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Grade 6 - Lesson 5 - Don’t Run in the Classroom - 대교

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Hongsam:
I know that the issue of starting a sentence with "Because" was discussed earlier. I agree that when we are speaking and it's in reply to the question "Why?" it's totally fine. The problem is that on page 56, Let's Write 1, and page 60 it's being used on a notice. This is clearly not correct.

I told my kids this and they didn't seem to find it too difficult to grasp. 

Blinker0n:
A powerpoint about public saftey signs to go with the writing activity

Hongsam:
I've adapted a ppt of Richardjw84's to use in lesson 5-3 or 5-4.

It's a reading and writing activity.

CAdreamin:
Whiteboard speed writing game  ;D
If the game is too short, you can read phrases/sentences for kids to hear and speed write after the slides run out!

evaninjinsari:

--- Quote from: Hongsam on May 18, 2012, 08:47:07 AM ---@ evaninjinsari

I'm afraid I'm going to stick to my guns on this one.

Noise is indeed both countable and uncountable. In the context of the book, a classroom or a library, it should be used in a countable form.

The noise we wish to prevent coming from a group of people is a concrete, specific, identifiable thing. The noise coming from an individual within that group is also a specific, identifiable thing. We don't want a noise. Not even one.

It might be useful to substitute the word "noise" with "mess." What would you say then?

--- End quote ---

I don't hold an advanced linguistics degree yet, so i can't claim to be an authority from a linguistic standpoint. But as a 37 year old native English speaker (a noisy one  who is often told to be quiet on a very regular basis), I can simply state from experience that nearly all Americans in this situation would not say don't make a noise. I believe, in most situations, Americans would not say make "a" noise. Maybe in a horror movie when you're hiding in the closet and the killer is coming for you and your friend, you can whisper "Don't make a noise." Because one single noise could get you killed.  But in a library, we essentially are saying "Don't make any of the kinds of things that could be considered noises. Don't burp, don't fart, don't talk loud, don't make your chair squeak..." (Mass/uncountable usage)

Don't make a mess is a distinctly separate case. The single, discreet mess in this sentence is the one that your Mom doesn't want to clean up or the one that you will be cleaning up if you don't do as you are told. (discreet, specific countable usage)

With that said, English is by design, a transmutative language and is not spoken the same way in every place.  So if you are comfortable with your viewpoint, and it helps you to improve your kids' English language abilities, then I salute you. ;D

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