Lesson 1 conjunctions and punctuation

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Today

What do you want?

Who are you?

Story writing

The technical side...

A competition???

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Lesson aim

Learning why we use conjunctions

Creating fun stories

What do you want?

Who is who?

Get a blank piece of paper

On one side, draw yourself

On the other, answer these

 questions:

We will try to guess who is who...

Hair colour

Eye colour

Age:

Favourite food:

Favourite subject:

Reason for going to TTO:

Funniest memory:

1 hope for the future:

What are conjunctions?

Conjunctions - voegwoorden          

Words that connect parts of sentences

Learn what they mean - that helps! 

Examples

Cameron and David stopped fighting and said sorry.

Neither David, nor Cameron had wanted to fight.

As they ran through the corridor David fell, because, the floor was rotten.

Even though it wasn't Camerons fault, David got angry!

I like sugar in my tea, _________ I don't like milk in it.

1. and
2. but
3. or
4. so

I like ham ____ cheese with my bread.

1. and
2. because
3. but
4. or

Is it Thursday _________ Friday today?

1. and
2. but
3. or
4. then

He was late __________ the bus didn't come.

1. although
2. because
3. but
4. or

We were very tired __________ happy after our flight to Sydney.

1. and
2. but
3. or
4. so

The sun was warm, __________ the wind was a bit too cool.

1. after
2. nor
3. so
4. but

I will go to Montreal .... Quebec for the weekend, I'm not sure.

1. yet
2. for
3. nor
4. or

He was late and ..... was I.

1. but
2. so
3. if
4. nor

Should I stay .... should I go?

1. and
2. but
3. or
4. so

I like coffee .... my friend prefers tea.

1. since
2. but
3. so
4. for

Lesson 2

Today

Punctuation

Synonyms and antonyms

Let's write!

Aim

Using what you learned last week and this week to improve your writing

Understanding how to write an interesting story (for your reader)

Synonyms and Antonyms

On the next slide you'll find a video explaining what synonyms and antonyms are. Watching this video helps you do the assignments for this week.

It is a good idea for you to take notes while watching, so that you can look back at them later on.

Let's try some

Synonyms and antonyms of...

Happy

Angry

Pretty

Nice

Good

Sad

Type writer game...

ravi was a funny kid

would you like a twix or mars

i play football twice a week and i swim on sundays

stop shouting please lisa

Type writer game

Capital letter - hand on your head

Space push hands down

Punctuation? Draw it in the air

Type writer game...

Ravi was a funny kid.

Would you like a Twix or Mars?

I play football twice a week  and I swim on Sundays.

Stop shouting please Lisa!

Your turn

In groups of 5

Write a sentence about your weekend plans

Write the correct punctuation

Now type it out with correct punctuation and capital letters!

We will write down what you say - any corrections?

Dilemmas

1. Never have a holiday again or never have a weekend again
2. A strict teacher and great grades, relaxed teacher and terrible grades
3. Go back to primary school or speak like a baby for the rest of your life
4. Toothpaste made of slug slime or toliet paper made of sand paper (schuur papier)

Story structure...

Is this fun...

Ask yourself...

1 Who is your character?  (begin)

2 What happens to them? (middle - conflict)

3 How does your charcater change? (End)

This is what we want!

This is what we want!

ASSIGNMENT

Write a story 100-150 words long

Use one of the dilemma's

Use conjunctions

Check punctuation

Use adjectives and adverbs

Use synonyms and antonyms of words you already know

What makes your story exciting to read?

I know what synonyms and antonyms are

😒🙁😐🙂😃

I know how to make stories more interesting...

😒🙁😐🙂😃

Flash Fiction 

competition!

Flash Fiction 

2 students from our school had stories

published last year

Listen to their examples...

Are you up for the challenge?

See you next week!!!

Next lesson - write a 'spark moment'for a story 

3 entries

We can send 3 stories to the jury!

AHA-moment

• Think of interesting things that you have learned from today's or yesterday's lessons (any subject).

AHA-moments

Pick one and and answer these questions:

• What strikes you about the AHA moment? 
• What moved you? Or made you think?
  
   Look at the AHA moment differently:
• What if it took place in a different time?
• What if I look at it from a different perspective:
    a different person, thing?
  
• What if it took place in a different place?

Flash Fiction rules

• Spark description: max 75 words.
• Story: max 150 words.
• Hand both in before Februari 11th. 

SOAP - basics of flash fiction

• Specific: 1 place & time, 1 event, max 2 characters (112).
• Omission: leaving things out for the reader to figure out.
• Action: in medias res.
• Precision: vocabulary & grammar. 

Examples

last year's winners