Writing task Read the sentences, mark the sense groups and making small pauses after each sense group. Model My father is a farmer

Writing task

Read the sentences, mark the sense groups and making small pauses after each sense group.

Model My father is a farmer.

1.My father is a farmer. 2. Ask him about it. 3. Have they any friends in London? 4. Is there a farm beyond the forest? 5. Are you a first or a second-year student? 6. He is tall and strong for his age and works on the farm every holiday. 7. I live on a farm in the north of Scotland. The age difference between them is only two years. 9. She has three children, hasn’t she? 10. She plays tennis, golf, cricket and polo. 11. Yesterday I met my old friend. 12. Mary, come to the blackboard.

13. Jackie Rose is twenty-one, isn’t she? 14. Jocelyn is very interested in farming and she wants to study agriculture at the University next year. 15. I shall help you next week when my exams are over.
Task 2

Read the sentences making pauses after each sense group.

1. Agriculture is the main occupation. 2. Are you a University student? 3. She is forty-eight and my father is fifty-one. 4. It is very difficult, if not impossible, to find a job for the young people in Great Britain. 5. My elder sister Margaret is almost twenty and works for my father in his office as a secretary. 6. Robert Burns, a famous Scottish poet, comes from a very large family. 7. During the term-time I live in a university flat. 8. Children educated in Scotland compete for Burn's Federation prizes for essays and recitations. 9. She knows German, French, Italian and English. 10. By the way, did you know my sister? 11. He's got a new job, hasn't he?

Task 3. Read the sentences

1. Jocelyn is seventeen, ||

Jocelyn, | my other sister, | is seventeen. ||

Jocelyn, | my other sister, | is seventeen | and in her final year at school, ||

2. I live on a farm, ||

I live on a farm | in the north of Scotland, ||

I live on a farm | in the north of Scotland | in an area, ||

I live on a farm | in the north of Scotland || in an area |which attracts many tourists ||

I live on a farm | in the north of Scotland | in an area | which attracts many tourists |because of its beauty. ||

3. The population is fairly small, ||

That is why | the population is fairly small, ||

In winter | that is why | the population is fairly small; || and can be very bleak in winter | that is why | the population is fairly small. ||

It is a mountainous region | and can be very bleak in winter | that is why ļ the population is fairly small, ||

It is a mountainous region | with many lochs | and can be very bleak in winter | that is why | the population is fairly small, ||

4. I live in a university flat, ||

I live in a university flat | with five other girls, ||

During the term-time | I live in a university flat | with five other girls. ||

During the term-time |I live in a university flat ļ with five other girls | and quite often go home at week-ends, ||

During the term-time | I live in a university flat | with five other girls | and quite often go home at week-ends | since it's only a hundred miles away. ||