Simple Sentences vs Complex Sentences

Date: Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Name of Activity: Simple Sentences vs Complex Sentences

Unit: English

Learner Profile: Thinker

Attitude: Communicator

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So yesterday, in English, my teacher said to the class to fix up the sentence: I love cooking. We came up with things that a boring sentence (simple sentence) has. The one I came up with was: not specific. After that, we came up with different ways to say I love cooking. We came up with only one but that's ok. The activity she asked us to do was indeed INSANE!! She was even SCARED to tell us! And we now all know why... she told us to come to a table. (my table) She got a whiteboard marker, eraser, and that spray thing that you use for erasing the whiteboard. She sat at my seat and then we all FREAKED OUT... can you guess what she did... she started WRITING on the TABLE with the WHITEBOARD MARKER!!!!!! I started freaking out inside my head! She wrote down I love cooking and her name in the corner. Then she asked the class some things we should change about the sentence. We came up with 2. Then everyone got paired up with their working buddies and did the same but with a different sentence. Me and my partner used I love reading.

How this activity showed being a Thinker was because you had to think of different ways to change simple sentences.

How this activity showed being a Communicator was because you and you and your partner had to talk with each other and agree on the things you want to change with the sentence you chose.

I think my partner and I did pretty good on the activity because we took turns writing down ideas on the table.