C1 Advanced • Food Science & Information Flow

🫙 Corner Jar Sentence Surgery

Master information structure and end-weight: connect known ideas first, push new weight to the end.

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1. 1 Divide the class into teams of 2–3 and hand out the Cards and Rewrite Sheets.
2. 2 Tell students: "Line 1 stays intact; lines 2 to 6 must each start with known facts."
3. 3 Assign one student per team as the official scorekeeper to track bonus vocabulary.
4. 4 Run the timer strictly across the 6 steps; call out time transitions clearly.
5. 5 Use the Teacher Key at the end of the module to verify lines and award final points.

1. 1 Look at lines 2 to 6: spot what the previous sentence has already introduced.
2. 2 Put that familiar item at the front as your subject; move heavy, new facts to the end.
3. 3 Keep every factual detail from the original recipe. Do not drop steps or items.
4. 4 Earn 1 bonus point for each Unit vocabulary word incorporated accurately into your lines.
5. 5 Read your final recipe aloud to the class; the smoothest, clearest text wins!

Step 1

Hand out cards & assign team scorekeeper.

Step 2

Read recipe aloud; spot awkward jumps.

Step 3

Teams rewrite lines 2 to 6 on the sheet.

Step 4

Read surgery recipes aloud for flow test.

Step 5

Compare with Teacher Key & count points.

Step 6

Final debrief: celebrate highest scores!

Perform Sentence Surgery

Eligible Unit Words for Bonus Points (1 bonus per different word):

Passive

"The sticks are then packed into..."

Maintains carrot sticks as topic subject without repeating the cook.

Add more at the end

"These sticks are covered with brine, which is..."

Connects the familiar vegetable to the newly defined salty solution.

Focus with It is ... that

"It is with a loose lid that the jar is fitted..."

Directs emphasis to the container closure while allowing gas escape.

Location Link

"Once placed in a warm room, the jar..."

Carries the vessel forward while introducing the warm place.

What comes next

"What develops inside the jar is a sour smell..."

Signals active microbial growth and rising acidity.

Precaution Link

"To prevent spoilage once the sourness peaks, the jar..."

Shifts the preservation goal to front position before naming the cold fridge.

The sticks are packed tightly into a clean glass jar.

The sticks are covered with brine, which is a little salt stirred into cold water.

The jar is closed with a loose lid so that the gas can escape.

The jar is left in a warm room, and after a few days tiny bubbles and a sour smell appear.

The jar then goes into a cold fridge, which slows the process once the carrots taste sour enough.

📢 Marking Policy: Accept any line that starts with a known item and keeps all the information. Stylistic variations (e.g. using cleft sentences, fronted prepositional phrases, or synonyms like vessel or mixture) are fully valid!

Level 1: Easy

Link Hunting

Give teams highlighters to underline the known link word in each original sentence before attempting any rewrite.

Level 2: Medium

Passive Lockdown

Every rewritten line must be passive, so the thing we are talking about stays at the front.

Level 3: Hard

Cleft Surgery

Use at least two sentences that start "It is ... that ..." (for example, "It is into a clean jar that ...") across the recipe.

Fast Finishers

Vinegar Pickling

Hand fast teams a 3-line vinegar-pickle process with clunky beginnings and challenge them to perform instant oral surgery.