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Aiming for Levels 4 to 6, Lesson 14

Smart English: Survival. Animal survival (part one). Aiming for Levels 4 to 6, Lesson 14. Smart English: Survival – Animal survival (part one). Learning objective:. To understand how to vary sentence structure for effect (WAF5). Learning outcome:.

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Aiming for Levels 4 to 6, Lesson 14

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  1. Smart English: Survival Animal survival (part one) Aiming for Levels 4 to 6, Lesson 14

  2. Smart English: Survival–Animal survival (part one) Learning objective: To understand how to vary sentence structure for effect (WAF5) Learning outcome: To rewrite a paragraph, using a variety of sentence structures to engage the reader Aiming for Levels 4 to 6, Lesson 14

  3. Smart English: Survival–Animal survival (part one) Activity: Look at the verbs below and think about the kind of scene they could describe. Then choose four of them and write a paragraph that uses the verbs you have chosen. Try to make your paragraph as exciting as possible. THRASHING pulled splashed crashing flickered lunge sink Aiming for Levels 4 to 6, Lesson 14

  4. Smart English: Survival–Animal survival (part one) The writer creates a sense of tension and shock in this extract by varying the sentence structure and length … Aiming for Levels 4 to 6, Lesson 14

  5. Smart English: Survival–Animal survival (part one) Sentence types Simple An independent clause that expresses a complete idea. A simple sentence contains a subjectand a verb.For example: The lightson the ship flickered. Complex A complex sentence contains at least one main, independent clauseand a subordinate clause.For example: Although the waves were thrashing against me, I managed to sink myself into the lifeboat. Aiming for Levels 4 to 6, Lesson 14

  6. Smart English: Survival–Animal survival (part one) Key Simple Complex The elements allowed me to go on living. The lifeboat did not sink. Richard Parker kept out of sight. The sharks prowled but did not lunge. The wavessplashed me but did not pull me off. I watched the ship as it disappeared with much burbling and belching. Lights flickered and went out. I looked about for my family, for survivors, for another lifeboat, for anything that might bring me hope. There was nothing.Only rain, marauding waves of black ocean and the flotsam of tragedy. The darkness melted away from the sky. The rain stopped. Aiming for Levels 4 to 6, Lesson 14

  7. Smart English: Survival–Animal survival (part one) Activity: Rewrite the paragraph below, using a variety of simple and complex sentences for effect. I could smell the boy and I was hungry and I also felt seasick from the rocking boat and I wanted to jump in the water, but I felt if I jumped in the water there would be no land. I remembered the cage tipping and I fell out and then I jumped through the air and landed in a smaller boat and then there was rocking and I started to feel sick. I could feel the power of my body creeping away from me and there was a smell of death in the air and I wanted to eat. Aiming for Levels 4 to 6, Lesson 14

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