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1. Read the following set of sentences and rewrite them in the correct order to
make a funnel introduction and identify the thesis statement.

a) If done properly, a handshake gives the impression of strength and

honesty, and if done improperly, it conveys weakness and dishonesty.
b) In some cultures, people bow, and in others, they shake hands.
c) In English-speaking countries, shaking hands is the custom.
d) A proper handshake has four ingredients: pressure, pumps, eye contact,
and verbal message.
e) The way people greet each other when they meet for the first time varies
from culture to culture.
f) How one shakes hands sends an important message about one's
character.
2. Read the following set of sentences and rewrite them in the correct order to
make a funnel introduction and identify the thesis statement.

a) Teenagers are faced with a variety of conflicts and problems that seem
almost impossible to overcome.
b) Most of these problems are related with school, which is not surprising.
c) The life of a teenager in modern America is not always pleasant.
d) The major problems created by school are intense pressure for good
grades, bullying, and disability of using technology.
e) As teenagers spend an average of eight hours a day in school and school-
related activities.
3. Read the following set of sentences and rewrite them in the correct order to
make a funnel introduction and identify the thesis statement.

a) As these devices have become more affordable and user friendly, their
popularity has increased dramatically.
b) Few Americans can deny that they spend an unhealthy amount of time on
their cell phones.
c) It is believed that the teenaged demographic has been impacted by this
technology the most.
d) Some negative effects associated with increased cell phone use by
teenagers are a lack of development of face-to-face social skills, an
inability to focus on their studies, and an increased likelihood of getting
into trouble.
e) Some might argue that their lives have improved because of access to cell
phones, but others would likely disagree.
4. Read the following set of sentences and rewrite them in the correct order to
make a funnel introduction and identify the thesis statement.

a) Host countries and institutions are eager to accept international students

while the students are intrigued by the possibility of international travel.
b) One of the elements of globalization that is of particular interest in the
field of education is study abroad programs.
c) Studying abroad has become an opportunity that is available to many
students for many reasons especially at the university level.
d) Globalization has impacted all aspects of modern-day life, from a
country's commerce and politics to a family's everyday decision-making
strategy at the grocery store.
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5. Read the following set of sentences and rewrite them in the correct order to
make a funnel introduction and identify the thesis statement.

a) As a result, a decreasing number of people are employed in

manufacturing.
b) How many shoemakers or bakers do you know?
c) The world is rapidly changing from an industrial economy to a service
economy.
d) There are fewer and fewer small factories and farms.
e) According to the authority of the provider, there are three basic
relationships between service providers and consumers: customer and
salesperson, student and teacher, and patient and doctor.
f) In a service economy such as ours, there are service providers and
consumers, who receive a service.
g) You probably don't know any, but you do know the advertising people for
the shoemakers and the salespeople for oven manufacturers.
6. Read the following set of sentences and rewrite them in the correct order to
make a funnel introduction and identify the thesis statement.

a) Today, Greenpeace continues to protect the environment by exposing

illegal fishing, saving old forests, and reducing the pollution of our air and
water.
b) The organization was started in the early 1970s to defend human, animal,
and plant life.

c) The Greenpeace Foundation is an organization of ordinary people and

scientists from around the world who find solutions to global
environmental problems.

7. Read the following "skeleton" essay. Only the introductory paragraph

and topic sentences for the body paragraphs are given. Now write a
concluding paragraph for the essay.

Moving to a new country can be an exciting, even exhilarating experience.

In a new environment, you somehow feel more alive: seeing new sights, eating
new food, hearing the foreign sounds of a new language, and feeling a different
climate against your skin stimulate your senses as never before. Soon, however,
this sensory bombardment becomes sensory overload. Suddenly, new
experiences seem stressful rather than stimulating, and delight turns into
discomfort. This is the phenomenon known as culture shock. Culture shock is
more than jet lag or homesickness, and it affects nearly everyone who enters
a new culture-tourists, business travelers, diplomats, and students alike.
Although not everyone experiences culture shock in exactly the same way,
many experts agree that it has roughly five stages.

