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Making a good first impression
Aims1. To know how to write the
perfect introduction2. To plan your exposition
composition out
• You meet someone important for the first time
• How should you make a good first impression on them?
Imagine…..
you should make an impact and impress them, so that they form a good impression of you fo
r the rest of your acquaintance.
What should a good written introduction do?
• Make it clear what the composition will be about – perhaps a general introduction to the topic
• Grab the reader’s attention• State your thesis/main idea• It should be neither too short, nor too lo
ng.
Your task
1. Read the 4 introductions to an essay on the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore
2. Give each introduction a mark out of 5
What could I do?
– A rhetorical question could make your reader think e.g. ‘Have you ever considered where all your waste goes to? (a composition about recycling)
– Include a fact/statistic e.g. ‘80% of all waste ends up in landfill sites, which Singapore is quickly running out of’
– An anecdote – make it personal to you to make it real for your reader e.g. do you have a friend who smokes? I do. Her name is Alice.
– Include triplets to cement the idea in your reader’s head.
Should people give money to charity?
YES – why? NO – why?
Today’s main task
1. Plan out your ‘burger’ – the main ideas for your exposition
2. Write the introduction, to be assessed by a peer at the end of the lesson.
Peer Assessment
Check a peer’s introduction and give a mark out of 5 for it.
Does it:• Make it clear what the composition
will be about – perhaps a general introduction to the topic?
• Grab the reader’s attention?• State their thesis/main idea?• Neither too long nor too short?
Homework – for Monday
• Write the first draft of your exposition ‘Should people give money to charity?’
• I will collect them in on Monday to check, then you will need to complete the final version over the March holiday.