Were going to look at prepositions, words that describe the relationship between a noun and some other word. Well also get the low-down on the question words who?, what? and where? But its not enough to ask questions if people dont know what youre talking about! So well also cover pointer words like this, that and there. Finally, youll learn about days of the week, the months, the seasons, and how to tell time.
Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)
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Possessives, Verb and Infinitive and The Past
Possessives give you the ability to say what belongs to you and what does not. But possessives in English can be a little bit tricky. When do you use my and when do use mine? Or her and hers? Well also show you how to stretch your conversations by using the present simple tense with an infinitive. Finally, well tackle the past tense with a look at the basics: was and were. Youll use them time and time again, from how was your day? to where were you?
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Regular and Irregular Past and Adverbs
Well begin by explaining regular verbs. These are the verbs you love in the past tense. They are solid, predictable, reliable, and regular all you have to do is add an ed. Then well move on to irregular verbs. These tricky verbs are unpredictable, unreliable, and dont follow a regular pattern. But if you really want to feel the vibe of your verbs, you need to add something: adverbs! These handy words describe how do you do the things you do.
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Reviewing the Basics
The Standard Deviants explain what “loners” and “dionza” have to do with the gender of nouns and how to use demonstrative adjectives.
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Irregular Verbs
The Standard Deviants introduce you to three classics of the genre: yo verbs, stem-changing verbs, and bizarro verbs.
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Verb Tenses
The Standard Deviants will teach you two easy verb tenses. With the help of Ferdinand and Sofia. Diego and Carmen, and the Crazy Ladies, we’ll check out the present progressive tense and the “easy” future tense.
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Spanish Prepositions
The Standard Deviants teach you all about prepositions – you know, words like “above”, “below”, “under”, and “over”. They’ll also throw in some Neat Zinger Tips, an intro to object pronouns, lots of cool dancing and some great moments in the history of Spanish.
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Changing Voices
First Nations filmmaker Lorena Todd leads us through the issue of cultural identity, interpretation and the changes in the images we see since minority voices are reclaiming the screen. From early images of ethnography from the Harlan Smith collection and early NFB ‘Voice of God’ documentaries, we travel through history to discover the stories as told by contemporary Canadian Aboriginal, Chinese, Japanese, Black and East Indian filmmakers.
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Starting From Scratch
While animation is often associated with Saturday morning cartoons, in the hands of independents, it is one of the most labour-intensive and awe inspiring modes of film expression. A look at the basic elements inherent and necessary to the creation of animation, with some playful examples.
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Film as Art
Light and shadow, rhythm and movement, pacing, anticipation, persistence of vision: all are elements which singularly and in combination distinguish film as ‘The Seventh Art.’ The striking visual beauty, the passion of the artists and the politics of the work are displayed through the celluloid’s most misunderstood but perhaps most challenging and satisfying form: the experimental film.