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Writing About A Supermarket Scene: Level C - Writing
What do you see? What is happening? What is going to happen next?  Students describe a drawing of a supermarket scene that is full of problems and potential dangers. Group sets of fragmented sentences must be cut for this lesson.  A lesson for self study calls for students to write a categorized shopping list for their next trip to the supermarket.  

Topic Sentences and Detail Sentences: Level C - Writing
Students analyze a poorly written paragraph and work together to form a much clearer one.  More practice with identifying good topic sentences follows.  Students arrange given detail sentences to support the main idea, then work together to arrange the sentences a mixed-up paragraph.  Excellent scaffolding leads up to an individual assessment in which students write their own paragraph about a busy street scene.  Group sets of pictures and accompanying sentence strips must be cut for this activity.

Using Adjectives to Describe a Busy Street Scene: Level C - Writing
Students generate adjectives to describe: a classmate, their city, a table, how they felt when they started learning English.  They then generate more adjectives to describe a busy street scene, eventually writing a paragraph on their own.  Group sets of fragmented sentence cards must be cut for this lesson.

Using Adjectives to Describe a Supermaket Scene: Level C - Writing
Students generate adjectives to describe: a classmate, their city, a table, how they felt when they started learning English.  They then generate more adjectives to describe a supermarket scene, eventually writing a paragraph on their own.  Group sets of fragmented sentence cards must be cut for this lesson.

Using the Simple Past and the Present Perfect to Describe a Busy Street Scene: Level C - Writing Lesson

Students describe different people, things and actions happening in a busy street scene.  They practice determining whether actions were completed at a known or unknown time.   Students complete a short questionnaire and compose sentences in the simple past and present perfect with “just”.  Students compose a paragraph that includes the simple past and the present perfect.  A self study lesson calls for students to summarize past work experience using the simple past and present perfect.