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    The paragraph explains what causes lightning and thunder. It states that ancient myths were created to explain these phenomena due to their frightening nature. It then explains that lightning is caused by a buildup of electric charge within clouds due to friction generated when warm and cold air masses collide high in the atmosphere. When the charge becomes strong enough, it discharges as lightning. This flash of lightning rapidly heats the surrounding air, causing it to expand and creating the sound wave we perceive as thunder. While lightning is visible before thunder is heard, both occur nearly simultaneously.

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    The paragraph explains what causes lightning and thunder. It states that ancient myths were created to explain these phenomena due to their frightening nature. It then explains that lightning is caused by a buildup of electric charge within clouds due to friction generated when warm and cold air masses collide high in the atmosphere. When the charge becomes strong enough, it discharges as lightning. This flash of lightning rapidly heats the surrounding air, causing it to expand and creating the sound wave we perceive as thunder. While lightning is visible before thunder is heard, both occur nearly simultaneously.

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    The paragraph explains what causes lightning and thunder. It states that ancient myths were created to explain these phenomena due to their frightening nature. It then explains that lightning is caused by a buildup of electric charge within clouds due to friction generated when warm and cold air masses collide high in the atmosphere. When the charge becomes strong enough, it discharges as lightning. This flash of lightning rapidly heats the surrounding air, causing it to expand and creating the sound wave we perceive as thunder. While lightning is visible before thunder is heard, both occur nearly simultaneously.

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    The paragraph explains what causes lightning and thunder. It states that ancient myths were created to explain these phenomena due to their frightening nature. It then explains that lightning is caused by a buildup of electric charge within clouds due to friction generated when warm and cold air masses collide high in the atmosphere. When the charge becomes strong enough, it discharges as lightning. This flash of lightning rapidly heats the surrounding air, causing it to expand and creating the sound wave we perceive as thunder. While lightning is visible before thunder is heard, both occur nearly simultaneously.

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    DISCOURSE MARKERS & COHESIVE DEVICES ACTIVITY

    Read the paragraph given below carefully and understand the sequence of events.
    Long ago, people made up myths and legends to explain what causes lightning and thunder. Having an
    explanation for something can make it less frightening. Lightning and thunder can be very frightening
    especially because they often happen just before a big rainstorm. We now know what causes lightning
    and thunder. Have you ever noticed that you often hear thunder just a few seconds after you see
    lightning? This is because it is lightning that causes thunder. If the storm is far away from you, there are a
    few seconds between the lightning and the thunder. If the storm is close to you, you hear the thunder
    almost at the same time that you see the lightning. Lightning is caused by electricity building up inside a
    cloud. When a large mass of warm air and a large mass of cold air come together high above the earth, it
    causes a lot of movement in the air. The cold air moves down while the warm air moves up, which creates
    something like friction. An electric charge builds up in the clouds. The charge gets stronger and stronger
    until it explodes—and the LIGHTNING flashes. When the lightning flashes, the air around it becomes
    unbelievably hot—five times hotter than the surface of the sun!

    The heated air expands into the cooler air around it, causing the shockwave that we call thunder. Even
    though we usually see lightning before we hear the thunder that it causes, the two events happen just a
    fraction of a second apart. In addition, both light and sound travel through the air in waves. However,
    light waves travel faster than sound waves, so the light waves from the explosion get to us first. A tiny
    version of an event similar to lightning and thunder can happen when you brush your feet along a carpet
    and then touch a doorknob. You can sometimes hear the little sizzle of mini-thunder, and see the flash of
    mini-lightning.

    I. Now read these sentences. They are jumbled up. First, you have to arrange them in a sequence.
    Then expand it into a paragraph by using appropriate discourse markers.
    1. Friction created by air movement creates an electric charge inside a cloud.
    2. A large mass of warm air and a large mass of cold air come together high above the earth.
    3. We hear a crash of thunder.
    4. The cold air moving down and the warm air moving up creates something like friction.
    5. We see a flash of lightning.
    6. An electric charge inside a cloud grows stronger and stronger.

    II. Now draw a table of the six cohesive devices and identify them from the paragraph given above
    and fill in the table.

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