8 pages 82–83 Sample notes and essay question
8.4 Extending skills
8.4 Extending skills CB
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Vocabulary Bank Skills Bank
SKILLS BANK 8.1 Planning a written assignment
T is lesson gives students an opportunity to make an essay plan, expand a set of notes into complex sentences and to write an essay. It provides them with further practice in identifying the type of essay required by a title, creating topic sentences and expanding them into paragraphs. T ey also practise writing complex sentences with passives.
Lesson aims
At the end of this lesson, students should: • have practised creating topic sentences from notes • have identifi ed an essay type from a title
• have researched, planned and written an essay on a primary care topic
Introduction
Remind students that academic texts typically consist of sentences with several clauses and that this activity will help them to create these types of sentences. Give the following simple sentences (or make your own) and ask students to add some more clauses to them:
Profi ling identifi es patients likely to develop specifi c conditions.
Screening means testing for a specifi c condition. Prevention is the belief that disease should be avoided.
Targeting disease-linked behaviours can provide huge benefi ts. A
Elicit from students which essay question from Lesson 8.2 the notes are likely to belong to (question a).
Set for individual work and pairwork checking. Remind students that they should try to make sentences in a good ‘academic’ style. Also remind them to use passives where necessary/possible, and to look out for ways of making dependent clauses, e.g., with relative pronouns or subordinating conjunctions. T ey will also need to pay attention to making correct verb tenses.
Elicit and visually feed back some answers. Suggested answers are given below, but other variations are possible.
Suggested answers
1. T ere are a number of reasons why screening is not eff ective for all diseases.
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2. In conclusion, therefore, care needs to be taken in deciding which diseases to screen for.
3. By identifying a disease at an early stage, primary caregivers make it much easier to treat or cure.
4. Screening involves carrying out tests for a specifi c condition at regular intervals.
5. Examples of conditions for which screening has been proved useful include cervical cancer, breast cancer and heart conditions.
6. Screening delivers considerable benefi ts in minimizing the eff ects of disease.
B
Set for individual work. Elicit how this comparison essay is organized, referring students back to essay plan 1 on page 83 of the Course Book (the essay discusses all the advantages fi rst and then all the disadvantages).
Elicit and visually feed back the answers below.
Depending on the class, you may want to take this exercise further, asking students to build on the topic sentences by suggesting what ideas could follow in each paragraph. For this, they will need to refer to ideas in the text in Lesson 8.2 but may also require additional material on the eff ectiveness of screening in general practice. Some online research would be a good place to start.
Answers Paragraph
1. Introduction
2. Defi nition of screening
3. Advantages 4. Examples 5. Disadvantages Topic sentence from notes
6. Screening delivers considerable benefi ts in minimizing the eff ects of disease.
4. Screening involves carrying out tests for a specifi c condition at regular intervals.
3. By identifying a disease at an early stage, primary caregivers make it much easier to treat or cure.
5. Examples of conditions for which screening has been proved useful include cervical cancer, breast cancer and heart conditions.
1. T ere are a number of reasons why screening is not eff ective for all diseases.
2. In conclusion, therefore, care needs to be taken in deciding which diseases to screen for.
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