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Complex Sentences Using Conjunctions
By Verda McGraw, M.Ed.
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Expected Outcome: The person will speak using conjunctions to join words, phrases, and sentences.
Purpose: To teach the meaning of conjunctions and give practice using them in spoken and written language.
Target Vocabulary:
1. and
2. because
3. but
4. or
5. until
Target Language Skill: Using conjunctions
Suggested Objectives:
1. The person will say "and" to join words, phrases, or sentences of equal importance.
2. The person will say "because" to show cause and effect when joining phrases and sentences.
3. The person will say "but" to show exception when joining words, phrases, and sentences.
4. The person will say "or" to show choice when joining words, phrases, and sentences.
5. The person will say "until" to mean continuing of an activity or event.
Teaching Activities:
A. Speaking
1. Model and teach the target words. Explain that conjunctions join words, phrases, and sentences together.
2. Say some example sentences to the person. Then ask him or her to say the conjunction in the sentence, for example "We went to the farm and got some pumpkins."
3. Encourage the person to make up sentences using each one of the conjunctions in the target vocabulary.
4. Help the person recognize examples of conjunctions in other places, for example in homework assignments for other subjects, in spoken language that they hear others using, or in speech on radio or television.
B. Reading
1. Download the supplemental materials for this lesson, using the link at the end of the lesson. Read the storey together, or ask the person to read independently (according to the person's reading ability). Encourage the person to say the target words in the story.
2. Identify and read conjunctions in other reading assignments.
3. Identify and read conjunctions on web pages.
C. Writing
1. Connect the device to a computer with a USB cable or Blue Tooth module. Let the person practice wiring the target words into a word document.
2. Read the story again, and have the person write the conjunctions when you come to them.
3. Ask the person to make up a joke or a story using conjunctions.
D. Generalization
1. Find and say the other conjunctions that are in the device vocabulary.
2. Read example sentences that use these words. Ask the person to make up sentences, jokes, or stories using the other conjunctions that are not used in this lesson.
3. Store some jokes in the device.
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