Lesson 3 | Writing - How to write an introduction

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How are you feeling today?

Aim

At the end of today's class, you will be able to write an introduction.

Hindsight

What did we do last week? And what did you learn?

Read these paragraphs

1. Hi, my name is Peter. I am 18 years old, and I live with my cat. I also have a plant called Tony, he's my little friend, perhaps you can meet him someday. However, today is not about me, I am going to talk about cars.

2. Cars are used for the means of transport, we can travel a long distance in a short amount of time if travelled by a car compared to travelling on foot. It was first invented in 1769 by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot in France, but the vehicle he invented was a three wheeled automobile which was quite heavy and had very slow speed, and it worked only with steam.

What's the difference?

What is something that an introduction always has?

Topic sentence

What is a good topic sentence / what does it do?

Topic sentence

A topic sentence is the most important sentence in a paragraph. It's specific enough to give a clear sense of what to expect from the paragraph, but general enough that it doesn't give everything away. You can think of it like a signpost: it should tell the reader which direction your argument is going in.

It grabs the reader's attention.

Questions?

Practice

Add a good introduction

your essay subject is: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Aim

At the end of today's class, you will be able to write an introduction.

Next time

How to write body paragraphs

How did you like today's class?

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