2019-07-29 Level 6: Unit 4 test

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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p. 53 - punctuation
. period (in writing), point (in numbers), dot (email and websites), full stop (British)
, comma
() parentheses (American English)
- ‒  –  —  ― dash
- inside a word like “three-page”: hyphen
: colon
; semicolon
bullet
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In pairs, read the description of the Volunteer Planner app.
part 1 - Answer these questions
1 potential users (individuals and organizations), potential investors
2 b - factual (It gives “dry” facts, but not in an overly technical way.)
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slot - a period of time that is available or used for a particular occurrence, event, etc.; place or position
	(We often use the term “time slot” specifically to mean space in a schedule.)
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part 3 a/b - Find examples of these punctuation marks and identify their uses in part b
1 semicolons, bullets (slightly informal, and especially common for more than three items)
2 colon
3 dash (specifically, the em-dash)
	There are several types: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash
4 colon
5 semicolon (It can go between independent clauses if you don’t want them in separate sentences.)
We visited Boston, Massachusetts; New York, New York; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Each list item includes a comma, so a semicolon is clearer between items.
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part 3c - Add punctuation to this sentence. (The book says to use two semicolons, but two commas also work.)
The three good reasons to use the Volunteer Planner are: to help you plan your volunteering; to help the organization; and—this is our sincere hope—to increase the number of volunteers.

- The comma before “and” in a list with three or more items is called the serial comma or Oxford comma.
- People have many opinions about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma
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p. 56 part 1 - Complete the article with the words from the box.
1 likelihood
2 chances
3 might
4 must
5 likely
6 probably
7 should
8 could
9 unlikely
10 need
part 2 - Answer these questions about the text
1 There’s always a catch.
2 Change how the energy grid is organized and produce our own energy.
3 pessimistic
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Other vocabulary review
p. 50 - “give”
p. 49 - partitives
	(You can learn these like any other collocation.)
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malapropism
example: “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes”
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https://books.google.com/ngrams/
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BREAK
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p. 46 - “come” phrasal verbs
come about = happen
come up with = think of; create (ideas)
come down to = have as the most important part
come across (transitive) = find or encounter by chance
come off = succeed
come up against = encounter an obstacle
p. 45 part 2 - collocations
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TEST