Study Guide for Test #3 Celebrations & Daily Life

Study Guide for Test #3 – Celebrations & Daily Life

On the test, you need to write 3 paragraphs of 7-8 sentences about:

1. A Holiday/Celebration

Study pages 48-51 and 55-60 in your textbook

Review Homework #6 – My Favorite Celebration

2. A Typical Day in My Life

and

3. A Typical Day in My ___’s Life (friend’s, sister’s, son’s, mother’s – choose one )

Study page 65 in your textbook.

Study pages 90-92 in your textbook.
Review Homework #7 – Daily Life

You also need to punctuate some sentences for commas. Remember these 4 rules:
1. no comma when only 2 things in a list: He eats bread and butter. She likes apples and oranges.
2. add commas when 3 or more in list: He eats bread, butter, and jam. She likes apples, oranges, and grapes.

3. add a comma before but: I want to watch TV, but I don’t have time.
4. no comma before because: I do homework because I want to improve my English.

Practice (here OR on another piece of paper)

1. Write a few sentences about a holiday. Follow the example: (When? What do they do/say? What do they wear? What do they eat?)

In the United States, Halloween is on October 31. On this day, Americans wear scary or funny costumes. Children go to neighbors’ houses and say, “Trick or Treat”. The neighbors give them candy. Everyone eats a lot of candy on Halloween.

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2. Write a few sentences to describe your daily life.

I work five days a week. I go to school on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I do my homework in the evening. On weekends I clean the house.

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3. Write a few sentences to describe the daily life of a person you know.

My son goes to school at Avondale Elementary School. He is in third grade. He doesn’t take the bus or walk to school. I drive my son to school.

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