Alternatively, divide the class into two teams. One team chooses a topic sentence and reads it aloud. The other team must give the information triggered by that topic sentence. Accept a prediction or the actual paragraph content. However, ask students which it is – prediction or actual.
Language note
There is no universal logic to the structuring of information in a text. The order of information is language-specific. For example, oriental languages tend to have a topic sentence or paragraph summary at the end, not the beginning, of the paragraph. Students whose first language is Arabic might structure a particular type of discourse in a different way from native English speakers. So, it is important for students to see what a native-speaker writer would consider to be a ‘logical’ ordering.
2 Refer students back to the photos in Exercise C. Students should find it easier to comment on these now that they have read the text.
3 Focus on some of the vocabulary from the text, including:
