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Resource 1.1a

Self-portrait with bandaged ear by Vincent van Gogh 1889

The man is indoors. He is wearing a coat and a hat with black fur on the front. The side of his face has a bandage on it. He is thinking back to an accident he just had. He is probably in shock. He is staring out of the picture like a madman. His face is pale. He has lost a lot of blood. He will probably collapse in a minute.

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Resource 1.1b

What do you notice about the words at the start of every sentence?

The man is indoors. He is wearing a coat and a hat with black fur on the front. The side of his face has a bandage on it. He is thinking back to an accident he just had. He is probably in shock. He is staring out of the picture like a madman. His face is pale. He has lost a lot of blood. He will probably collapse in a minute.

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Resource 1.2

Targets for this unit of work:

• Vary my sentences in length and structure

• Use a wider range of connectives to show the links between my ideas

• Use commas correctly in long sentences

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Resource 2.2a

To vary my sentences I can start with:

an ‘-ed’

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• Exhausted, the man slumped onto the chair.

an ‘-ing’

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• Looking through the window, the girl gazes out at the world.

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Resource 2.2b

To vary my sentences I can start with:

a connective

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• Because he has been wounded, the soldier lies on the battlefield beneath the rearing horses.

a subordinate clause

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• As it was every day, the train was jam-packed with commuters.

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Resource 2.2c

To vary my sentences I can start with:

an adverb

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• Hurriedly turning away, the man shoves the money into his pocket.

a prepositional phrase

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• Underneath the tree, two men are deep in discussion.

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Resource 3.2

Changing sentences• The boy got into the

car because it was raining.

• The girl walked out of the door while her mother was talking.

• Change the main verb• Change the connective• Start with an adverb • Add a subordinate clause

• Start with a subordinate

clause • Start with a prepositional

phrase • Move the subordinate clause

Click the commands to see the sentence change.

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Resource 3.3a

Wind surfers

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Resource 3.3b

Wind surfers

Although the sun beat down, the sea was the colour of slate. Just the two of us were there, working the wind and the waves between the horizon and the shore, while the white foam boiled from the water under our speeding surfers. The wind was crazy. I was thinking that I must be crazy too, but it sure felt good, flying off the wave crests and into the grey-blue sky.

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Resource 5.4a

We use commas:• before but in compound

sentences

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• The girl walked out the door, but the boy got into the car.

• to separate the subordinate clause from the main clause when it starts a sentence

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• As the boy got into the car, the girl walked out of the door.

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Resource 5.4b

We use commas:• after a connective that

links across or between sentences

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• The girl walked out of the door. Meanwhile, the boy got into the car.

• around additional information in a sentence that can be removed without affecting meaning

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• The girl, throwing on her coat in a hurry, walked out of the door.

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Resource 5.4c

We use commas:• to separate items in a

list

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• The girl finished her coffee, threw on her coat, grabbed her bag and walked out of the door.

Change the main verb

• The boy got into the car because it was raining.

• The boy scrambled into the car because it was raining.

• The girl walked out of the door while her mother was talking.

• The girl stormed out of the door while her mother was talking.

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Change the connective

• The boy got into the car because it was raining.

• The boy got into the car while it was raining.

• The girl walked out of the door while her mother was talking.

• The girl walked out of the door although her mother was talking.

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Start with an adverb

• The boy got into the car because it was raining.

• Hurriedly, the boy got into the car because it was raining.

• The girl walked out of the door while her mother was talking.

• Suddenly, the girl walked out of the door while her mother was talking.

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Add a subordinate clause

• The boy got into the car because it was raining.

• The boy got into the car because it was raining, even though he had a coat.

• The girl walked out of the door while her mother was talking.

• The girl walked out of the door while her mother was talking, because she was rude.

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Start with a subordinate clause

• The boy got into the car because it was raining.

• Because it was raining, the boy got into the car.

• The girl walked out of the door while her mother was talking.

• While her mother was talking, the girl walked out of the room.

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Start with a prepositional phrase

• The boy got into the car because it was raining.

• Like a panic-stricken chimp, the boy got into the car because it was raining.

• The girl walked out of the door while her mother was talking.

• In a foul temper, the girl stormed out of the door while her mother was talking.

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Move the subordinate clause

• The boy got into the car because it was raining.

• The boy, because it was raining, got into the car.

• The girl walked out of the door while her mother was talking.

• The girl, while her mother was talking, walked out of the door.

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