Consolidation
A
The
following diagram shows a water treatment cycle. The basic idea
behind this plan is to
take used water, clean it and have it
used again (and so on). Write a description of this cycle
in
order to persuade your town/city council to investigate the
possibility of installing such a
system. Consider the
following factors when writing:
-
the best point to enter the
cycle, in order to explain it;
-
the
need to break down the cycle into stages, and the basis on which the
stages might be
defined;
-
the
need to use topic sentences for (a) the whole text and (b) each
paragraph within the text;
-
the need to vary sentence
structure (i.e. simple/compound/complex).
Use
the following as your title: 'Why waste used water?'
When your text is finished
show it to another student and ask her or him to comment on it, with
the relevance, reality and clarity principles in mind.
B It
has often been claimed that a poverty cycle exists in society: that,
in general, poor
parents produce children who will be poor
and who, in turn, will produce further children
who will be
poor, etc. In groups of five discuss this phenomenon. When you feel
ready,
write an individual text explaining the poverty cycle
and stating your own opinions
regarding its existence or
not. Be sure to support any claims you make.
C In
groups of three or four explore the notion of 'cycles', e.g. the
seasons, day and night, life
and death etc. What 'cycles' do
you know? Can they be divided into classes? Can you
define a
cycle? When you have discussed all the ideas sufficiently, write an
individual text
on the theme of 'cycles'.
Looking back
Now
that you have finished this unit you should be able to follow a text
with a cyclical structure, and decide where to begin when writing a
description of a cycle. You should be able to write clear and
suitable topic sentences. You should recognize different sentence
types: simple, compound and complex; and you should know how to use
them appropriately. You should also be able to write complex
sentences containing relative clauses of different kinds.
