Topic: Secondary

Goals

• Review a list of useful vocabulary and phrases for establishing continuity, cohesion, and structure in discourse.
• Apply knowledge of discourse structure to arranging sentences into an appropriate, meaningful order as an article.
• Analyse existing texts to identify elements that support the discourse structure of the texts.

Lesson Plan

Activity 1

Identify the Subject Complement in each of the following examples. Click on the words that mark the start and end of the Subject Complement.

Identify the Subject in each of the following clauses. Click on the word (or words) that comprise the Subject of each clause to select or deselect them.

In each of these examples the Subject is highlighted. For each one, decide whether or not the Subject identifies an agent (or more than one agent) who carries out an action.

Identify the Object Complement in each of the following examples. Click on the word (or words) that comprise the start and end of the Object Complement. (You can click again if you want to change your mind and deselect something.)

Identify the Indirect Object in each of the following clauses. Click on the word (or words) that comprise the Indirect Object of each clause to select or deselect them.

Identify the Object in each of the following clauses. Click on the first and last words of the Object of each clause to select or deselect them.

Identify the Adverbials in each example (there is only one in each sentence). To select a sequence of words, click on the first and last words.