Module 4: People and Places around Me
Unit: Special People in Our Eyes

 

Procedures
Task 2: The Super Students in My Class

 

Part B: Writing a description of a super student

 

  1. Guide pupils to read all the points about the winner. Show different ways to organise the points into a piece of writing (e.g. elaborating ideas, combining ideas and deleting repeated points).

 

  2.

Demonstrate lexical substitution and expansion step by step by using a sample draft with many repetitions of ‘funny’ and ‘tell’. Have pupils think about how they can enhance the lexical richness of the sample. Guide pupils to avoid the repeated words and replace them with synonyms learnt before or vocabulary from the spider webs constructed in the previous lessons.


 

  3.

Guide pupils to expand the sample draft lexically by asking ‘wh-’questions (e.g. when, where, what happens next, how often).


 

  4. Ask pupils to work individually to write a description (LT 4.5) in support of their nominations.

 

  5. After pupils have finished their drafts, encourage them to improve their own writing by substituting synonyms for words that are repeated.

 

6. Encourage pupils to read one another’s drafts and ask ‘wh-’questions (e.g. when, where, what happens next, how often) to help their classmates practise lexical expansion.

 

7. Give feedback on pupils’ application of the verbs / verb phrases used in support of the nominations and their attempts in lexical substitution and expansion.

 

  8. Present the certificates (LT 4.6) to the winners of different awards and ask the groups to read out the descriptions of the winners.

 

 

 

 

 

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