Download Rick's Handouts Administrative Semester Calendar Card (information to fill out) Class Writing Procedures paper (lined paper for writing essays and dictations) Course Outline Student Questionnaire Composition and Writing Mechanics Capitalization Rules Capitalization and Punctuation Rewrite the sentences with capital letters where needed, and insert necessary apostrophes and hyphens. (Periods and commas are supplied.) Comma Rules Punctuation and Capitalization- 25 different quizzes/8 Q's each Punctuation and Capitalization Story #1 Punctuation and Capitalization Story #1 Answer Key Punctuation and Capitalization Test- 24 Q's The First Thanksgiving (punctuation exercise) The First Thanksgiving Answer Key LaGuardia College (Punctuation and Capitalization Story #3) History of Jamestown (Punctuation and Capitalization Story #4) History of Jamestown (Punctuation and Capitalization Story #4 KEY) Composite Adjectives (adjectives with hyphens: a four-year-old girl, a two-ton truck) Error Tracking Sheet Paraphrasing and Quotation (an information sheet) Sentence Combining Transition Words and Phrases (Linkers) Relating Ideas with Transition Words (exercise) Relating Ideas with Transition Words (Answer Key) Writing Samples, Topics and Prompts Emotional Memories (questions to talk or write about) Rick's Experiences (a composition that uses both past tense and present perfect) The Expository Essay (The Joy of Mass Transportation) A Revised Composition (for The Joy of Mass Transportation) The Expository Essay: Ten Possible Angles (Capital Punishment, an essay that has the modal should and uses various perspectives or angles for creating paragraphs regarding a controversial topic) Johanna Biographies (ESL099.3351) Partner Biographies (ESL099.3351) 65 Interview Questions for Partner Biographies An Accident in Mellowtown (write a radio report about a truck that lost its chickens) Chicken Accident Picture (for the above radio report) Dating Service Questions and Vocabulary from eHarmony.com Verb + Infinitive Questions (writing about Educational Goals) Animals for Clothing (a writing prompt for an expository/opinion essay that decries the use of animals for fur coats) In Defense of Fur Coats (an expository/opinion essay by Betsy Hart that defends the use of animals for fur coats) My Educational History (a narrative essay) My Educational History (with numbers defending the commas according to the 7 Comma Rules) Halloween Story: A Night on Brickmore Hill [Finish the story, and make it scary.] Have You Ever...? (Present Perfect questions for a partner) Rick's Experiences Hopes and Dreams (focus: verb + gerund/verb + infinitive) If I Had a Hundred Million Dollars (practice with present unreal using would) If I Had a Hundred Million Dollars Picture Prompt (pictures to stimulate thinking about the above topic) Problems (creative writing activities) A Troubled Teen (write a story for a PBS After School Special) Mary's Problems (write a caseworker review about a woman in need of social services) Movie Critique of E.T.- discussion questions for writing a review of a film Should(n't) have and past unreal conditional [He should have set an alarm clock. If he had done that, he would have woken up on time.]) Marsha's Terrible Job Interview Tell how Marsha should have acted differently. Barry's Terrible Job Interview Tell how Barry should have acted differently. Job Interview Advice- group research and writing project Missed Opportunity A Decision That I Regret (an example essay) NYC: A Great Place to Raise Kids, a prompt for an expository essay NYC: A Great Place to Raise Kids, a guided essay, with topic sentences provided NYC: A Terrible Place to Raise Kids, an essay to disagree with, by "Dick Downer" NYC Vocabulary (six pages of useful NYC vocabulary for parks, museums, buildings, services, and so on) Pat the Pencil, a fantasy "biography" writing activity Stationery Vocabulary (for possible use in above activity) Rick's Resort- imaginary letter about a good or bad time you had there 50 Things People Regret Doing (to stimulate thinking about a time you were NOT proud of yourself) The Expensive Creamsicle- A Time I Was Not Proud of Myself #1 My First Affair- A Time I A Time I Was Not Proud of Myself #2 Summer Is the Best Season (guided comp with vocabulary sheet) I Love the Spring (four-page picture handout showing scenes of spring) Spring Fun Calendar (some holidays and special events in spring) What Should Be Done About Media Violence? (a suggested approach to writing an opinion essay) Computer Information & Activities Attaching Files to E-Mail Bad Comp!