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Aim To increase awareness of correct sentence structure
Activity
Organisation
Preparation
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

Jack was watching television late one night when he heard a very loud bang from somewhere outside: he got up from his chair and went to look out of his living room window and saw a beautiful display of fireworks in the sky.

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