Session 3:  Overview
 

Summary
In this session we will discuss anything you wish to discuss from the readings from last time as well as the new topic for this week,  THE VERB ( including modals).   SOME of you will also be assigned your first group project.   Check the group project assignment to see if your name is listed.  Each of you will be involved in TWO of the three group projects.

Lesson Goals
After completing the session, students will:

• Have an understanding of the following ideas:
•     transitivity;
•     voice;
•     mood;
•     aspect;
•     the subject-verb agreement paradigms.
• Have an understanding of the above regarding modals.

• Transitivity
• Subject-verb agreement
• Voice
• Mood
• Aspect
• Modals

Please remember to check Classroom Announcements in the Center.

Please check the syllabus each week for possible changes.

For the assignments from the Grammar Book, you will find group numbers indicated in the Center.  Notice that there are only three groups this time.  For this session your groups will be as follows:  Group 1 - if your last name begins with A through G.  Group 2 - if your last name begins with H through M.  Group 3 - if your last name begins with N through W.  Please post in the appropriate item, according to your last name;  however, feel free to read the postings from the other groups and respond to them if you wish.   I'm still experimenting with group sizes and will probably change them slightly each time.

• Read chapters 7-9 in the Grammar Book.  Spend most of your time and effort on chapters 7 and 8.  Read chapter 9, but don't get into it too heavily UNLESS YOU WANT TO.  Ask questions and make comments in the Center.
• Do the following exercises on your own.  (You don't need to post all of your answers in the Center.) Then compare notes and ask questions with your colleagues in the Conference Center:  Grammar Book, page 133, ex. 1 and 5;  pages 155-56, ex. 1, 3, and 5;  pages 177-78, ex. 6, 7 and 10.  Your postings in the Center should include questions you have or comments you wish to make on something in the assignment.  You can even vent!
• You may have noticed by now that each chapter has a section on Teaching Suggestions.  This is one of the most valuable sections for you and makes the book worth the money and worth a place on your shelf.  Choose one Teaching Suggestion from either chapter 7, 8, or 9 and discuss it in the Center.  Choose one that you have never used before but that you think would be valuable to try.
• Click here to find your first group presentation assignment.

For this session I have divided the lecture into two parts.
 

• Verbs
• Verb Complex