131 P24 Focus 3&4 Writing

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Prompt: Humans can save the environment in many ways. What is your opinion?

1. What is my goal?

2. What kind of details or arguments do I need to answer the prompt?

3. Who is the audience for the essay?

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How can people save the environment?

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Write a thesis statement for this question.
Humans can save the environment in many ways. What is your opinion?

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Think of two main ideas you can write about in your body paragraph (connected to your thesis). (Prompt: Humans can save the environment in many ways. What is your opinion?)

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What kinds of mistakes do you think we should look for when we are proofreading our essays?

Labelling

Label the sentence that says the main topic of the essay.

Label the sentence that gives the writer’s opinion.

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Main topic

Thesis statement

Reorder

The sentences in the introductory paragraphs below are in mixed order. Put them in the correct order from the most general to the specific. Finish with thesis statement.

• Nowadays, many men and women are extremely ambitious about their jobs.

• These “workaholic” people are serious about becoming successful so they work long hours during the week and even on weekends.

• Because they work so many hours, workaholics may not spend enough time doing leisure activities.

• Therefore, workaholics’ lifestyles can affect their families, social lives, and health.

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Multiple Choice

Activity 3: Look at the body paragraph of an essay about the negative effects of fashion. Read it carefully and choose the best introduction with your partner. Justify your answer.

• There are many negative effects of the fashion industry. People love to follow the latest fashion trends, but they should remember that it brings harm to the environment. Also, workers in the fashion industry have very bad working conditions.

• The fashion industry is worth billions of dollars and creates millions of jobs around the world. It also provides people with the option of choosing from many different kinds of clothes. However, I strongly believe that it is harmful to the environment, and workers in the fashion industry have very bad working conditions.

• Fashion has become a great industry in recent years. Although it offers many job opportunities to people, it leads to many unwanted situations. For example, it harms the environment. Because trends change very quickly, people want to buy more and manufacturers produce new clothes. Therefore, the fashion industry is no good for the environment and society.

Open Ended

Thesis Statement 1: Parents should not allow their children to use smartphones because it causes children to have less social interaction and become physically inactive.

What is the topic?

What are the controlling ideas?

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Thesis Statement 2: Although studying abroad might be expensive, a student will gain many benefits like interacting with another culture and learning a new language.

What is the topic?

What are the controlling ideas?

Draw

Put a check mark (✓) next to the thesis statements that you think are good and an X next to the thesis statements you think could use improvement.

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Living on campus has many advantages for students such as…

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Children should avoid eating fast food because…

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Living in a city has certain advantages over living in the suburbs like…

Labelling

Label the parts of the body paragraph.

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Main point 2

Main point 1

Topic sentence

Concluding sentence

Main point 3

Multiple Choice

Read an essay about the negative effects of fashion and choose the best conclusion paragraph with your partner. Justify your answer.

• –To summarize, the fashion industry creates lots of job opportunities for people and helps teenagers to find different kinds of clothes. Despite these benefits, it harms the environment. Moreover, it also causes teenagers to become more materialistic. Therefore, they should not follow fashion.

• –In conclusion, the fashion industry has led to many unfavorable situations. However, we cannot avoid it because it is an important part of our lives because of social media.

• To conclude, the fashion industry leads to many unwanted situations since it destroys the environment and offers quite poor working conditions to workers. I hope that people who work at top positions in this industry will become aware of these unfavorable situations and take some steps to make a change.