4 - Produção escrita: tipos de sentença - INGLÊS I

Atividade I

As Topic Sentences são:

1. I lived in a small town when I was a child. 

2. When I have my own children, I want to move to a small town. 

3. The town I live is very small. 

4. There are two main advantages of living in a small town.

Paragraph A: Topic sentence (4) 

First, you know everyone and everyone knows you. This helps you to feel safe, and it is friendlier. Secondly, it is quiet and there are fewer cars. This means there is less pollution than in a big town or city.  

Paragraph B: Topic sentence (1) 

It was a very nice place to live then. Now it is much bigger than before. More people live there and some big businesses opened offices there. My parents still live there but they say it was better in the past.

Paragraph C: Topic sentence (2) 

I don’t want my children to live in a big city because a big city is not as friendly or as safe as a village. I want to move to the village where my grandparents live. The children can play in the street there and everyone knows each other

Paragraph D: Topic sentence (3) 

There are only a few food shops and one school here. Most people go to the big city to go shopping for clothes and gifts. There is a doctor’s but there isn’t a hospital. Again, you need to go to the city if you need the hospital. However, our town is very nice and it has a beautiful park.

Atividade 2

Function

1. Topic sentence 

2. Supporting sentence(s) 

3. Concluding sentence

Sentences

a. (1)  Studying abroad has two main benefits. 

b. (2)  Firstly, people who study abroad can get a better job when they return to their home country. This is because their qualifi- cations and experience mean that they tend to get jobs that are higher paid, and they can also gain promotion quickly. 

c. (2)  Another advantage of studying abroad is the independence  students can gain. For example, students have to cope with the challenges of living alone and meeting new people from diferente cultures. As a consequence, they will become more confidente in their life and in their relationship with others.

d. (3)  All in all, it is clear that studying abroad is a benefical experience.

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Professora Renata Mendes Simões.