Semi-colons: leopard seal
Whiteboard Challenges
Challenge 1
Read the first sentence and identify the two main clauses. Between which two words should a semi-colon be placed?
Challenge 2
Read the second sentence and identify the two main clauses. Between which two words should a semi-colon be placed? Could you add a fronted adverbial that is phrased as a simile to describe how the penguin left the water?
Challenge 3
Write your own scintillating sentence about the animals featured in the film clip. It must include a semi-colon to mark a boundary between two closely related main clauses. Try to use some of the descriptive words from the Word Wall.
Whiteboard Challenges
1) The leopard seal confronted the penguin on the slippery ice floe the penguin tilted its beak backwards and made loud calls.
2) The penguin fired its body out of the water miraculously, it had escaped the jaws of death.