Month: July 2022

Sentence Starters

Sentence starters can help you to express your ideas more clearly. They can also help you to practice or review specific aspects of language.

1 Express yourself

This is a fairly elementary exercise to get students expressing their own ideas.

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2 Adjective sentence starters

An adjective sentence starters exercise for English language students to review and/ or practice expressing themselves with adjectives.

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3 Present perfect sentence starters

This is a sentence starter exercise which attempts to cover many of the variations of the usage of the present perfect tense.

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4 Job interview sentence starters

This is a useful exercise for preparing for and practicing job interviews.

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5 Letter writing sentence starters

Letter writing sentence starters can help improve the writing skills of Business English students.

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6 Reflective sentence starters

A more advanced exercise for students with really good grammar, language and critical thinking skills.

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7 Flight attendant sentence starters

Sentence starter (or complete the sentence) exercises are a good way to introduce, practice and review the language of flight attendants.

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6 Exercises for Teaching Topic Sentences

Why should students learn about topic sentences?

A topic sentence is the most important sentence in a paragraph. It tells the reader what the paragraph is about. If you don’t know how to write a topic sentence, your paragraph will probably be confusing. A well-written topic sentence can make your paragraph more interesting.

1 Introduction to topic sentences quiz

This quiz is a nice way to introduce topic sentences.

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2 Sentence starters for topic sentences

Sentence starters provide an easy and smooth way of getting students familiar with topic sentences.

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3 Understanding topic sentences

Topic sentences are essential for summarizing the main idea of an essay. This worksheet can be used to test students’ understanding of topic sentences.

Understanding topic sentences exercises (PDF)

4 Writing topic sentences for essays and paragraphs (with possible answers)

In this worksheet students practice writing topic sentences by looking at the pictures, thinking about what kind of essay each picture might inspire, and writing an appropriate topic sentence.

Writing topic sentences exercise (PDF)

5 Creating topic sentences from supporting ideas

This is another way to help students understand the function of a topic sentence.

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6  Writing topic sentences for paragraphs or essays (with possible answers)

Topic sentences are essential for summarizing the main idea of a paragraph. Paragraphs often have topic sentences supported by three ideas. So in this worksheet students practice writing topic sentences by looking at the pictures and trying to summarize three ideas in one topic sentence.

Writing topic sentences for paragraphs or essays (PDF)

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7 Finding and creating topic sentences

This is a useful exercise to help students identify and create topic sentences.

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