Decision reformulations
Track actor, commitment, time, scope and focus as the same decision moves across structures.
TF30 · C2 GRAMMAR · 30 MIN
Reformulate One Meaning through Different Structures
Change grammar, focus and information packaging while protecting the six parts of meaning that must not move.
Why this lesson matters · เหตุผลที่เรียนบทนี้
For learners: Reformulate one message for different focus and information-flow effects while protecting six meaning invariants.
For teachers: The route extends register adaptation into structural choice, then moves to information structure and controlled density; discourse connectors provide a useful comparison for explicit logical relations.
สำหรับผู้เรียน: ปรับข้อความเดียวกันด้วยโครงสร้างต่าง ๆ เพื่อเปลี่ยนจุดเน้นและการไหลของข้อมูล โดยรักษาองค์ประกอบความหมาย 6 จุดไว้
สำหรับครู: เส้นทางต่อยอดจากการปรับระดับภาษาไปสู่การเลือกโครงสร้าง แล้วจึงพัฒนาเรื่องการจัดข้อมูลและความหนาแน่นของภาษา โดยใช้ discourse connectors เป็นจุดเปรียบเทียบด้านความสัมพันธ์เชิงตรรกะ
Your Goal
Identify six meaning invariants, compare the effects of six structural options, detect four subtle meaning shifts, and produce four controlled versions of one message.
คำอธิบายภาษาไทย
ระบุองค์ประกอบของความหมาย 6 จุดที่ต้องคงเดิม เปรียบเทียบผลของโครงสร้าง 6 แบบ ตรวจจับความหมายที่คลาดเคลื่อนอย่างละเอียด 4 จุด และสร้างข้อความเดียวกัน 4 เวอร์ชันโดยควบคุมความหมายได้
Why this lesson matters
Advanced control is not the ability to make a sentence longer. It is the ability to select a structure for focus, flow, agency and tone while keeping the underlying message stable. At C2, a small change in article, modality, scope, actor or time anchor can silently alter what the speaker commits to.
ภาษาไทย: ความสามารถระดับสูงไม่ได้หมายถึงเขียนประโยคให้ยาวขึ้น แต่หมายถึงเลือกโครงสร้างเพื่อควบคุมจุดเน้น การไหลของข้อมูล ผู้กระทำ และน้ำเสียง โดยยังรักษาข้อความหลักเดิม ความเปลี่ยนแปลงเล็ก ๆ ใน article, modal, ขอบเขต ผู้กระทำ หรือเวลา อาจทำให้ความหมายและระดับความรับผิดชอบเปลี่ยนโดยไม่ตั้งใจ
PROGRESS FOCUS What improves today?
MEAN · MeaningProtect proposition, actor, commitment, time, scope and intended action across structural changes.
FORM · FormControl active, passive, nominal, cleft, fronted and non-finite structures accurately.
USE · Real useSelect a structure for a communicative effect, explain the effect and repair one subtle drift independently.
Your 30-minute route
1 · 4 minMap invariants
2 · 4 minCompare structures
3 · 5 minControl focus
4 · 5 minDetect drift
5 · 5 minListen and audit
6 · 7 minReformulate and retry
Teacher Lesson Plan
Meaning before transformation. Require the learner to write the six invariants before changing a structure. Then ask what the new form foregrounds, backgrounds or leaves implicit—and whether any invariant moved.
| Stage | Teacher move | Evidence to collect |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · Map | Separate six stable meaning components. | 6 invariant maps |
| 2 · Compare | Contrast six structural options and their effects. | 6 effect statements |
| 3 · Focus | Match structures to focus and information-flow goals. | 8 justified selections |
| 4 · Repair | Detect and repair four subtle meaning shifts. | 4 minimal repairs |
| 5 · Transfer | Audit two accent-varied reformulation sets. | 2 invariant–effect maps |
| 6 · Perform | Score MEAN/FORM/USE and target one retry. | 4 controlled versions + retry |
Stage 1 · Map six meaning invariants
Decide what must not change before you change the grammar.
STUDENT TASK
COREProposition and responsible actor
BOUNDARYCommitment, time and scope
OUTCOMEIntended action or conclusion
| Invariant | Question | Example answer |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · proposition | What is asserted? | The review found two unresolved risks. |
| 2 · actor | Who found, decided or must act? | The independent review team. |
| 3 · commitment | Certain, probable, recommended or required? | A firm finding and required action. |
| 4 · time | When is the claim or action valid? | Finding now; action before launch. |
| 5 · scope | All, some, exactly how many? | Two risks, not the whole project. |
| 6 · intended action | What must happen next? | Resolve both risks before launch. |
- Map all six invariants for three base messages.
- Underline the word or phrase that proves each answer.
- Identify one detail that may be implied in conversation but must be explicit in a formal record.
- State which invariant is easiest to lose during reformulation.
Finish evidenceSix invariant labels for three messages.
Teacher Help · Stage 1
Do not accept a paraphrase as proof of stable meaning. Ask for the actor, strength, time and scope separately. At C2, “almost the same” is not enough when accountability or policy is involved.
Stage 2 · Compare six structural options
Each structure changes what the listener notices first.
STUDENT TASK
| Structure | Model | Main effect |
|---|---|---|
| active clause | The review team identified two risks. | foregrounds the actor |
| passive clause | Two risks were identified by the review team. | foregrounds the affected item or result |
| nominalisation | The identification of two risks requires action. | packages a process as an entity |
| cleft | What the review identified was two unresolved risks. | creates contrastive focus |
| fronting | Before launch, both risks must be resolved. | guides the time frame first |
| non-finite frame | Having identified two risks, the team paused the launch. | compresses sequence and background |
- Compare all six versions.
