Aiming for Levels 5 to 7, Lesson 14

Smart English: Survival

Animal survival

(part one)

Smart English: Survival – Animal survival (part one)

Learning objective:

To understand how to vary sentence structure for effect (WAF5)

Learning outcome:

To write a paragraph, using a variety of sentence structures to engage the reader

Success criteria:AF Level 5 / All students can … Level 6 / Most students can

…Level 7 / Some students can …

WAF5 Vary sentence length, structure and subject for clarity and emphasis

Alternate between simple and complex sentences for purposeand effect

Deliberately design sentences for purpose and effect

Aiming for Levels 5 to 7, Lesson 14

Aiming for Levels 5 to 7, Lesson 14

Smart English: Survival – Animal survival (part one)

An independent clause that expresses a complete idea. A simple sentence contains a subject and a verb. For example:

The lights on the ship flickered.

A complex sentence contains at least one main,

independent clause and a subordinate clause. For example:

Although the waves were thrashing against me, I managed to sink myself into the lifeboat.

Sentence types

Simple

Complex

Aiming for Levels 5 to 7, Lesson 14

Smart English: Survival – Animal survival (part one)

The elements allowed me to go on living. The lifeboat did not

sink. Richard Parker kept out of sight. The sharks prowled but

did not lunge. The waves splashed me but did not pull me off.

I watched the ship as it disappeared with much

burbling and belching. Lights flickered and went out. I looked

about for my family, for survivors, for another lifeboat, for

anything that might bring me hope. There was nothing. Only

rain, marauding waves of black ocean and the flotsam of tragedy.

The darkness melted away from the sky. The rain

stopped.

SimpleComplex

Key

Aiming for Levels 5 to 7, Lesson 14

Smart English: Survival – Animal survival (part one)

I was hungry. Although I felt seasick, I could smell the boy …