ESL worksheets and activities: Sentence structure 2

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Aim	To increase awareness of correct sentence structure
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What do I do?	1 Write the sentence on the board. 2 Divide students in to two or more teams. Explain that they must remove words from the sentence to make a shorter, but still grammatically correct sentence. 3 Teams take it in turns to remove words, according to the rules below, until the sentence has disappeared. 4 Erase the words as the teams choose them, making the sentence shorter and shorter. The team who removes the last word(s) is the winner. RULES You can remove one, two, or three consecutive words. The sentence must still be gramatically correct after you have removed the word(s). (optional rule) You can add or remove punctuation when you remove words

One fine sunny day, Harold, a pilot, ate a large breakfast as usual and drove leisurely to the airport, where he parked his brand new sports car in the staff car park and took his seat in the cockpit of his aeroplane to fly hundreds of passengers to Singapore.

ESL worksheets and activities - Disappearing Sentence 2

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