- Name what each structure foregrounds and backgrounds.
- Check whether the actor remains recoverable.
- Identify where the sequence or causal relationship becomes stronger than the base message.
- Choose two appropriate versions for two different communication goals.
Check the structural effect
Passive voice changes information focus; it should not erase an actor who matters. Nominalisation can support dense formal writing but may hide time and agency. A non-finite clause can imply a temporal or causal link that the base message did not explicitly state.
Finish evidenceSix structure–effect comparisons.
Teacher Help · Stage 2
Ask “What does the reader meet first?” and “What becomes less visible?” Avoid teaching a single effect as automatic: context and surrounding discourse still determine interpretation.
Stage 3 · Select structure for focus and flow
Use discourse context to choose among grammatically possible versions.
STUDENT TASK
| Communication goal | Useful option | Control question |
|---|---|---|
| continue from a known result | passive or result-first clause | Is the actor still recoverable if needed? |
| correct a wrong assumption | cleft or contrastive fronting | Does the contrast preserve scope? |
| compress a repeated process | nominalisation | Have time and responsibility disappeared? |
| guide a timeline | fronted time frame | Does the sequence remain accurate? |
| background an earlier action | non-finite frame | Is the subject shared and the relationship justified? |
- Read eight short discourse contexts.
- Select the best structural option for each context.
- Explain the information-flow effect.
- Audit all six invariants.
- Reject one grammatically accurate version that is misleading in context.
Finish evidenceEight structure selections with focus and invariant justifications.
Teacher Help · Stage 3
Require a discourse reason, not “it sounds more advanced”. If two structures work, ask the learner to compare reader effort, actor visibility and focus rather than hunting for one answer.
Stage 4 · Detect four subtle meaning shifts
Repair the smallest part that changes commitment, scope, time or causality.
STUDENT TASK
| Reformulation | Hidden shift | Repair target |
|---|---|---|
| The review may have identified two risks. | firm finding becomes uncertain | restore commitment |
| The project’s risks were identified. | two risks becomes all project risks | restore scope |
| Having identified two risks, the team stopped the launch. | causal/temporal relation is added | state only the supported sequence |
| Two risks were identified and will be resolved. | required action becomes a prediction | restore obligation and deadline |
- Name the invariant that shifted in each line.
- Point to the exact word or structure causing the shift.
- Repair only that element.
- State the communicative effect retained by the repaired structure.
- Create one new near-equivalent that fails because its actor is no longer recoverable.
Finish evidenceFour minimal repairs plus one self-created drift test.
Teacher Help · Stage 4
Do not accept a return to the original wording every time. The learner should preserve the intended structural effect while repairing only the shifted invariant.
Stage 5 · Listen across two accents
Recover stable meaning and changing focus from two reformulation sets.
STUDENT TASKBritish English American English
Evidence reformulations
Track what remains invariant and where one version introduces a subtle unsupported shift.
- Listen once and write the base proposition and intended action.
- Listen again and record each structure.
- State the focus effect of every version.
- Audit the six invariants.
- Identify and repair the one version that drifts.
- Retell the set in one neutral active clause.
Finish evidenceTwo invariant–structure–effect maps.
Teacher Help · Stage 5
The two accents test meaning transfer, not imitation. Replay only the version where the learner loses an invariant or misidentifies the structural effect.
Stage 6 · Final Practice: produce four controlled versions
Change structure with a purpose and keep control of every meaning boundary.
STUDENT TASK
FINAL PRACTICE
Invariants → four effects → challenge → audit → retry
- Choose one complex message containing a finding, actor, commitment, time, scope and required action.
- Write the six invariants as notes only.
- Produce four versions: actor-first, result-first, contrastive-focus and compressed formal.
- State the intended effect before each version.
- Your partner challenges one boundary: “Has the scope, certainty, sequence or responsibility changed?”
- Audit all six invariants and identify the weakest version.
- After one feedback target, retry only that version while preserving its intended effect.
Performance rule: Structural variety counts only when the focus changes deliberately and the meaning boundaries stay under control.
Score the first independent performance
MEAN · MeaningProposition, actor, commitment, time, scope and intended action remain stable across all four versions.
FORM · FormActive, passive, nominal, cleft, fronted or non-finite structures are accurate and internally controlled.
USE · Real useEach structure serves a stated focus or flow goal; the learner explains the effect, answers the challenge and repairs one drift.
0 · Not yetOne or more versions change an invariant, contain an uncontrolled structure or lack a communicative purpose.
1 · With supportThe four versions become meaning-stable and purposeful after one focused prompt.
2 · IndependentThe learner controls four structural effects, protects all six invariants and repairs the weak version without a prompt.
Result: 0–2 Rebuild · 3–4 Developing · 5–6 C2 mastery evidence.
Finish evidenceFour controlled versions + six-invariant audit + one focused retry.
Teacher Help · Stage 6
Score the first independent attempt across MEAN, FORM and USE. Give one target only: invariant stability, structural accuracy, focus effect or discourse fit. Keep the original score and record the retry separately.
Grammar you can use
You can now reformulate one message through different structures while protecting its meaning boundaries. Use the Dynamic Learning Graph below to revisit register adaptation, compare discourse linking, continue to information structure and focus or explore dense noun-phrase control.
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Preserve meaning while adapting register
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Precise Discourse Connectors
Compare structural focus with explicit logical links
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Control information structure and focus
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Edit Dense Noun Phrases for Clarity
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