Hebdomas Sexta - Wednesday- Task II

• PRE-READING QUESTIONS and ACTIVITIES FOR CHAPTER II

Open your textbooks to pages 6 and 7 and to spend two minutes looking at the picture, reading the "In This Chapter" box and the title of the story, and looking very quickly at the vocabulary list. Then ask the following questions, discuss, record answers:

a.  Whom do you see in the picture?

b.  What are the girls doing?

c.  What is the setting of the picture?

d.  What do you see under the tree?

e.  While studying Chapter 1 we talked about nouns, adjectives, and verbs.

On what are we going to focus in this chapter?

f.   Who can give an English sentence with a subject, a linking verb, and a complement? (See the "Constructing the Meaning" section in your book for help.)

g.  All the verbs in the story in Chapter 1 ended with the letter t; Two verbs in the vocabulary list for Chapter 2 end with the letters nt.  What does this mean about these verbs? (See the "Forms" section of your book for help.)

h. What plural noun do you see in the vocabulary first? 

• KEY GRAMMAR TERMS (find the answers in your book's grammar section):

subject

verb

linking verb

complement

Sentences in which you have to supply the subject:

Cornelia est laeta quod iam in villa habitat.
The second part of the sentence, after the conjunction "quod" doesn't have an expressed subject. You must take the subject from the first part of the sentence and supply the pronoun "she."

• LISTEN TO AUDIO FOR "A SUMMER AFTERNOON": 02 Audio 01, 02 Audio 02, 02 Audio 03-Vocabulary