Topic Sentence 1: In the first stage, you are excited by your new environment.

Topic Sentence 2: Sooner or later, differences in behavior and customs become

more noticeable to you.

Topic Sentence 3: In the third stage, you no longer have positive feelings about
the new culture.
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Topic Sentence 4: You know that you are in the fourth stage of culture shock
when you have negative feelings about almost everything.

Topic Sentence 5: Finally, as your language skills improve, you begin to

have some success in meeting people and in negotiating situations.
8. Read the following "skeleton" essay. Only the introductory paragraph
and topic sentences for the body paragraphs are given. Now write a
concluding paragraph for the essay.

Weather plays an important role in our life. Most of us prefer sunshine and calm
weather. We like sunbathing on a warm beach or hiking in the mountains on a
clear, cloudless day. However, some people actually prefer intense storm or bad
weather. For them bad weather is very expected thing to deal with. These people
are ocean racer, storm spotters, and storm chasers who love the challenge of
fighting nature.

Topic Sentence 1: Ocean racers are people who prefer strong winds to a soft
breeze to win a sailboat.

Topic Sentence 2: The second group, storm spotters, consists of people who
volunteer to help predict the weather for those who need accurate information,
such as boat captains.

Topic Sentence 3: Some chasers make up the last group, and they are the real
weather fanatics who follow storms in their cars or trucks just for fun and
pleasure.

9. Read the following "skeleton" essay. Only the introductory paragraph

and topic sentences for the body paragraphs are given. Now write a
concluding paragraph for the essay.

We often think, and rightly so, that human beings are destroying the Earth and
the environment, but it is also true that sometimes the Earth and the environment
become the destroyers and they prove to be stronger than human beings what can
fight against them. Earthquakes, hurricanes, and droughts cause huge damage to
the Earth which is uncontrollable. In some cases natural belonging like trees,
insects, even virus and bacteria can defeat human being. However, nature is
always demonstrating to us that it is stronger than we are.

Topic Sentence 1: Trees can survive despite the fact that we are cutting them for
our own benefits.

Topic Sentence 2: Furthermore, nature’s insects are far stronger than any human
being who can come into our nicely constructed houses or buildings either to
destroy them or make them very unpleasant to live in.

Topic Sentence 3: Different types of virus and bacteria as the smallest entity of
the environment are more powerful than we are what can cause serious disease
and even death.
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Topic Sentence 4: Natural hazards and disasters cause huge damage to the Earth
which is uncontrollable.

10. Read the following "skeleton" essay. Only the introductory paragraph
and topic sentences for the body paragraphs are given. Now write a
concluding paragraph for the essay.

Fish has been an important food source for people all over the world. It is high in
protein, low in fat, and has many essential vitamins. However, these days, getting
fish from the ocean may be damaging both the ocean and its future. Ocean
fishing now is big business, so fishing companies want to get as much fish as
possible from the ocean. However, their methods, such as overfishing, fish
farming, and bottom trawling, are threats to our oceans.

Topic Sentence 1: Overfishing is a major problem as it happens when modern

and technologically advanced ships hunt for fish.

Topic Sentence 2: Some people think that fish farming is the answer to
overfishing in the ocean though it is also damaging the ocean because smaller
fishes in huge quantity are being removed to feed the fishes in the farm.

Topic Sentence 3: Bottom trawling is a term that describes catching fish at the
bottom of the ocean which also a threat to ocean as it takes many things from the
bottom of the ocean which eventually get destroyed.

11. Read the following "skeleton" essay. Only the introductory paragraph
and topic sentences for the body paragraphs are given. Now write a
concluding paragraph for the essay.

Since the middle of the 1990s, the ability to communicate electronically has
expanded dramatically. Electronic communication is changing how people relate
to one another. However, one thing remains constant: These new forms of
communication are not face to face. They are distant, and they keep people at a
distance. In my opinion, due to electronic communication, relationships today are
changing for the worse; they have become fragmented, superficial, and
anonymous.

