U1_W-P 大学体验英语综合教程三第一单元（ 电子教案）幻灯片课件.ppt

Return to Menu; To write a good paragraph in communication, the writer first needs to decide upon his purpose or idea and to try to make it clear to his reader in a topic sentence. Then, almost immediately, he should develop his idea by presenting relevant supporting details. After that, he needs to give a logical conclusion to the idea just discussed to satisfy the reader psychologically. With all this, and with various other means of paragraph development, he organizes the paragraph and gives it an overall structure of unity.;Examine the sample below to see how the topic sentence (TS) establishes the focus, how the developing sentences (DS) present the supporting details, and how the concluding sentence (CS) summarizes the main idea.;Exercise 16;Ex. 16 Identify the functions of the following sentences and rearrange them in logical order to form a continuous whole. The last sentence has been done for you. (Note: This paragraph, developed from the same topic sentence as in the sample, has a new focus — the awareness of the energy shortage instead of the bicycles new popularity.);Ex. 17 Supply relevant supporting details to each of the following topic sentences and work out one reasonable conclusion for each of them.;Global warming is one of the most pressing environmental issues today. Cars and factories release large amounts of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere each year. These gasses trap heat and make our atmosphere warmer and warmer. If we do not start to do something about it right now, we will suffer growing consequences such as floods and droughts, and vast coastal areas will be under water.;Plastic wastes are becoming a harmful environmental problem. Plastic products, such as bags, containers, boxes, etc. have brought us convenience, but they have also brought disastrous problems to our environment. As it is difficult to dispose of plastic wastes, they will pile up on the earth for tens, or even hundreds of years. Besides, plastics are the cause of man