Linking devices
Overview
In this second advanced lesson on business, we'll focus on enhancing your students' writing skills through the use of linking devices. We'll be reviewing and practising various connectors and transition words. These devices are crucial for students to construct well-organized and coherent arguments in their writing, especially in a professional or business context.
The lesson plan begins with a boardwork suggestion to present a valuable subset of these linking devices. Students will then engage in a couple of collaborative grammar tasks designed to provide practical application and reinforce these devices in various contexts. To conclude the lesson, we have planned a fun group game based on a classic UK game show.
Lesson Outline
Classroom activities
Use of the board
Students review some useful linking devices that they can use to augment their writing.
If you already covered purpose, reason and result in Lesson 2 in our unit on the mind, you can either quickly revise it, or skip over it entirely. The topic of linking devices is far too broad to cover on the board in one lesson. Make your students aware of this, and highlight the need to study the topic at home. The board work below focuses on linking devices for condition and contrast. Step through and explain each grammar point, eliciting example sentences from your students and adding the best ones to the board.
Linked up
Students have to rewrite some simple sentences using linking words.
Sentence builder: Linking devices
Students will work in pairs to create grammatically correct sentences using a phrasal verb and linking word.
Suggested homework
Students have to write an article on a successful, well-known marketing campaign.
Classroom games
Family fortunes: Best-selling products
An adapted version of a classic UK game show that can be played in the classroom.
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