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For our anecdote

14. Write the main ideas of the anecdote you are going to tell.
Connectives. Sentences Example: THE PERFECT 10 DURING THE ’76 OLYMPICS.
• Check the general meaning you wrote in Activity 13. Look at the example.

1. I was telling myself, “This is the Olympics. I cannot make a mistake. This is one shot.”
2. Seeing so many people overwhelmed me. I think I was prepared for that.
3. I just went to do whatever I planned to do, and whatever I trained to do.
4. Nobody told me that a perfect 10 had never been scored before in Olympic history.

5. Everything in my life today is because of that moment in Montreal.

session 5 15. Underline the connectives in the extract of Wangari Maathai's anecdote below.
Look at the example.
seed (n.): semilla
Example:

Extract of Wangari Maathai’s anecdote

Original version
They had put too much of their land into cash crops, and the children were suffering from

diseases associated with malnutrition. “Let’s plant trees!” And the women said, “Well, we would
plant trees, but we don’t know how.” And that started the whole story of, “Yeah, ok, let’s learn
how to plant trees.”

And we called the foresters, they came in and they talked to the women. They did not really
see why I was trying to teach women how to plant trees, because to plant a tree you need a
diploma. I said, “Well, I don’t think you need a diploma to plant a tree.”

Initially, we tried to give them seeds and then we decided against it. And so, they just
started very, very, very small, very, very small. And before too long, they started showing each
other how to plant trees. And before we knew it, they just started working with me.

• Substitute some connectives with their synonyms. Look at the example of the
first paragraph.

Example:
✓ thus ✓ But ✓ So

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