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Workshop 2014-07-07 puppy story corrections

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  1. singular count nouns need an article
  2.  
  3. Grammar: count nouns / noncount nouns
  4. In life: countable things / uncountable things
  5.  
  6. He was walking and he saw A car.
  7. He opened THE door of THE car.
  8. ---
  9. Don't use "one" if you aren't counting something.
  10.  
  11. "I was walking and I saw 1 car." - probably wrong
  12. ---
  13. Your stories can be all present tense, or all past tense.
  14. Don't change from present to past to present.
  15. ---
  16. listen: you pay attention to a sound
  17. hear: you perceive the sound, but you aren't focusing on it
  18.  
  19. look/watch: pay attention
  20. see: no attention
  21. ---
  22. The puppies seem bored. seem + adjective
  23. The puppies seem like they are bored. seem like + sentence
  24.  
  25. They looked upset. look + adjective
  26. They looked like they were upset. look like + sentence
  27.  
  28. (Same rule for sound, smell, taste, and feel.)
  29. ---
  30. To talk about purpose:
  31. for + noun
  32. to + verb
  33.  
  34. He went to his house for his squirt gun.
  35. He filled it with water for the puppies.
  36. He gave them water to help them.
  37. He broke the window to save them.
  38. ---
  39. Daniel Alaya, ten years old, is walking down the street on a hot summer day. It is 92 degrees (33C). Daniel passes a parked car. He hears dogs barking, and he looks inside the car. Two puppies are in the car. The puppies look hot and thirsty. Daniel is worried about the puppies. "Maybe the puppies will die," he thinks.
  40.  
  41. Daniel tries to open the car doors, but they are locked. Daniel looks around. There are no people on the street. Nobody can help him.
  42.  
  43. Daniel runs home and gets his squirt gun. It is a big squirt gun--a "Super Soaker". It holds a lot of water. Daniel fills his squirt gun with cool water. Then he runs back to the car.
  44.  
  45. The car windows are open a little. Daniel squirts water at the puppies. He squirts water on their faces and into their mouths. For one hour, Daniel stands next to the car. Every five minutes, he squirts water at the puppies.
  46.  
  47. Finally, help comes. A police officer breaks a car window and opens a door. Daniel picks up the puppies. They are OK--thanks to Daniel and his Super Soaker.
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