Writing paragraphs

Writing paragraphs

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Multiple Choice

What is the name of the very end of a piece of writing, that usually summarizes the main points of a topic?

• Main idea

• Supporting ideas

• Examples

• Conclusion

Multiple Choice

What is the name of the more focused arguments that support the main idea?

• Main idea

• Supporting ideas

• Examples

• Conclusion

Multiple Choice

What is the name of the back-up, evidence or illustration of the suporting ideas?

• Main idea

• Supporting ideas

• Examples

• Conclusion

Multiple Choice

What is the name of the most important or central thought of a paragraph, which tells the reader what the text is about?

• Main idea

• Supporting ideas

• Examples

• Conclusion

Racism vs. Xenophobia

It’s never a good sign when we start seeing a massive increase of hatred because of different reasons like race or countries of birth. Racism and xenophobia are the most current social issues in all the world, and it is important to define each one.

Racism vs. Xenophobia

First, racism is a type of discrimination based on the belief that some races are innately superior to others. For example, black people slavery in XVII century is a clear ilustration of how a race dominates another one by claiming intellectual and moral superiority.

Racism vs. Xenophobia

Second, xenophobie is fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign. To ilustrate, the Holocaust of World War II is a horrific example of xenophobia as it was an effort to exterminate the Jewish people due to their religious beliefs and practices.

Racism vs. Xenophobia

To sumarize, both racism and xenophobie are types of discrimination that take place in our society due to different reasons.

Write your own paragraph

Choose one of the following topics and start writing your own paragraph.

* How racism/xenophobia should be explained to a child?

* What should be done when seeing situations of racism/xenophobia?

Possessive pronouns

How and when to use them?

Possessive pronouns

• They show that something belongs to someone. 

• Possessive pronouns are never spelled with apostrophes. (' as in they' re)