Checkpoint lesson 4 article writing

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Today's planning:

Today's planning:

Fronted adverbial and prepositional phrase recap

Checkpoint article writing practise

Looking at the question

Aim: what is the correct way to structure an article

Which is a fronted adverbial?

1. She shut carefully the door
2. The door shut carefully
3. Carefully, she shut the door
4. She shut the door carefully.

Which is a prepositional phrase?

1. They in the old barn met
2. Out of pity he said he would
3. Better together
4. She saw a spider

Give an example of a prepositional phrase

Headline

Introduction

Subheading

Body paragraph(s)

Conclusion

The question

In pairs

For 3 minutes each question (for the article writing part)

Discuss all possible ideas - even ones you might disagree with

This is your chance to really think about the possibilities you can write about.

Only opinion - not fact based!

Your own plan

Write down how you'd like to answer the questions

Decide on how to introduce (remember to tell us what you will write about)

What body paragraphs will you have (linked to introduction)

Conclusion paragraph (sum up what you have written about - no new information here).

Writing an article

The introduction - LIGHT UP MY BRAIN!

Ideas

First sentence - light up your readers brain or they switch off

Keep it short and:

Ask a question or

Tell a story or

Tell them a shocking fact or

Tell them a very short anecdote

Tell the reader to imagine...

Examples

Imagine if you will. After a long day at school, and a long evening ahead of you that in the touch of a button help is at hand. I want to tell you about how learning to plan changed my life, how it gave me more time for fun and ow my grades are increasing with minimum effort. Sounds too good to be true right? Well read on for the best life hacks!

This article is all about how to plan your life. I will discuss how it may give you more time, how you may get to see your friends more and how important planning is. Teenagers are not good at planning. Here is how you should learn to plan to be better at it.

Your turn

Write an introduction paragraph for the Checkpoint article

Remember to include a headline

The introduction should also 'introduce' what you will write about in the article

Now write!

Finish writing your article for the next lesson

Length? Around 500 words - 1.5 sides of a4

You will get feedback on this!

What was the aim of this lesson?