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20. Look at the key events on your mind map and do the following activities:
Simple and complex sentences For our report Simple sentences
a) In your own words, write sentences for every key event in your notebook.
Decide if you need one or more actions in each sentence.
b) Look back at the timeline you made in Activity 16 to help you out.
c) Use your notes from Activity 7 to check different ways of stating past
actions. Look at the example.

Remember

are those that are
Example:
comprised of one
• Cortés landed on the Mexican coast in 1519.
verb, and complex
• Cortés began to march towards Tenochtitlán.
are those that are
comprised of two
or more.
session 7 that broadens, exemplifies or clarifies the key or main events.
21. Use the sentences you wrote in Activity 20 to include information

Look at the example.

For our report

Example:
Cortés began to march inland towards the city of Tenochtitlán. Remember

One way to clarify
information is
• Use the timeline you made in Activity 16 to put the sentences in that elaborates on
to add more
chronological order.
information after a
Broadening and clarifying information Example: so you can understand how this is done. Look at the example. what has been said.
name or an action
22. With your teacher’s help, check for ways to clarify and
emphasize the sentences you wrote in the previous activity.
• Take a look at the information in bold, as well the Remember box,

• Cortés began to march towards
“Cortés began to march inland
towards the city of Tenochtitlán, the
Tenochtitlán. Clarifying Information
• Cortés conquered some cities. capital of the Empire, conquering
• Cortes made alliances to some cities along the way and
defeat the Aztecs.
making alliances to defeat the Aztecs”
session 8 • When Cortés arrived in “When Cortés entered Tenochtitlán,
Emphasizing information and making it more nuanced

the rulers of the city gave him a big
Tenochtitlán he was
received as a god.
welcome, with great banquets and
• Cortés was received with
great banquets and gifts. gifts, but they were not sure if he was
a god or not.”

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