- an editing and spell-checking exercise Cutting and Pasting Instructions Vacation (cutting extraneous paragraphs) Scrambled Letter (moving paragraphs by cutting and pasting) Finding and Replacing Instructions Making Accented/Foreign Characters with the Alt Key Patrick-Patricia- a find and replace exercise Guess What cover page Guess What program instructions [Guess What free software download page] Making Headers and Footers Using Hotmail for E-mail Moving the Cursor May Mutter: A Fanny Spiel Czech-Or Eggs-Her-Size Old MacDonald- advanced word-processing exercise Diagnostic Test (for general fluency) A Problem on the Planet Skronk (students fill in grammatically coherent endings of non-existent words) Dictations Diagnostic Dictation [20 questions, with many spelling demons] Adjectives Comparative/Superlative Fill-In Dictation Comparative/Superlative Fill-In Dictation Answer Key Comparative/Superlative Fill-In Dictation Pictures Ed/Ing Adjective Dictation (16 sentences with picture prompt) Ed/Ing Adjective Dictation KEY (the 16 sentences for picture prompts) Ed/Ing Adjective Dictation KEY for projecting (16 sentences for picture prompt, large font) Passive Passive Dictation #1 (104 words) Passive Dictation #2 (174 words) Passive Dictation #2 Pictures Like Water for Chocolate Dictation (with many ed/ing adjectives--see below) Grammar & Vocabulary Information and Exercises Participial "Emotion" Adjectives (ed/ing) Ed/Ing Adjective Exercise (100 fill-in sentences) Find an Emotion Adjective: Exercise with Picture Prompts 1 Find an Emotion Adjective: Exercise with Picture Prompts 2 Find an Emotion Adjective: Exercise with Picture Prompts 3 Adverbs of Frequency: Rules and List A Problem on the Planet Skronk (student fills in correct word forms of non-existent words by using knowledge of English grammar Adverbs and Adjectives: Rules for Spelling and Usage Adverb or Adjective #1: Exercise Animals and Their Sounds: Agreement Comparative and Superlative Adjective Rules Future Tense and Future Conditions Future Clauses (with when, as soon as, before, after) Future Clauses (fill-in exercise with when, as soon as, before, after) Use of If and Unless If and Unless (fill-in exercise) Grammar Diagnostic Exams Short Grammar Exam (one page, 20 questions- articles, verb forms, prepositions, phrasal verbs/count-noncount nouns) Short Grammar Exam KEY Indefinite Articles (a, an, some) Idioms with the pronoun it (it's hard, take it easy, etc.) Hard and Soft Negatives the other vs. another quiz Passive Voice (information sheet) Passive Quiz (Immigrants) Passive Quiz (Immigrants) KEY Past, Present and Future Passive talking about Halloween Halloween Pictures for Vocabulary (to go with the above) Passive Situations (exercise) (creating passive sentences based on given information) Passive Situations (exercise) KEY Passive Quiz, mixed tense passive voice Passive Quiz KEY Past and Plural (testing two grammar points together) Past & Plural Combination Exercise (151 questions, can be an oral or written exercise) (KEY pending) Past & Plural Combination Final (33 questions, can be an oral or written exercise) Past & Plural Combination Final KEY Phrasal (Two-Word) Verbs Phrasal (Two-Word) Verbs: Rules and short list 333 Phrasal (Two-Word) Verbs Phrasal (Two-Word) Verbs #1: Easy Exercise Phrasal (Two-Word) Verbs #1 KEY Phrasal (Two-Word) Verbs #2: Advanced Exercise Phrasal (Two-Word) Verbs #2 KEY Phrasal (Two-Word) Verbs Fill-In Exercise Phrasal (Two-Word) Verbs Fill-In KEY Plural Forms: Spelling Rules Singular to Plural Sentence Conversion Quiz Rules for