Summaries without a list – exercise to share in the Facebook Group
Creating gapped sentences – summaries without a list
Look at the short text below and try to make one or two gapped sentences out of it to share. Take the idea and rewrite the sentences so that people have to either change the form or the word or use a synonym.
Post your sentence/s in the Facebook Group along with the original sentence and see who can complete your sentence.
Here is the link (you must join to group to post your sentences).
https://www.facebook.com/groups/545087748890735/
I’ve done an example at the bottom.
Second home owning
George Monbiot’s article is typical of the fashionable rants against second-home owners. In the community in which I have my second home (yes, I am biased) there were traditionally five working farms and three cottages. There are still eight permanent residents, but no working farms. There are, however, now 17 dwellings. The rest of us live in the converted barns and cow-sheds that used to be part of the working farms: we have not taken houses away from the local population, but made use of the redundant farm buildings.
In adding to the housing stock we, as part of the tourist industry, have helped create local employment that drives the local demand for housing. *Punitive taxation on second homes will not eliminate the demand, but simply drive it elsewhere – to France and Spain, for example. Those economies will then benefit from the leisure industries that affluence creates, while in rural Britain it may be a race for which falls the faster: the price of houses or the number of jobs.
There is a problem of affordability of housing in the UK. But it is not confined to those areas where second homes are common, nor is it a problem amenable to a simple, knee-jerk solution.
Example:
*Harsh ………… laws for people with……………. will cause demand ………………. elsewhere.
Answer:
Harsh tax laws for people with second homes will cause demand to be driven elsewhere.
Now try some yourself and post them for other students to answer!