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- Greg Malivuk
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- Homework: Look at the woman camping on p. 47. Write some (minimum 3) sentences about her. (Use your imagination.)
- Tell your partner your ideas for the woman in the picture. Who has the more interesting imagination?
- She is divorced. = She was married but then they broke up.
- She is single. = She was never married.
- She is widowed. = She was married but her husband died.
- She is a biologist. She is very adventurous. She is not afraid.
- She is with her husband. They are on vacation.
- She cooks on the stones. / She is cooking on the stones.
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- p. 48 - Topic sentences have the topic and the controlling idea (main idea).
- Scuba diving requires careful preparation.
- You must prepare carefully before going scuba diving.
- David Freeman is a good father. He has two children who are 7 and 9 years old. Every day after work he eats lunch in a restaurant. He loves to take his children to the zoo on weekends. David and his wife go on vacation without their children once every year. Most of the family’s vacations are to places like Disney World, which the children can enjoy.
- The controlling idea controls what information goes in the paragraph. If a sentence is not related to the controlling idea, you should not include it in your paragraph.
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- p. 49 practice 2 - Find the topic sentence for each paragraph. Circle the topic and underline the controlling idea.
- p. 50 practice 3 - which sentence is a good topic sentence for the first paragraph?
- What can be a good title for p. 50 paragraph 1? “A Good Athlete”
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- Homework: Choose the best topic sentence for paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 (page 50-51) and choose a title for each paragraph. (Page 52 has some suggestions about titles.)
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