Lab Activity 17: Practice with Illustrations and Examples

Lab Activities
Lab Activity 17: Practice with Illustrations and Examples

Objective: To use examples in paragraphs.

Step 2: Answer the following questions.

1. Choose the support point that would be appropriate for this topic sentence:
San Francisco sounds like a great place to call home.

It's just beautiful there.

It can get really cold there.

The city is crowded.

The city can be kind of scary.

2. Choose another support point that would be appropriate for this topic sentence:
San Francisco sounds like a great place to call home.

The cost of living there is very high.

There's a wonderful mix of people and cultures.

Traffic can be a real nightmare.

There's a big homelessness problem.

3. Choose the specific example that helps to develop this support point:
I love how mysterious the city seems.

When the fog rolls in, it covers everything in a fine mist so that even the most common thing seems exotic.

Sometimes there's a lot of fog.

Strange things happen.

Some of the people are strange.

4. Choose the specific example that helps to develop this support point:
It's a major city with all the attractions of a major city.

It's a really big city and you can do a lot of things there.

There are so many things to do that you can't do them all in a day or even in a week.

The museums, theaters, parks, and concert halls are among the best in the country.

You really can't get bored there.

5. Choose the specific example that helps to develop this support point:
It's a city with a lot of history and romance.

The city is pretty old by California standards.

A lot of people think it's a romantic place.

Everyone knows about the gold miners.

The gold rush years, the early immigration of Chinese laborers, the 1907 earthquake, the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge—all of these events give the city an aura of excitement and romance.

6. San Francisco sounds like a great place to call home. (1)_______, it's just beautiful there. The Pacific Ocean is just off the coast, and the steep hills offer a wonderful panoramic view. (2)______, I love how mysterious it seems. (3)_______, in the early evening, the fog rolls in and covers everything in a fine mist so that even the most common thing seems exotic and unknown. In the foggy darkness, the most routine sounds—a car honking, a door slamming, a whispered conversation—seem odd or strange. (4)_______, the city has an exciting history. There are fascinating stories about the exploits of the early gold miners—the forty-niners—and the influx of Chinese laborers who came to work on the transcontinental railroad. (5)_______, San Francisco is a major city with all the attractions of a major city. You can go to the ballet, the opera, a rock concert, a Broadway play, the zoo, the aquarium, and the Museum of Modern Art, and you would still have thousands of other things left to see and do.

Select the appropriate transition for each blank.

Using the pulldown boxes, match each item on the left to the corresponding item at right.

(1) A. Secondly

(2) B. Thirdly

(3) C. First of all

(4) D. For example

(5) E. Finally