1 WRITING UNIT PARAGRAPH REVIEW Group 8: Nguyễn Thị Thanh Phương Bùi Ngọc Thanh Giang Võ Thị Hiền 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 All of the sentences in the paragraph relate to the main topic • The first line of a paragraph is indented • The concluding sentence brings the paragraph to a logical ending • Feature of a Paragraph • topic sentence Controls or guides the whole paragraph Is not a general fact that everyone accepts as true A good topic sentence Specific but not too specific Has controlling ideas What? Who? Where? Why? When? How? The concluding sentence restatement suggestion opinion prediction EXAMPLE: 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 8 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 9 • Subject-verb agreement • Verb tenses THE IMPORTANT ELEMENTS OF GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION • Capitalization and end punctuation • Avoiding sentence fragments and comma splices • Pronouns used for key nouns 10 Subject-verb agreement Complete the correct form of the verb that agrees with the subject Many of the girls (wear) white shirt Three kilos of potatoes (make) _ wear the basket heavier Some of the tables in the classroom (be) _ broken make What we need most (be) _books were are When I last saw him, he _ in London VERB TENSES A has lived B is living C was living D has been living We _ Dorothy since last Saturday A don’t see B haven’t seen C didn’t see D hadn’t seen The train half an hour ago A has been leaving C has left B left D had left 11 12 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 13 Correct 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 14 AVOIDING SENTENCE FRAGMENTS AND COMMA SPLICES Determine whether the following groups of words are comma splices, fragments, or correct sentences Should be able to visit Please stand up Fragments Correct sentence I rode my bike over the rocks, I got a flat tire Comma splice 15 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 It stars the sky 16 THAT´S ALL T HA N K S FOR YOUR TIME