Writing The topic sentence (主题句) 英语应用文写作技巧 培训资料.ppt

The fundamental skills of English writing The topic sentence (主题句) British people usually think in a direct way. So they are used to focus on one idea in one paragraph. In order to send the information to the reader directly , in a paragraph a topic sentence is needed. The topic sentence is the centre of the whole paragraph. The location of the topic sentence? The high school student often have to study deep into the night, and their parents become worried. The parents think that they might get ill if they continue like that, so some of them try to persuade their children to work less and rest more. But most of the boys and the girls do not dare to relax even a little. As a result, the parents have to turn to the teachers for help and ask them to assign less homework. The high school student often have to study deep into the night, and their parents become worried. The parents think that they might get ill if they continue like that, so some of them try to persuade their children to work less and rest more. But most of the boys and the girls do not dare to relax even a little. As a result, the parents have to turn to the teachers for help and ask them to assign less homework. In some places of Peru and Bolivia, one speaks of the future as “ behind oneself” and the past as “ahead”. It makes foreigners puzzled. But the people in those places will explain it by saying:” If you try to see the past and future with your mind’s eye, which can you see? Obviously, it is the past that we can see, and so it must be ahead of us; and the future, which you cannot see, is of course behind you. Such an explanation suggests that there may be opposite ways of describing the same thing, yet they are both reasonable. The vegetable market was surrounded by baskets of green peppers, spinach, eggplant, green lettuce and a dozen other vegetables for which I don’t even know the names- I almost forgot that I was in a winter vegetable market in nort