Writing and Reading

• Simple sentences
• Conjunction
• Making your sentences flow
 Simple sentence
• Subject + verb
– I play football
– He goes to school.

• Can also have:

• S+S+V
• S+S+V+V
• S+V+V
 S + V Formula
• S+S+V
– My mother and father speak English.

• S+S+V+V
– My mother and father speak and understand English.

• S+V+V
– My parents will move to a new house or live with my
older brother.
 ACTIVITY
• Write down 2 sentences each for:
–S+S+V
–S+S+V+V
–S+V+V

• Writing Tip
– Remember verb tenses
 ACTIVITY
• Read the text
• Underline the subjects with one line.
• Underline the verbs with two lines.
 ACTIVITY
• Write 6 sentences using any of the formulas.
• Swap with your partner and let your partner
decide what the formula is.

• eg
– Student 1: My younger brother goes to school and
works part time.
– Student 2: S V V
 Conjunction - connecting words
• And
– join two or more items in a positive sentence
• I love pizza and pasta

• Or
– join two or more items in a negative sentence
• I don't like hot dogs or hamburgers.
– Used for choices.
• Is this sentence true or false?
 ACTIVITY
• Connect the two sentences using AND / OR
 Making your sentences flow
• Important for academic writing.
• Rules
– Don't repeat words if possible.
– Only use words that are needed. You can remove
some words.
– Add words that you might need. (i.e. and)
 Example 1
• I am a man.
• I am famous.

• I am a man and I am famous.

– Good sentence, but it doesn't flow

• I am a famous man.
– remove "I am" because we don't want to repeat it.
 Example 2
• I have white hair.
• I have a long white beard.

• I have white hair and a long white beard.

– We don't remove "white" because it is important
information.
 ACTIVITY
• Combine the sentences to make one sentence.
 SPEAKING AND LISTENING
• Traveling

• Thomas Cook
• Package tours
 ACTIVITY
• Get in pairs (Student A / Student B)
• Ask the questions to your partner.

• RULES
• ASK the question
• Answer the question FULLY and IN DETAIL.
• LISTEN to the answers. If you want, ask more
questions on the subject.
STUDENT A (ask B these questions)
1. Do you like travelling?
2. If yes, why do you like travelling? If no, why don’t you like travelling??
3. What different kinds of travelling are there?
4. What’s the best place you’ve ever been to?
5. Would you like to go travelling for a few years non-stop?
6. What are the good and bad things about travelling?
7. If you could choose one place to travel to, where would it be and why?
8. Is it better to travel to a place or to arrive at that place?
9. "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and
rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." Do you agree?
10."Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens
the conversation." What does this mean? Do you agree?
STUDENT B (ask A these questions)
1. Do you like travelling?
2. If yes, why do you like travelling? If no, why don’t you like travelling??
3. What comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘travel’?
4. Are you a traveler?
5. Is travel an education?
6. Would you like to travel in space or to the moon?
7. Would you like to work in the travel industry?
8. What are the good and bad things about traveling first class?
9. What would make you wiser – travelling around the world for ten years or
reading 10,000 books? Why?
10."Travelers never think that they are the foreigners." Do you agree?
11."The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." What
does this mean? Do you agree?
 ACTIVITY
• Plan your ideas on what you will talk about.
• Remember! You are talking about the PAST!
(Past simple)