- There we found a park and watching the good spot to stop and many other shows.
enjoy a colorful parade
of floats portraying the
history of the United
States.
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What we did on the first day
What we did on the second day
1. We boarded the monorail and rode around the park
1. Early the next morning we once again the climbed aboard the monorail and headed for another day of fun.
l) Repetition of key words: junk food, students (as are underlined)
2) Use of transitional signals: For one reason, Also, As a result, however (as are italicized)
Unit 1
Follow-up exercises
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Write a focused topic sentence for the following subject
Looking for jobs A person can look for a job in several ways. Penguins Penguins resemble human beings in many respects.
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4. l) Standing in the burned-out shell of my living room was a shocking experience. Above my head were charred beams, all that remained of our ceiling. In front of me, where our television and stereo had once stood, were twisted pieces of metal and chunks of blackened glass. Strangely, some items seemed little damaged by the fire. For example, I could see the TV tuner knob and a dusty CD under the rubble. I walked through the ashes until I came to what was left of our sofa. Behind the sofa had been a wall of family photographs. Now, the wall and the pictures were gone. I found only a water-logged scrap of my wedding picture.
- An hour passed quickly as float after float rolled by, depicting such
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4. A short time later, we decided we wanted lunch and began to poke around the restaurants.
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balls on the branches near the base of the tree. Meanwhile, the two older children were placing ornaments on the higher branches. Finally, our parents completed the decorating by placing a beautiful golden-haired angel at the very top of the tree. After we finished the tree, we hurriedly dressed and walked down the street to Midnight Mass. As we listened to the service, we remembered the reason we celebrated Christmas. Then we returned home where we ate some of Mother's Christmas goodies. We always ended our Christmas Eve ritual around 2 a.m. by gathering around the tree and singing "Silent Night."
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5. Paragraph 1
The world has enjoyed many benefits from the invention of telephone. Paragraph 2 I had a terrible morning today.
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8. Several techniques have been used to achieve coherence:
3) Use of pronouns: they, their, this (as are boldfaced)
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Unit 2 FOLLOW-UP EXERCISES
3. When I was a child, we never varied our Christmas Eve ritual. We always began our private celebration promptly at 6 p.m. on December 24 when the whole family assembled in our small kitchen. We watched as Mother and my older sister prepared a light supper. As soon as we finished the meal, we rushed into the living room to decorate the tree. The younger ing tinsel and colorful
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Personality One's personality plays an important role in foreign language learning. Weather Living in a place where the weather is always warm has many advantages.
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4. Paragraph I All inventions are either basic inventions or improvements on earlier inventions.
Paragraph 2 There was a serious accident in the chemistry lab yesterday. Paragraph 3 Nutritional deficiency is a major problem of the elderly.
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Concluding sentence:
Although we were very tired at midnight, we agreed that our two-day vacation at Disney World was one of the best we had ever had.
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4. Logical sequence of the sentences: 4 – 10 – 5 – 12 – 3 – 7 – 15 – 9 – 14 – 2 – 11 – 8 – 13 – 6 - 1
Topic sentence: My family spent two funfilled days at Disney World last year.
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Unit3 FOLLOW-UP EXERCISES
3. Logical sequence of the sentences: 3–6–1–4–7–5–2
Relationship:
Primarily, the organization of the paragraph represents movement in geographical space.
2. Getting off the car, 2. We got off at the first we headed for Space stop and immediately Mountain. - After waiting headed for the Country in line for almost an hour, Bear Jamboree. we boarded the famous - After waiting in a long roller coaster that took line, we thoroughly us for a thrilling ride enjoyed the singing and
-- At last we settled on the Cafe Orleans where we had either a late lunch or an
early dinner.
5. Afterward, we spent the remainder of the day browsing in the specialty shops of the Magic