Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent passage:
- This instance highlights how young people from different backgrounds can make important contributions to climate change.
- Participation in environmental education programmes can motivate children to act responsibly towards the environment.
- They were motivated to act in ways that would help the environment, like using a reusable water bottle or refusing to use plastic straws.
- Six hundred elementary school children from varied social and linguistic groups participated in an ocean pollution education programme.
Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent passage:
- This instance highlights how young people from different backgrounds can make important contributions to climate change.
- Participation in environmental education programmes can motivate children to act responsibly towards the environment.
- They were motivated to act in ways that would help the environment, like using a reusable water bottle or refusing to use plastic straws.
- Six hundred elementary school children from varied social and linguistic groups participated in an ocean pollution education programme.
Entered answer:
Solution
The passage talks about children's environmental education and climate action contributions.
Link A (2 → 4): Sentence 2 introduces environmental education programmes generally, while sentence 4 provides a specific example of such a programme.
Link B (4 → 3): "They" in sentence 3 requires the antecedent "Six hundred elementary school children" from sentence 4 to establish who was motivated.
Link C (3 → 1): "This instance" in sentence 1 specifically references the example of motivated children taking environmental action described in sentence 3.
Introduction: Sentence 2 is the introducing sentence because it makes a general statement about environmental education programmes.
Conclusion: Sentence 1 is the concluding sentence because it summarizes the significance of the specific example with "This instance highlights."
Assembling: The flow moves from general concept to specific example to results to concluding significance.
Hence the correct order is 2431