LET'S REVISE

 Error Analysis             

The sentences /phrases below were selected from your own writing.

Work with your partner.

Decide what is wrong in each sentence. Underline and classify the mistakes as indicated in the grid, and try to correct them.

// missing word (s) (e.g. pronoun, preposition, part of speech, article, etc.)	-VF: verb form (e.g. ‘play’ instead of ‘playing)	-T: tense (e.g. ‘present’ instead of ‘past’.)	-WW: wrong word (e.g. ‘see’ instead of ‘watch’)
	-WO: word order	SP: spelling	-P: punctuation
-G: grammar (e.g. misuse of pronouns, subject-verb agreement, comparatives, (superlatives, articles, prepositions, parts of speech, etc.)

                                                                      

                

                                                                          

                          Example:  I wonder what would you like to study.    ( WO)

  Ø  Improved answer:   I wonder what you would like to study.

              

He lost sight for an infection.   Ten years after he invented the raphigraphy. He is remembered about his great invent. At 1929, with 20 years old…  He died at the age of 43 years of tuberculosis. Last Sunday I flight from Santiago to London. You’re responsable about the bags of your passengers. Do you think stay here for a long time? I suggest you to give me back my goods in a good situation. Louis could developed improvements on it. I will be gratefull if you could find my suitcase. The asistent of the fly told me what my suitcase it was lost.

                        Ø  Be ready to share your answers with the rest of the class

                      Now let’s review connectives:

            

Connectives

      Click on the link below and watch the one-minute video about connectives:

                                         http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic/connectives

•  Then try out this activity:

           http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/en28conn-game-is-this-a-compound-sentence

•  Next go to “Make compound sentences” and play the game.

         http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/en28conn-game-make-a-compound-sentence

• Last but not least, if you still have time to play, how about trying the logging sentences game? Can you link the sentence logs?  Good luck!

                           

                                http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/english/games?page=2

Homework

Go over  the factsheets in the link below. Print and complete the  worksheet (using connectives 1) for next class.

                              http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic/connectives/resources/l1