Good morning everyone, It’s great to see you all here today.

My name is Duyen and on behalf of

group 2 allow me to welcome you to Unit 2 lesson. OK, Before we start the lesson, I’d like to take a
second to organize mini games for everyone. We will have a race, whoever finishes first will receive
a special reward that will answer the questions. Are you ready? Let’s star.
(TRÒ CHƠI CHẠY)
(Good job/Well done/ Congratulation/ It’s correct answer,…../ Thank U for your answer)
How many kinds of paragraphs are there in Academic Writing? What are they

There are 5: Descriptive, Example, Process, Opinion, Narrative.

In a paragraph, how many parts does it have? What are they

There are 3, TS, SS, CS.

In TS, it have how many parts? And what definition of that?

Topic, controlling idea.

Topic: is what the writer want tp talk about the topic

CI: is what the writer feel about the topic.

What is the role of SS? What thing does SS must have?

Support for the topic.

The unity.

How many ways to write CS are there in Acedemic Writing? What are they?

4: Restate, Warning, Prediction, Opinion.

Well done. Thank you for your answer, you have prepared the lesson very well. So I think you can

answer this question. How many purpose are there for the paragraphs and what are they?

8, Argue, Compare, Demonstrate, Explain causes or effects, Explain the reason, Provide the steps in a process,
Narrate, Describe.

As you know, there are many different types of paragraphs and depending on each paragraph we
have different uses that create its characteristics. Today we will learn about one of them, a passage
that helps readers think of clear images of things – Descriptive Paragraph. it also has three parts
like other paragraphs.
Topic
Supporting
Concluding
To help you better understand the purpose of the three parts, we will go through examples to help review
knowledge. I have two paragraphs. In each paragraph, I will show you the answers for each parts.
B. ANALYZING PARAGRAPH 1:

Title: The Long Life of My Grandfather’s Car (It is in the middle of the paragraph)

Topic sentence is the first sentence in paragraph: I own a car that has special meaning for me because it belonged
to my grandfather.

- Topic: A car – belonged to my grandfather

- Controlling idea: Special meaning for me

Concluding sentence is the end sentence in paragraph that: Someday I will use it to travel to all the states and
cities that my grandfather visited when he was a young man.

- Topic: It???????

- Strategy: Restate (The car is very important because it belong to his grandfather)

- Signal: Because It restate sentences in the topic is The car belong to his grandfather

Supporting ideas:

+The feeling about the car.

+What place want to travel with the car.

C. ANALYZING PARAGRAPH 2

Title: An Abacus

Topic sentence: I have an ancient abacus from my mother’s village.

-Topic: Abacus

-Controlling idea: I have an ancient abacus

Concluding sentence: With an abacus, my children touch the beads and can see why the answer is correct.

-Topic: an abacus

-Strategy: Restate

-Signal: Because It restate word in the topic is an abacus

Supporting ideas:

+ helps readers know the ways of the abacus.

+ helps readers know the structures of the abacus and how to use the abacus.

+ show a reader a tool used to calculate in an ancient time

OK, Through these two paragraphs, I hope you will better understand the structure and function of each part
of the paragraph. If you have any questions, please email me to receive the most detailed response. Thank you
for your listening.