Writing & Linking Devices in the text

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Writing & Linking Devices

part of your points are given for LINKING text well.
So, let's practise!

Which linking words do you know?

.... let's look at the following text ...

Now, let's find out more about linking devices ourselves....

In your group, match the WORDS with the CATEGORIES of words that make better links in a (written text).

When you are done, ask for the list of answers
Compare
Which ones are new to you in some way?
==> try to use those in the assignment later on!

connectives

and, but, or, either . . . or
when, while, until, before, after, as soon as where
because, since, as, for
so that, (in order) to
so, so . . . that, such . . . that
if, unless
although, while, whereas

pronouns

Personal (subject, object, possessive)
Reflexive and emphatic: myself, etc.
Impersonal: it, there
Demonstrative: this, that, these, those
Quantitative: one, something, everybody, etc.
Indefinite: some, any, something, one, etc.
Relative: who, which, that, whom, whose

Let's find substitutes in a text ourselves!

• READ TEXT B.
•
• UNDERLINE THE REFERENCE WORDS
• SHOW ARROWS TO THE WORDS THEY REFER TO
•
• FILL IN THE TABLE TOGETHER.

TEXT B

Until about 1960 the Eskimos lived a traditional life, grouped in small communities, each one containing about fifty people. Their homes were snowhouses and tents, the latter made from caribou skins. They traded furs with local trading companies to obtain equipment like strong wooden sledges.
In the 1960s the Canadian government took an interest in the Eskimos. It loaned money for fish-freezing and fishing boats. This was intended to develop and make stronger the economy. It also provided schools and health clinics. These were staffed by government teachers and nurses. Unfortunately, modernization has brought social problems too. The most serious of these is alcohol abuse.

fill in diagram

Eskimos ==> their

Now, the Real Writing Task!

• Question 7
• This is part of a letter you receive from an English pen friend.
• We're doing a project on life in the UK at school and I wondered if you could tell me something the life of the Eskimos.
You are writing a letter to this pen-friend.
Write the letter in about 100 words.

OR
    

writing ctd.

• Question 8
• Your teacher has asked you to write a story.
• This is the title of the story.

    A day in the life of Nanook, a 15-year old Eskimo
 
Write your story in about 100 words. Please remember to skip a line all of the time.

!!!

Pay special attention to the use of substitutes (this, it, they, first, such, etc.) and linking words (and, but, however, so, if, when, etc.)

Underline any of these words.