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Show Notes

In this episode, I provide an excerpt of a class that is designed to assist English language learners - at an A2 level - to complete a story (one paragraph long) that is inspired by an image (painting or a picture) of a cabin in nature. 

Content Objectives

Build vocabulary related to nature: objects, animals, emotions, five senses, etc.

Gain awareness of paragraph unity (staying on topic), coherence (organizational patterns), and cohesion (transitions)

Gain awareness of sentence types: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex

Gain awareness of parts of speech, types of phrases, and types of clauses

Gain awareness of comma usage: serial comma, compound sentence, complex sentence, sentence connectors, introductory phrases (five words or more), and appositives

Language (Linguistic) Objectives

Rheme and theme

Transitions

Comma usage

Descriptive texts using adjectives and prepositional phrases

Simple, compound, and complex sentences

Pedagogical Notes

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