Writing: An experience — main idea and linkers

Curriculum topic

Grade

Grade 9

Subject

Английский язык

Term

4

Lesson

№ 96

Section

Science and technology. Unit 9)

Learning objectives

• 9.4.5.1identify the main idea from the context of long texts on most familiar general and academic topics
• 9.5.6.1write texts on familiar general and academic topics using various connecting conjunctions

Sample questions

1. 1
   Read: "Last year I built a small robot for the school science fair. It did not work at first, but after many tries it finally moved across the floor." What is the main idea?

   Building the robot took effort and patience Robots are very easy to build The robot won first prize The science fair was cancelled
2. 2
   Which linking word shows a result?

   although because however so
3. 3
   Choose the best linker: "I wanted to try the experiment, ___ I was afraid of failing."

   and because but so