Pre-assignment - Flipped Activity

Name: … Date: …
English III - Class # … Teacher: Jenny Villarreal H., MTEFL-CELTA

Pre-Writing: Process for a Composition Outline

Instructions:
 Work at home, complete the exercises below an upload the worksheet until 23h59 of the day prior your
class.

Exercise 1

Watch the video below, then answer the following questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=cNLN0Ws8pJs
1. A brainstorm helps me organice my ideas.
2. Usually, an organised brainstorm has 3 reasons.
3. The topic sentence (or thesis statement as said in the
video) is the centre of my brainstorm.
4. Each reason must have 2 to 3 supporting details.
5. Each reason becomes into a support sentence in the
outline.

Exercise 2
a. Watch the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSnpATHIhmk&t=53s and complete the chart below:

PRE-WRITING PROCESS

1. An outline is an organiced list of points you will you make in your writing.
2. The opinion essay about bats is the first thing to write.
3. The most important point/idea in the outline is the topic sentences
4. 2 or 3 main idea support your main idea.
5. Evidence, examples y reasons support your ideas.
6. You end your outline with a concluding statement.

b. Go over the attached Ppt: The Outline of a Composition pay special attention to the different steps in the
process of writing an outline.
 c. Complete the chart with the description of the process to write a composition outline.

STEPS DESCRIPTIONS

Step 1 Selecting the topic

Step 2 Planning & organizing

Step 3 Writing the first draft

Step 4 Revising

Step 5 Proofreading and editing

Step 6 Writing the final draft

Exercise 3
a. Read the following composition. Then, answer the questions below it by giving the sentence numbers.

QUESTIONS ANSWERS

Which sentence/s state/s the main idea of the 1

composition?
Which sentence/s give/s the first supporting idea? 5, 9, 7
Which sentence/s give/s details about the first 6, 10, 8
supporting idea?
Which sentence/s give/s additional supporting 1, 3,4,11,12
ideas?
Which sentence/s state/s the conclusion? 13

REMEMBER: Upload the worksheet to Virtual Class as a Pdf document.