Topic Sentence 1: Communication these days is becoming a process of

exchanging messages of two or three words which is called fragmented
communication where there is no scope of deep and long conversation to share
feelings.

Topic Sentence 2: No one reads e- mail messages carefully because there are just
too many of them which making human relationships more superficial day by
day.

Topic Sentence 3: In electric communication it is very easy to communicate with

others anonymously that means one can pretend to be anyone else which is
extremely alarming.
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12. Read the following "skeleton" essay. Only the introductory paragraph
and topic sentences for the body paragraphs are given. Now write a
concluding paragraph for the essay.

The world is rapidly changing from an industrial economy to a service economy.

There are fewer and fewer small factories and farms. As a result, a decreasing
number of people are employed in manufacturing. How many shoemakers or
bakers do you know? You probably don't know any, but you do know the
advertising people for the shoemakers and the salespeople for oven
manufacturers. In a service economy such as ours, there are service providers
and consumers, who receive a service. According to the authority of the provider,
there are three basic relationships between service providers and consumers:
customer and salesperson, student and teacher, and patient and doctor.

Topic Sentence 1: In the service relationship between the customer and the
salesperson, the customer has all the authority.

Topic Sentence 2: We still believe that our teacher knows much more about the
subject than we do, so in this service relationship, the teacher has a medium level
of authority.

Topic Sentence 3: Certain service providers have such specialized skills and
knowledge that we tend to allow them complete authority in making decisions
about what's best like, the doctor-patient relationship.

13. Read the following thesis statements and identify their topics, controlling
ideas and predictors.

a) The Father of Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, believed that the human

mind had three separate parts: the id, the ego, and the superego.
b) A proper handshake has four ingredients: pressure, pumps, eye contact,
and verbal message.
c) There are many ways animals can protect themselves from predators,
such as camouflage, running fast or fighting.
d) Teenagers declare their separateness from their parents by the way they
dress and by the way they talk.
e) Native Americans have made many valuable contributions to modern U.S.
culture particularly in the areas of language, art, food and government.
f) These people are ocean racers, storm spotters and storm chasers who
love the challenge of fighting nature.
g) The large movement of people from rural to urban areas has major effect
on a city’s ability to provide housing, employment and adequate
sanitation services.
h) Inflation has three causes: excessive government spending, unrestrained
consumer borrowing, and an increase in the supply of paper money.
i) Young people in my culture have less freedom than young people in the
United States in three areas: where they live, whom they marry, and what
their job is.
j) Almost all my friends can be divided into worrywart, bookworms, and
fatalists.
k) In most occupations, women are still unequal to men in three areas:
salary, power and status.
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l) A college degree in international business requires a knowledge of
business procedures and a knowledge of cultural difference.
m) Some negative effects associated with increased cell phone use by
teenagers are a lack of development of face-to-face social skills, an
inability to focus on their studies, and an increased likelihood of getting
into trouble.
n) The major problems created by school are intense pressure for good
grades, bullying, and disability of using technology.
o) According to the authority of the provider, there are three basic
relationships between service providers and consumers: customer and
salesperson, student and teacher, and patient and doctor.

14. Read the following thesis statements and make at least two topic sentences
for each of them that supports the thesis statements

a) Pollution, waste and climate change are threatening freshwater supplies.

b) Growing up, my favorite time of years was winter because of cold
weather, lots of vegetables and fashionable dress.
c) The stages of the cycle of water have not changed since the earth formed.
d) Buying and drinking bottled water is crazy.
e) In my opinion, due to electronic communication, relationships today are
changing for the worse; they have become fragmented, superficial, and
anonymous.
f) However, their methods, such as overfishing, fish farming, and bottom
trawling, are threats to our oceans.
g) However, nature is always demonstrating to us that it is stronger than we
are.
h) These people are ocean racer, storm spotters, and storm chasers who love
the challenge of fighting nature.