each member of his group. He will appoint a t secretary to keep notes of the suggestions. Consider how accidents occur from fire, water, ga light, windows, stairways, traffic, things out of plac "dares," playing jokes, neglect, and wearing out of Stick to your topic. Consider the above sugge applied to it. Then try to add other causes of acci other suggestions for securing safety first. After fifteen minutes of group discussion the reassemble, with the president of the Junior Civi in the chair. Each chairman of a discussion group a report from the notes taken by the secretary. At t each report the president will call for other suggesti the rest of the class, who were serving on other co and discussing other topics. 113. An Enunciation Drill. Practice saying the short commands sharply, with good, full tone: 1. Halt! 2. Fire! е Fire! 4. Danger! e 1 n d 5. Help! 6. This way out! 7. Stop! Look! Listen! A Talk to the Class. Tell the class at least fi that you think most important in working for saf Choose one of the following. Outline what you wis Make your talks suitable for audiences of pupils fro one to four. Make your meaning very clear. I. At home 2. At school 3. On the street 4. On the children in the first four grades, or to four other clas 114. Writing a Warning Handbill. Observe our large American traction companies sends ou for "Safety First," printed in a leaflet and distrib the people. SAFETY FIRST! 1 Don't hang on to the back of a car, a wagon, mobile. 2 Don't cross the street in the middle of the block 3 Don't cross the street behind a car without lookin for approaching traffic. 4 Don't play on streets where there are car tracks 5 Don't put your head or arms out of car windows 6 Don't get on or off the car until it stops. 7 Always be careful saving time. -saving our lives is more imp at Home Make up as Each of these seven sentences could be follo sentence telling why. Make up such sentences. Select as your topic "Safety First School" or "on the Playground "). suggestions for safety as possible. Copy them in t the above model, with two vacant lines between To each sentence add a clause of reason (why) begi because or for." You have turned each sentence into a complex s adding a subordinate clause. Read each sentence o see whether you have made your meaning clear. any words that could be omitted. Have you prop tuated your sentences? How is a contraction writ The best group of sentences for each topic will b for a handbill to be placed in the corridor. the following sentences give you an idea of time. 1. Tom throws the banana skin into the garbage can. 2. Will threw the banana skin into the garbage can. 3. Ned will throw the banana skin into the garbage ca Three different boys are spoken of in these Which one has already acted? Which one is doing t ing at the present moment? Which one has not y the skin, so that his act of throwing will occur in th Ideas of time are expressed by what we call te verb form changes to show the three great tenses: Observe that throw and throws are present forms, t s being added to the verb when the subject is talk The past tense (threw) keeps the same form for all pe both numbers. The future tense is a verb phrase, shall is used with I or we as subjects, and will with subjects. Remember: The three principal tenses are the p past, and the future. The present tense adds s when the subject is spo or shall with the verb, shall being used with I A verb that helps another verb is called an auxi Shall and will, the different forms of the verb to be, had, and has are the most common auxiliary verbs i The auxiliaries have, has, and had are used to te action of the verb has been completed. Obser following sentences show: (a) action completed at time, (b) action completed at some moment in pas (c) action to be completed at some moment in fut (a) At last I have finished my poster. (b) I had finished my poster before Henry arrived. (c) To-morrow by noon I shall have finished my pos Because these three verb forms show that actid completed or is to be completed, that is, perfecte these forms perfect tenses. (a) Present perfect tense. Completed at the prese The engineer has signaled. We have stopped the train. (b) Past perfect tense. Completed at some past ti The engineer had signaled. (c) Future perfect tense. To be completed at some The engineer will have signaled. We shall have stopped the train. Remember: The three secondary tenses show compl The present perfect tense indicates action co present. The auxiliary is has or have. The past perfect tense shows action completed i The future perfect tense shows action to be co An Exercise. Using the model at the top of pag the six tense forms with I and he for call, beg, show |