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Understanding Cause and effect

1. Cause: A storm hit the city.

Effect: All the residents fled.

Sentence: A storm hit the city, so all the residents fled.

2. Cause: I planted some trees.

Effect: Trees grow.

Sentence: Trees grow because I planted some trees.

3. Cause: My sister stayed up past midnight.

Effect: She relax a little and sleep a little.

Sentence: My sister stayed up past midnight was the reason for the relax and sleep a little.

4. Cause: Lena missed school on Monday.

Effect: Lena don’t study on Monday .

Sentence: Lena don’t study on Monday was caused by the missed school on Monday.

5. Cause: David signed up for French classes.

Effect: David study French classes. David speaks French very well.

Sentence: David signed up for French classes were the cause of the study French classes

Be Ready for Our First Class Discussion

Don't forget to read and well prepare for our first class discussion (for 5 points)

This time, we are going to discuss 2 main story:

Unit 1: 
The ant and the Grasshopper 

One summer day a grasshopper was singing and chirping and hopping about.  He was having a wonderful time.  He saw an ant who was busy gathering and storing grain for the winter. 

“Stop and talk to me,” said the grasshopper.   “We can sing some songs and dance a while.”

“Oh no,” said the ant.  “Winter is coming.  I am storing up food for the winter.  I think you should do the same.”

“Oh, I can’t be bothered,” said the grasshopper.  “Winter is a long time off.   There is plenty of food.”   So the grasshopper continued to dance and sing and chip and the ant continued to work.When winter came the grasshopper had no food and was starving.  He went  to the ant’s house and asked, “Can I have some wheat or maybe a few kernels of corn.  Without it I will starve,” whined the grasshopper.“You danced last summer,” said the ants in disgust.   “You can continue to dance.”  And they gave him no food.

Unit 2: 

Box of kisses

The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became infuriated when the child tried to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree. Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, "This is for you, Daddy." He was embarrassed by his earlier over-reaction, but his anger flared again when he found the box was empty. He yelled at her, "Don’t you know that when you give someone a present, there’s supposed to be something inside it?"

The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and said, "Oh, Daddy, it is not empty. I blew kisses into the box. All for you, Daddy."

The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her forgiveness. It is told that the man kept that gold box by his bed for years and whenever he was discouraged, he would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.

In a very real sense, each of us as humans have been given a gold container filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, friends, family or God. There is no more precious possession anyone could hold. 
 
Quiz ลองทำดูนะครับ

http://www.mcwdn.org/fables/antgrass/antgquiz.html

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Predicting Outcomes

You can make a prediction when you use clues from the story, together with what you know from your own experiences, to
figure out what will happen next.

Read each paragraph and make a prediction. Look for clues.

QUIZ
http://www.shsu.edu/~txcae/Powerpoints/prepostest/predict1pretest.html

Because writers don't always say things directly, sometimes it is difficult to figure out what a writer really means or what he or she is really trying to say. You need to learn to "read between the lines" - to take the information the writer gives you and figure things out for yourself.

You will also need to learn to distinguish between fact and opinion. Writers often tell us what they think or how they feel, but they don't always give us the facts. It's important to be able to interpret what the writer is saying so you can form opinions of your own. As you read an author's views, you should ask yourself if the author is presenting you with an established fact or with a personal opinion. Since the two may appear close together, even in the same sentence, you have to be able to distinguish between them.

The key difference between facts and opinions is that facts can be verified, or checked for accuracy, by anyone. In contrast, opinions cannot be checked for accuracy by some outside source. Opinions are what someone personally thinks or how he/she feel about an issue. Opinions by definition are subjective and relative.

Exercises

http://sixthsense.osfc.ac.uk/english/new_quizes/fact_opinion.asp
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/~steuben/factopinion.htm

Drawing Conclusions

Drawing Consclusion refers to information that is implied or inferred.This means that the information is never clearly stated.

Sometimes a passage may contain ideas that are not stated directly.Then you must draw a conclusion.When you do this,
you decide what facts mean.

QUIZ

http://www.shsu.edu/~txcae/Powerpoints/prepostest/drawconclusionspostest.html