Prediction Essay EmSAT Practice

Which question is a Prediction Essay question?

• What skills do you need to be a good teacher?

• What do you think will change in your country in the next 30 years?

• What are some of the reasons that people like shopping in malls?

• What are the advantages of living in a village rather than a city?

Which paragraph do you start with?

• Your most important prediction

• Your second most important prediction

• Your conclusion

• Your introduction

What do you put in the middle paragraphs of your essay?

• The topic

• Your predictions

• What you will be writing about

• A summary

What do you put first in your introduction of a Prediction Essay?

• The topic you are writing about

• Your opinion

• Saying what you will do in your paragraph

• Give an example

What grammar do you use when you write about your predictions?

• going to/not going to + base form

• will/won't + base form

• The Present Simple

• The Past Simple

What grammar do you use for weaker predictions?

• may/might + base form

• should + base form

• can + base form

• would + base form

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1C

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Why do you use connecting words like "Firstly", "Secondly" and "Finally"?

• To introduce the topic of the essay

• To show that my predictions are important

• To organise my predictions

• To organise my conclusion

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

Which linking phrase has NO comma?

• Firstly

• I think that

• In this essay

• In my opinion

Complete this prediction: "Secondly, I believe that there __________ be any cars."

• could

• going to

• can

• won't

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

What is a good topic sentence for this essay question: "What changes will there be in the way people eat in the next 20 years?"

• Eating is important both now and in the future.

• I am going to write a prediction essay.

• Many things will probably change in the way we eat in the next 20 years.

• The main change in eating in the next 20 years will be more fast food.