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At a Glance
Students
will: ü practise generating synonyms
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write and edit a simple story ürefine their use of written language |
Purpose: to develop students’ awareness of the subtle variations that they can employ by using more descriptive verbs (preparation for describing skills and resume writing) Materials: 1 hand-out Preparation: 10 minutes (to copy handout) Time: 60 – 90 minutes |
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Teacher’s Notes |
Procedure 1.
Write the verbs 'say, laugh, walk,
eat, think, drink' on the board and ask students to divide into small groups
to think up as many synonyms for these verbs
as they can. 2.
Once students have finished this
exercise, pool the results together as a class. You may want to have a
student take notes and photocopy the class results. 3.
Have students return to their groups
to do the exercise Interesting Writing (handout)
matching general meaning verbs to more specific verbs. 4.
Once students have finished, compare
answers as a class. Your acting abilities might be called for to explain the
subtle differences between a number of the verbs. 5.
Next, ask students to write a simple
story about something that has recently happened to them. Instruct them to
use simple verbs such as 'say, do, make, tell, walk, etc.' 6.
Have students pair up and exchange
their stories. Each student should then elaborate the texts of the other
student by using as many verbs previously studied as they can. 7.
Once students have finished and
compared their stories, the class can have some fun reading the stories
aloud. |
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