Topic: Secondary

In this exercise, students make changes to pronouns in texts, and evaluate the effects of those changes.

Goals

• Identify first, second, and third person pronouns, and practise switching from one to another.
• Evaluate the effects of writing using different personal pronouns.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will make changes to existing texts by changing the personal pronouns in those texts.

In this lesson, students look at phrases conjoined by coordinating conjunctions.

Goals

• Identify different types of phrases which have been conjoined with coordinating conjunctions.
  
• Consider the effect of conjoining more than one phrase.
• Consider the effect of omitting coordinating conjunctions.
  

Lesson plan

Click on the interactive whiteboard icon (top right) and work through the following slides with students.

In this activity, students will be asked to find different ways to express a similar meaning. You may be surprised at just how many different ways you can find! The activity is based on an idea from Max Morenberg’s book Doing Grammar (3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 2002).

In this exercise you can see what happens when you move elements, particularly Direct Objects, earlier in the clause.