ESOL Ws/L1.1a Write using complex sentences
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Adult ESOL Core Curriculum (DfES 2001) > Writing (W) > Writing sentence focus (Ws) Grammar and Punctuation > Grammar > Ws/L1.1a Write using complex sentences
| Component skill and knowledge and understanding. Adults should learn to: |
Example of application and level | Sample activities |
| Write using sentences consisting of a main clause and one or more subordinate clauses. Understand that more-complex writing involves the use of sentences consisting of a main clause and one or more subordinate clauses | Write a narrative, report, description or letter, using sentences consisting of a main clause and one or more subordinate clauses. The village where I grew up was very small and did not have a doctor so if you were ill you had to walk or ride six kilometres to get to the nearest clinic. I can remember when my sister was stung by bees and my brother ran all the way, carrying her on his back. |
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| Use a range of connectives (e.g. as, if, unless, so, as a result of that, even though) to express contrast, reason, purpose, condition, consequence; using ellipses; using prepositional, adjectival and adverbial phrases to show time, manner, degree, extent, frequency and probability | ||
| Use conditional sentences | ||
| Understand and apply conventions of reported speech | ||
| Understand that complete sentences should not be strung together with commas to make longer 'sentences', but should be either left as separate sentences or correctly joined, e.g. with a conjunction | ||
| Recognise the importance of word order and punctuation in complex sentences, and use this understanding to avoid ambiguity | ||
| Select a sentence structure suitable for the text, e.g. know that informal texts are likely to use a contracted form of the verb and include colloquial expressions; more formal ones are likely to have verbs written out in full, include more nouns and noun phrases, more complex modal phrases and more use of passive. |
Write an e-mail and formal letter around the same subject: Dear Ms Scott, |
Source: Department for Education and Skills (2001) Adult ESOL Core Curriculum, DfES (2001)
Related Adult Literacy Core Curriculum links: Ws/L1.1 Write in complete sentences, Ws/L2.1 Construct complex sentences
Related Functional Skills English links: FE L1.25 Write consistently & accurately in complex sentences, using paragraphs where appropriate
