Prime Time 5/6, Writing, Arbeitsheft

4 64 Assessment 5. If you have a well-formulated statement by a famous person at hand that clearly states an opinion with wich you agree or disagree, why not put it at the beginning of your text? You can use it independently or combined with other types of introductions. 6. Starting your text with a question is a useful tool for drawing the reader in. It may also help you to structure your text because it helps the reader understand with which information your text will deal. It is recommended to use information questions rather than yes-/no-questions. 7. When a difficult or unknown term is going to be used throughout your text, defining that term can serve as an introduction. That way, you might also distinguish your specific approach from other possible interpretations of the topic. Writing: Best practice examples for writing an introduction a) Read through the following seven example introductions. b) While reading, fill in the labels for the techniques used from task 52. Technique Sample introduction 1. Some people don’t own their own houses, but share a block of apartments. These blocks are divided into several flats. In every flat, there are people with different likes and dislikes. Some neighbours may be perfectly nice people, but seem to have a completely different concept of noise pollution. 2. Charles M. Schulz once said, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.” However, absence also makes the eyes see more clearly. At least, it makes your eyes see once-familiar things in a new light. If you have lived in a city all your life, it becomes so familiar to you that … . 3. Who would willingly dive into water that never gets warmer than ten degrees Celsius? Surprisingly, many British Columbian scuba divers do exactly that twelve months a year. This may surprise many divers who only consider the sport in the context of white sand beaches and cloudless skies. 4. It’s everywhere you look. Dispensed on almost every street corner and found in almost every home. Cups of it are held in the hands of workers, students, homemak- ers and movie stars. North Americans love their coffee. What is it about this brew that makes it so popular? 5. TOEFL and TOEIC are two acronyms that you can frequently hear in the field of English language learning, but what do they actually mean? TOEFL, or Test of English as a Foreign Language, is an academic test of a student’s level of listening, reading and writing. Although TOEIC is a test of English as well, it is more specifically … . 6. I remember my dad grumbling about water going everywhere as he put the hose back in place. Every year in winter, my dad took the effort to turn our back yard into a sheet of ice. To us kids, the thought of having our own ice rink on which to skate was too exciting to make us stop and think about all his troubles. 7. The fact that one in every five teenagers between the ages of thirteen and fifteen smokes calls into question the efficiency of laws prohibiting advertising cigarettes to children and teenagers. One would think that the gruesome images and horrible facts printed on cigarette packs were sufficient to turn young people away from smoking … . 53  Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv