Practice: write an abstract based on the notes given

1.Research methods: data analysis— number of years that students participated in inquiry-based science instruction, use of science notebooks.

2.Results: achievement of English learners corresponds to number of years they participated in the project.

3.Conclusion: the longer in the program, the higher the scores in science, writing, reading, and mathematics.

Which of the words in italics would be more suitable for an academic paper?

1.The government has made good / considerable progress in solving environmental problems.

2.We got / obtained encouraging results.

3.The results of a lot of / numerous different projects have been pretty good / encouraging.

4.A loss of jobs is one of the things that will happen / consequences if the process is automated.

The rule of parallelism is broken in the following sentences. Change them into parallel ones.

1.My English conversation class is made up of Chinese, Spaniards, and some are from Bosnia.

2.The students who do well attend class, they do their homework, and practice speaking in English.

3.The teacher wanted to know which country we came from and our future goals.

4.The language skills of the students in the evening classes are the same as the day class.

Study the following examples of sentence fragments and suggest methods to correct them.

1.Because finding a suitable marriage partner is a challenging task.

2.For example, the increase in the cost of renting an apartment.

3.Feeling lonely and failing most of his classes.

4.Many young people who leave home at an early age.

5.Although people want to believe that all men are created equal.

       6.Many of the children who didn’t have the opportunity to visit the newly-built Science and Technology Museum.

Practice：The line graph below shows the rates of smoking in Someland among men and women. Describe the trends you can identify, using the words rate, decrease, increase, peak, smoker, stable, high. Check how many sentence patterns you can employ.

 

Read the novel Animal Farm and write a summary of it.

        Choose a book which you think is meaningful and well written, and write a summary of it.