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Write a Classification Essay

Topic: Cold Treatments around the World
Group 1: drinks Group 2: Group 3:
Examples: Examples: Examples:
tea with sage/bay leaves

2 BEFORE YOU WRITE.

A Work with a partner. Make a list of topics that include groups or categories.

B Choose one of the topics on your list from exercise A and complete the chart below with your
ideas. Use the chart from exercise 1C as a model.

Topic:
Group 1: Group 2: Group 3:

Examples: Examples: Examples:

3 WRITE a classification essay about your topic. Write one paragraph that introduces your
topic and one paragraph for each of the groups within this topic. Use the information in your
chart in exercise 2B and the essay in exercise 1A to help you.

WRITING FOCUS Using Transition Words

Writers use transition words to lead their readers from one idea to the next. In a classification
essay, the transition words the first, the second, and the last are often used.
The first group of cures I learned about is made up of drinks.
The second group of treatments I learned about consists of different kinds of food.
The last group of treatments involves activities.

4 SELF ASSESS. Read your classification essay. Underline the relative clauses. Then use the
checklist to assess your work.

I used subject relative clauses correctly. [11.1-11.2]
I used object relative clauses correctly. [11.3-11.4]
I used object relative clauses with prepositions correctly. [11.5]
I used relative clauses with whose correctly. [11.6]

I used transition words to lead my readers from one idea to the next. [WRITING FOCUS]
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