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and which can be used to combine sentences. They find which sentences are the ones combined each time. Then they practice sentence combining themselves. Task 5 3 min Students are introduced to new language which refers to certain processes in a recipe. Then they have to use these phrases in order to complete another recipe. The completed text is another model text. Task 6 3 min Students are motivated to write for a real purpose and a real audience. They have to listen to a recipe recorded from the radio in order to note down the ingredients and the equipment needed. Then they have to match these words to the pictures which follow. phenomenon and realize how it works within a real text. Then, they practice sentence combining themselves. In this way they are initiated to conjunctive cohesion which is a common way of sentence combining. The notion of coherence is initiated as a thread of meaning which runs through the text and makes a text easier to read. This is a task that introduces new vocabulary within the context of the new language for giving instructions. Students have the chance to learn new words which they will later need to use and they master the language of giving instructions. The completed text provides them with another model text. Students’ writing is contextualized and this makes it motivating and meaningful. The listening activity provides skills integration and simulates the classroom to real life situations. The information students collect will be used for the next task which is an example of task dependence. The students practice relevant vocabulary which they have to combine. A number of pictures showing processes. A gapped text to complete. Pictures showing items. food 59