Editing ESL/ESL class summaries and lesson plans (section)

== Sundays Mar 2 & 16 ==
Note: no class March 9

Opened with Hail Mary prayer

On Mar 2 we had two students, one of whom is taking the Arlington Adult Ed intensive ESL class. That student is working on Prepositions, so we spent these two past sessions reviewing how/why/what of prepositions and prepositional phrases.

Key ideas:

* prepositions connect a noun to another sentence part (a noun or verb) in order to add information to it
* prepositions are some of very common, constituting 8 of the top 20 most often used words in English
* prepositional phrases are modifiers - they add information
** prepositional phrases act as adjectives or adverbs
* the preposition is selected according to the type of modification needed
** location, distance, time, purpose, ownership. ,etc.

On March 16 

* Prepositions definitions worksheet
* practice problems for Arlington ESL class student's test the coming week
* such as

<blockquote>He wants to make a trip ____ the world.

Tom prefers to study  ____ the morning

I'll be away ____ ten minutes

I'll be back ____ ten minutes</blockquote>

* Answers to these questions are NOT intuitive
* but they are also not idiomatic - there is a rule:

<blockquote>He wants to make a trip __around__ the world.  << location & duration in terms of circling, from place to place ("around")

Tom prefers to study  _in___ the morning   << time & duration in terms of when an event happened ("in")

I'll be away __for__ ten minutes  << duration in terms of how long ("for")

I'll be back_in__ ten minutes  << time in terms of when the event will happen ("in")</blockquote>