https://owl.english.purdue.

edu/owl/resource/574/02/

http://www4.fe.uc.pt/english/dms.htm

http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/qwrtcntr/resources/handouts/transitions.htm

http://grammar.about.com/od/d/g/discoursemarkerterm.htm

http://www.msvu.ca/en/home/studentservices/academicadvisingsupport/writingcentr
e/handouts/paragraphtransitions.aspx

CLINES:

http://eflrecipes.com/2014/03/18/clines/

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/cline

http://esolonline.tki.org.nz/ESOL-Online/Teacher-needs/Pedagogy/ESOL-teaching-
strategies/Oral-language/Teaching-approaches-and-strategies/Vocabulary/Clines

https://gdrive.wikispaces.com/Word+Cline

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A Word Cline is a way of building vocabulary by looking at words that all fit into a particular category, and
arranging them in order of strength, or how strongly they represent the idea. I've collated some examples
here to help me have working material, although of course the best session is one where the students
contribute the words. And athesaurus is a great place to go looking for more words. (Not sure about
Windows, but the one built into OS X on the Mac is pretty darn good - just type a word into the Spotlight
search bar and then click on the definition, then select the thesaurus option)

A word cline is also an activity described in the First Steps Reading Map of Development.

Temperature:
freezing, frosty, cold, chilly, nippy, warm, hot, sizzling, steaming, burning, boiling.

Size:
infinitesimal, tiny, small, short, tall, big, huge, enormous, gigantic, humungous, titanic, immense

Scary:
terrifying, frightening, horrifying, scary, creepy, spooky, friendly, nice, buddy

Speed:
slow, snail-like, sluggish, quick, speedy, swift, rapid, blistering, supersonic

Speaking:
mumble, whisper, speak, talk, say, announce, yell, shout, scream, shriek

blue - low - depressed - miserable - sorrowful.

glad - cheerful - delighted - elated - ecstatic.

1. Unlikely, Perhaps, Often, Always

2. Small, big, huge, gigantic
3. dim, dark, pitch
4. glance, stare, glare, gawk
5. cool, chilly, cold, freezing

Examples of Cline Words

- mumbled, whispered, said, called, shouted, yelled, screamed, shrieked

- hermit, recluse, loner, solitary, friendly, sociable, outgoing, gregarious,
- flat, shallow, deep, fathomless
-freezing, frosty, cold, chilly, nippy, warm, hot, sizzling, steaming, burning, boiling
- infinitesimal, tiny, small, short, tall, big, huge, enormous, gigantic, humungous, titanic,
immense
- terrifying, frightening, horrifying, scary, creepy, spooky, friendly, nice, buddy
- slow, snail-like, sluggish, quick, speedy, swift, rapid, blistering, supersonic
- never, rarely, hardly ever, sometimes, often, always
- timid, diffident, pusillanimous, craven
- equanimous, imperturbable, irascible, truculent, malevolent
- unstinting, spendthrift, extravagant, prodigal, profligate
- full, peckish, hungry, starving
- millimetre, centimetre, metre, kilometre
- gram, kilogram, tonne
- millisecond, second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year, decade, century
- hate, don't really like, don't mind, quite like, really like, love adore

Clines
Clines are gradients that are used for teaching and learning shades of meaning. Words are spaced
along the gradient. For example, in English we use a range of words to describe temperature, for
example tepid, hot, boiling, cool, cold, warm, chilling, and freezing. After modelling the task, these
words can be given to groups of students to place on the cline from the highest to the lowest
temperature. The discussion that comes with this task is as important as the task itself.

Examples

LOVE:

http://totescute.com/four-types-of-love-greek-style/

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/festivals-series/festival-of-love/the-
seven-kinds-of-love

http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/the-ancient-greeks-6-words-for-love-and-
why-knowing-them-can-change-your-life

https://fromerostoagape.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/eros-romantic-love-and-agape-
unconditional-love/

http://totescute.com/the-three-types-of-love-in-the-bible/