Prepositions: In, On, At, To Practice for Prepositions: In, On, At, To 150 Prepositions with Verbs and Adjectives Assorted Prepositons Fill-In Mixed Prepositions: Fill-In Story (My Job at Papaya King) Mixed Prepositions: Fill-In Story KEY (My Job at Papaya King) Present Perfect Rules (with two dialogs) Past or Present Perfect Fill in the space with the appropriate form. Past or Present Perfect (projection) The above handout in large font for projecting on a screen. Past or Present Perfect KEY Dear Bobby (present perfect or simple past fill-in) Dear Bobby Answer Key (present perfect or simple past fill-in) Dear Mary (present perfect or simple past fill-in) Dear Mary Answer Key (present perfect or simple past fill-in) Have You Ever...? (Present Perfect questions for a partner) Rick's Experiences Pronouns and Possessives Exercise (Ben Franklin's Letters) How to Form Questions (Y/N & Info) Question Formation Exercise (Y/N & Info) Relative and Noun Clauses Rules Reported Speech Rules Reported Speech Fill-In (prepartion before doing the global exercises, below) Reported Speech Fill-In (KEY) (prepartion before doing the global exercises, below) Reported Speech Exercise #1: Dad's Not Coming Home for Dinner Reported Speech Exercise #1: Suggested Answers Reported Speech Exercise #2: A Bad Student Reported Speech Exercise #2: Suggested Answers Reported Speech Exercise #3: The Morning After Reported Speech Exercise #3: Suggested Answers Reported Speech Exercise #4: The UnhappyMother-In-Law Reported Speech Exercise #4: Suggested Answers Spelling Rules (doubling, dropping e, changing y to i) Spelling Quiz (ING Form, Past Tense) Spelling Quiz Key Unreal Conditionals: Rules for Present and Past (with a few exercises) Wish and Hope Rules (unreal and real conditions with wish vs. hope, 20 exercises) Wish and Hope exercise KEY Complete the Wish (picture prompts) Unreal Present (17 situations from which to make if...would statements) Unreal Present KEY Past Unreal Examples (statements made by Americans, taken from the Internet) Unreal Past (17 situations from which to make if...would have statements) Unreal Past KEY 100 Important Irregular Verbs (past & past participle list) Verb + Base Form List Verb + Gerund List Verb+Gerund Questions (questions with a verb+gerund focus) 52 Verbs Followed by Infinitives Verb+Infinitive Questions (questions with a verb+infinitive, about "Educational Goals") Verb Quizzes All About Electing a President (agreement exercise, verbs with or without s) All About Electing a President (KEY) Short-Term & Long-Term Memory (agreement exercise, verbs with or without s) Verb Combination Quiz- Rick's Resort (verb + base, gerund, or infinitive form) Verb Combination Quiz- Rick's Resort (KEY) Verb Combination Quiz- My Educational History (verb + base, gerund, or infinitive form) Verb Combination Quiz- My Educational History (KEY) Verb Forms Quiz- Lifelong Learningy (supply corrections for 33 verb form errors) Verb Forms Quiz- Lifelong Learningy (KEY) Rosa Parks Biography Quiz (fill-in the correct verb form) Rosa Parks Biography Quiz (KEY) Segregated Schools:Word Form Quiz (add endings to words where necessary) Segregated Schools:Word Form Quiz KEY (Jonathan Kozol's opinion of NYC education) Word order exercise (subject-verb-object-place-time) Reading Christmas Songs (secular and religious) Cinco de Mayo (two readings and a comprehension quiz) KEY: 1b, 2d, 3a, 4c, 5c, 6d, 7b, 8c, 9b, 10a, 11a, 12d, 13c, 14c Constitution of the United States Declaration of Independence Following Instructions (my version of an old classic, in which you're told to read everything before doing anything) Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" ("I have a dream" excerpt) Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" (entire speech) Segregated Schools:Shame of the City (Jonathan Kozol's opinion of NYC education) The Story of Halloween To Serve Man- a Halloween story Winter Fun holidays and special events Ode to Winter by Anonymous Lyrics to Spanish Songs, Beatles, and Musicals

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