1. Making a good first impression Aims 1.To know how to write the perfect introduction 2.To plan your exposition composition out

2. You meet someone important for the first time How should you make a good first impression on them? Imagine…..

3. you should make an impact and impress them, so that they form a good impression of you for the rest of your acquaintance. What should a good written introduction do? Make it clear what the composition will be about – perhaps a general introduction to the topic Grab the reader’s attention State your thesis/main idea It should be neither too short, nor too long.

4. Your task 1.Read the 4 introductions to an essay on the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore 2.Give each introduction a mark out of 5

5. What could I do? –A rhetorical question could make your reader think e.g. ‘Have you ever considered where all your waste goes to? (a composition about recycling) –Include a fact/statistic e.g. ‘80% of all waste ends up in landfill sites, which Singapore is quickly running out of’ –An anecdote – make it personal to you to make it real for your reader e.g. do you have a friend who smokes? I do. Her name is Alice. –Include triplets to cement the idea in your reader’s head.

6. Should people give money to charity? YES – why?NO – why?

7. Today’s main task 1.Plan out your ‘burger’ – the main ideas for your exposition 2.Write the introduction, to be assessed by a peer at the end of the lesson.

8. Peer Assessment Check a peer’s introduction and give a mark out of 5 for it. Does it: Make it clear what the composition will be about – perhaps a general introduction to the topic? Grab the reader’s attention? State their thesis/main idea? Neither too long nor too short?

9. Homework – for Monday Write the first draft of your exposition ‘Should people give money to charity?’ I will collect them in on Monday to check, then you will need to complete the final version over the March holiday.