it was incredibly original and wonderful.” It inspired a whole generation of musicians.
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• Dylan continued to have an important impact on the history of rock for many decades. He got a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by poetic power”. He still plays 100 dates a year.
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• There is a debate today about whether or not Dylan should receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Thousands of his fans, as well as literary critics, say his words are as important as those of any previous winners. His songs describe the latter half of the twentieth century and many have become traditional protest songs. Many believe he is the greatest living poet.
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• Sources: http://www.wikipedia.org/ and assorted biographies.

 

Writing:  Name a deceased musical artist that you think has quality music and justify your answer. 

Fire and Rain - past simple, present perfect, present progressive, present simple

JAMES TAYLOR LYRICS

                 "Fire And Rain"

Just yesterday morning, 

they        1     (to let) me know you were gone.
Suzanne, the plans they     2      (to make)

 put an end to you.

I walked out this morning

 and I        3      (to write) down this song,
I just can't remember who to send it to.

I've seen fire and I've seen rain.

I     4     (to see) sunny days that

 I    5     (to think) would never end.
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, but I always thought that I'd see you again.

Won't you look down upon me, Jesus,

you         6       (to have) to help me make a stand.

You've just got to see me through another day.
My body       7     (to ache) and my time is at hand and I won't make it any other way.
Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain. I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end.
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, but I always thought that I'd see you again.

(I've) Been walking my mind to an easy time, my back turned towards the sun.
Lord       8        (to know) when the cold wind  

      9       (to blow) it'll turn your head around.
Well, there's hours of time on the telephone line to talk about things to come.
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.

Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain. I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end.
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend,
but I always thought that I'd see you baby, one more time again, now.

Thought I'd see you one more time again.
There's just a few things      10        (to come) my way this time around, now.
Thought I'd see you, thought I'd see you, fire and rain, now.

1) Fill in the blanks

2)Words you don't know

3)Images

4) Select five most important words and explain why

5) One line that is your favorite and explain

6) Rename the title

7) Symbols/ metaphores? 

8) Topic/ Theme

9) Read the excerpt below. How does his biography show presence in his music?

Taylor faltered during his junior year at Milton, feeling uneasy in the high-pressured college prep environment despite a good scholastic performance.^[20] The Milton headmaster would later say, "James was more sensitive and less goal oriented than most students of his day."^[21] He returned home to North Carolina to finish out the semester at Chapel Hill High School.^[20] There, he joined a band his brother Alex had formed called The Corsayers (later The Fabulous Corsairs), playing electric guitar; in 1964, they cut a single in Raleigh that featured James's song "Cha Cha Blues" on the B-side.^[20] Having lost touch with his former school friends in North Carolina, Taylor returned to Milton for his senior year.^[20]

There, Taylor started applying to colleges^[22] but soon descended into depression; his grades collapsed, he slept 20 hours each day, and he felt part of a "life that [he was] unable to lead."^[20][23] In late 1965 he committed himself to the renowned McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts,^[20]Taylor earned a high school diploma in 1966 from the hospital's associated Arlington School.^[24] He would later view his nine-month stay at McLean as "a lifesaver... like a pardon or like a reprieve,"^[23] As for his mental health struggles, Taylor would think of them as innate and say: "It's an inseparable part of my personality that I have these feelings."^[22]

1966–1969: early career[edit]

Taylor checked himself out of McLean and spent a semester at Elon University before, at Kortchmar's urging, moving to New York City to form a band.^[24] They recruited Joel O'Brien, formerly of Kortchmar's old band King Bees, to play drums, and Taylor's childhood friend Zachary Wiesner (son of noted academic Jerome Wiesner) to play bass, and after Taylor rejected the notion of naming the group after him, they called themselves the Flying Machine.^[21][25] 

TEST PREPARATION

TEST PREPARATION 16.11.2016

GRAMMAR

Put the verbs in the correct form – present perfect/ past simple

p. page 10 practice book. + to leave, hear, fly

196- Grammar irregular list.

p. 84-91 grammar

Gerunds

A verb that ends in –ing that is used as a noun. For example….

Walking is really good exercise.

Practice book p. 8

VOCABULARY - Fill in the sentences with the correct word. Hebrew word fit into English text.

Write a sentence with each vocabulary word.  Have other students guess which to fill in the blank.

WRITING  a paragraph giving advice.

p. 6,7 practice book.

UNSEEN 

ALSO DUE: Practice book (unit 1) and Grammar book (unit 1, unit 4) 80% completed work of these sections is sufficient. 

Reading Project Rubric

READING PROJECT RUBRIC

MRS. MASRI | ENGLISH 9^TH a | 

            The reading project is meant to encourage literacy. In this project, lLearners present ideas and information in an organized, planned manner in a variety of formats in spoken and written English. Learners appreciate literature that is written in English and through it develop sensitivity to a variety of cultures.

STUDENT NAME:

Task	Comment	Points
Presentation: Information is neat and organized.
Written Presentation: The sentences are complete and grammatically correct.
Paragraphs show organization in structure and thought.
Shows understanding of concepts.
Creative.

Task	Comment	Points
Presentation: Information is neat and organized.
Written Presentation: The sentences are complete and grammatically correct.
Paragraphs show organization in structure and thought.
Shows understanding of concepts.
Creativity.

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