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Here students are walked through the steps in changing a given sentence from activevoice to passive voice. You should walk your students through these steps carefully tomake sure that everyone understands the transformation.These steps are practiced in Exercise 3. Here students have to underline the completeverb in a sentence, identify it as active or passive, and then rewrite it with the oppositevoice.Three Common Errors with Passive Voice (12.4)In this section, three common ESL errors with passive voice are explained.In Exercise 4, students must identify twenty underlined verb phrases (in the context of aparagraph about good oral presentations) as active, passive, or intransitive.Students must apply this information covered in 12.4 in Exercise 5, where students areasked to analyze the verbs in a paragraph from a college business coursebook. Studentsare to tell if the underlined verb phrases are correct or incorrect. If they are incorrect,students must edit the work. Students do the same type of activity in Exercise 6, whichuses a short essay on education in early colonial America.Exercise 7 gives students a chance to analyze usage or nonusage of passive voice in asource found in a newspaper, magazine, or website. Students are asked to analyze threetypes of articles in their source and make note of the occurrence of active voice, passivevoice, and intransitive verbs.Participial Adjectives (12.5)This section details problems that ESL learners have with present participle adjectives(interesting) and past participle adjectives (interested).Exercise 8 and Exercise 9 require students produce these forms and then identify them asan adjective or part of a passive voice construction.Exercise 10 asks students to scan a magazine, journal, encyclopedia, or the web for threesentences with participial adjectives.Exercise 11 is a review multiple-choice exercise about endangered species. Exercise 12is a short error identification and editing exercise. In Exercise 13, students pretend to benews writers as they do original writing that demonstrates their control over the passivevoice and participial adjectives.2
Top 20, Great Grammar for Great Writing, First EditionTeaching Noteshttp://esl.college.hmco.com/instructorsCopyright Houghton Mifflin CompanyChapter 13Logical ConnectorsOverviewThis chapter concentrates on the use of logical connectors in writing. Students areexposed to coordinating conjunctions, common subordinating conjunctions, transitions,and the punctuation rules that accompany them.Teaching NotesCoordinating Conjunctions and Their Uses (13.1)Coordinating conjunctions an integral part of the writing process. It is imperative thatstudents understand the form, function, meaning, and use of these conjunctions. Exercise1 asks students to identify all the coordinating conjunctions found in the passage (in thissection, all the sentences are compound.)Special Uses of and, but, and or (13.1.1)This section explains that coordinating conjunctions are not exclusively used forcompound sentences. This is a very important point to explain to the students, for itdetermines whether a coordinating conjunction will receive a comma or not. Exercise 2follows. When going over the answers, the instructor can point out that some of thesentences contain commas and others do not. Exercise 3 focuses on the function ofcoordinating conjunctions.Punctuation with Coordinating Conjunctions (13.1.2)Exercise 4 allows students to practice the rules of punctuation with coordinatingconjunctions. As a follow-up activity, Exercise 5 asks students to complete the sentencesfollowing the coordinating conjunctions.Cause and Effect with Subordinating Conjunctions and Transition Words (13.2)This section introduces students to other logical connectors: subordinating conjunctionsand transitions. Exercise 6 deals only with the connectors that show cause and effect.The punctuation rules for these items are important to highlight, especially the changes inpunctuation as the syntax of the sentence changes.Contrast and Concession in Subordinating Conjunctions and Transition Words(13.3)Common connectors such as although, while, and however are highlighted in this section.Again, the importance of punctuation cannot be underestimated here. Instructors maywant to show the many variations of using these subordinators and transitions by puttinga few sample sentences on the blackboard. Exercise 7 focuses on choosing the correct1
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