Making a good first impression Aims 1.To know how to write the perfect introduction 2.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 for 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 long.

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.