Opinion chains: The Sign of Four
Ideal as a consolidation task after reading Chapter 1 of The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle.
GCSE English Literature students work in pairs or groups to complete this activity, which helps to develop their oracy skills by constructing a verbal essay as a class. The PowerPoint resource provides a framework for the activity with some starter sentences to kick-start their analysis of the use of exposition in the first chapter of the novella.
This is a challenging task and is best suited to higher attaining students.
An extract from the PowerPoint slide:
Each pair or group expresses a one sentence opinion with justification [evidence/ reasons] in response to the opinion expressed before.
Your comment should link to the previous comment and stay on topic.
You may use connectives like ‘however…’ to change direction or ‘another point…’ to move on to a new topic.
