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Group Note Making and Joint Rewriting

Watch the video below for instructions on how to fill in the table!

GROUP WORK. Read the text again sentence by sentence. Pay attention to the structure of
the text in the first column. Then identify the keywords and write them in the third column.
Based on the keywords rewrite the sentence. Follow the example given in number 1.

Structure Sentence Keywords Joint Writing
Orientation • Let's take a look at what led up to the Take a look - led up Let’s see what made the
attack on Pearl Harbour. - attack. aggression on Pearl
Harbour.
• Japan had been at war with China since Led - declared. China and Japan had been
the mid-1930s. Germany, led by Adolph at war since the middle of
Hitler declared war on Europe in the late the 1930s. In the late
1930s. 1930s, Adolph Hitler's
Germany waged war on
Europe.
• Germany and Japan had signed a pact Signed - pact - Germany and Japan had
that they would not fight each other. fight. agreed to keep their war
neutral by signing a treaty.

• Instead, they would help each other when Instead - help.
they could.
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• The United States had decided to stay out Decided - stay out -
of the conflicts in Europe and Asia. conflicts.

• The president and Congress had decided Decided - enough
that there had been enough loss of life loss - material
and material goods during World War 1. goods.

st
1 event • President Roosevelt had moved the Moved - fleet.
United States Naval fleet to Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii, in 1938.

• He felt that the presence of this fleet in Felt - presence -
the Pacific would deter Japan from any deter - invading -
thoughts of invading the lands they dire.
wanted because Japan was in dire need
of oil and other goods.