Aloha guys!

Does the holiday mood drag you down?

 Today’s agenda:

• Revise “Thesis statement”

• Understand what “topic sentences” are
• Speaking assessment (!!)
Part One.
Revision...
 Thesis statement...

• Soul of the essay.

• Your stance/opinion/position.
• Guidance - observation + analysis.
• Link throughout the essay.
 Types of TS:

• Analytical - breaking a topic down

• Expository - explaining a process
• Argumentative - asserting,
reasoning, contradicting
Golden formula of TS

TOPIC + CONTROLLING IDEA (+

PREDICTORS)
A Good TS:

Unified
Specific
Obvious
 Part Two.
Back to Basic, guys.
How to write an effective paragraph?
 A paragraph
·Concerned only with one main idea
·Contains a Topic Sentence

·Elaborate "ts" with examples, explanations,

statistics to support
·Use a concluding sentence to sum

up and link up the next paragraph.

 Topic Sentence (ts)

l
Controls the idea of the paragraph (compared to
TS to the essay)
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It SHOULD NOT be the same as the title or TS
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Rather, each ts should be the idea branched out
from TS
 Topic Sentence

TOPIC + CONTROLLING IDEA

(The "formula" looks familiar, doesn't it?)

 Task Nine

Remember:
ts should be like TS
In the way that it is:

l
Specific
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Related to but not restating TS
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In COMPLETE sentence
 How to train a cat
Sentence ONE: true but BORING
Sentence TWO: identify the TOPIC + CONTROLLING
IDEA
Sentence THREE: is it restating the title in different
words?
Sentence FOUR: TOPIC + CONTROLLING IDEA
present?
Sentence FIVE: I know, but how complicated?
 Task Ten

Not complicated but it requires your patience...

 Example in the note

...include (1)determining their budget, (2) finding

appropriate models and (3) comparing prices.

Then...
(1) Firstly, you need to decide how much...

(2) Secondly, you may examine the models...

(3) Thirdly, you are suggested to shop around...

Note the connectives which separate ideas

They are useful, and also a complete bore.

What will you do?

 Part 3.
Let the fun go on...
You do your tasks

Others do the presentation!

 Arrangement
#1 of the class is called.

Draw a sheet randomly.

Prepare for two minutes

(No notes in the sheet – use your scrap paper)

# 1 presents, #2 draws and prepare for 2 min.

Repeat this step.

 Something extra...

As it's a crime to let you wait and waste your time.

 Write a paragraph.

Once you finish the presentation and Task 9 & 10

Get yourself a sheet of paper

In 100 – 150 words,

Convince me Facebook is a good social network.

Remember the paragraph format?

TOPIC SENTENCE. [Point 1]. [1 supporting idea]. [Point 2]. [1

supporting idea].... CONCLUDING SENTENCE

GIVE A TITLE
AS WELL AS YOUR NAME AND CLASS NUMBER