Paragraph Review (lí thuyết chung về viết đoạn văn)

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UNIT 5

PARAGRAPH REVIEW

Group 8:

1. Nguyễn Thị Thanh Phương

2. Bùi Ngọc Thanh Giang

3. Võ Thị Hiền

4. Hồ Thái An

PARAGRAPH REVIEW

In the past four units, we have learned about paragraph Now

we will take a moment to review what we have learned after all this time.

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Feature of a Paragraph

A good topic sentence

Controls or guides the whole paragraph

Is not a general fact that everyone accepts as true

Specific but not too specific

Has controlling ideas

topic sentence

Who? What?

prediction

restatement

suggestion The concluding sentence

Education should be equitable in other to be fair This means that everyone should have

equal access to education Boys and girls should have the same educational provision This doesn’t mean that they have to be taught together in the same classroom They may need

to have a separate curriculum The important thing is that everyone should have the same

opportunities.

LANGUAGE FOCUS REVIEW

All these elements of grammar and punctuation are

important for a good paragraph We will have a

chance to practice these items.

THE IMPORTANT ELEMENTS OF

GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION

• Subject-verb agreement

• Verb tenses

• Capitalization and end punctuation

• Avoiding sentence fragments and comma splices

• Pronouns used for key nouns

Subject-verb agreement

Complete the correct form of the verb that agrees with the subject

1. Many of the girls (wear) white shirt

2. Three kilos of potatoes (make) _ the basket heavier

3. Some of the tables in the classroom (be) _ broken

4. What we need most (be) _books

wear

were

are

make

VERB TENSES

A has lived B is living

C was living D has been living

2 We _ Dorothy since last Saturday

A don’t see B haven’t seen

C didn’t see D hadn’t seen

3 The train half an hour ago

A has been leaving B left

C has left D had left

CAPITALIZATION AND END PUNCTUATION

Add capitals and punctuation that make the word groups into complete sentences

an elephant is the biggest living animal on land it is quite huge in size it is usually black or grey

in color elephants have four legs a long trunk and two white tusks near their trunk apart from this they have two big ears and a short tail elephants are vegetarian they eat all kinds of plants especially bananas they are quite social intelligent and useful animals they are used to carry logs of wood from one place to another they are good swimmers

An elephant is the biggest living animal on land It is quite huge in size It is usually black

or grey in color Elephants have four legs, a long trunk and two white tusks near their trunk Apart from this, they have two big ears and a short tail Elephants are vegetarian They eat all kinds of plants especially bananas They are quite social, intelligent and useful animals They are used to carry logs of wood from one place to another They are good swimmers

AVOIDING SENTENCE FRAGMENTS AND COMMA SPLICES

Determine whether the following groups of words are comma splices, fragments, or correct sentences

1. Should be able to visit

2 Please stand up

3 I rode my bike over the rocks, I got a flat tire

Fragments

Correct sentence

Comma splice

Pronouns used for key nouns

Ants are very hardworking insects Throughout the summers they collect food for the winter season Whenever they find a sweet lying on the floor they stick to the sweet and carry it to

their home

Stars look tiny in the sky because they are far away from the Earth In ancient times the sky watchers found patterns of stars in it.

 

 

They ants

It the sweet

They stars

It the sky

THAT´S ALL