Connective ‘although’ links
contrasting ideas:

Although the baby was tired, he would
not go to sleep.

Although the baby is so much work, it
is lovable.

Although she had an extra pen, she
would not lend it to Miss Yeung.
Let’s play a game!

Work in groups of 4 or 5.

Each member in each group write down
on a strip of paper your own sentence
using ‘although …’

Check sentences as a group for any
errors. Then cut the sentences after
the comma into 2 parts.

Shuffle the sentence strips and
exchange your pile with another group.

Each group will receive another group’s
pile of sentence strips.

Match the sentence strips to make pairs
of suitable sentences.