💡 What Changed Everything
Students read an original long-form article by fictional journalist Marta Kowalski about 'butterfly moments' — small, accidental events that changed lives. Four stories: Adrien the accountant who became a ceramicist after a delayed train, Priya the engineer whose rejection letter taught her storytelling, Tomasz the teacher who became a bestselling novelist after a stranger's comment, and Fatima the paediatrician who redesigns hospital wards after a child's question. Cleft sentences (it was...that, what...was, the reason...was, the thing...is, all...was) are embedded naturally throughout all four narratives. The game challenges students to transform normal sentences into cleft forms.
Lesson Plan
- 3 warm-up questions about turning points
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- It-cleft: It was/is + focus + that (things/time) or who (people)
- Wh-cleft: What + clause + is/was + focus (emphasise action/thing)
- Reason-cleft: The reason + clause + is/was (that) + cause
- Thing/All-cleft: The thing/All + clause + is/was + focus
- Cleft = 'split' a sentence to emphasise one element
- Use for storytelling, correcting, emphasising, formal writing
हमारी कक्षाओं में शामिल हों!
हम मानते हैं कि सही प्रश्न सही उत्तर लाते हैं। चाहे आपके पास अपनी अंग्रेजी सीखने की यात्रा के बारे में कोई प्रश्न हो, हम हमेशा यहां हैं।