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2. Topie sentence: Living with an elderly parent has many benefits.

Advantages for elderly person    a. _

Live-in baby-sitter    (j)

Leam about the past    ^

Advantages for adult children

$erve useful role in family

Help with household tasks    0)

Advantages for grandchildren    (2)

Stay active and interested in young _c _

people

Morę attention from adults    ^ '

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Activity 3

Again, major and minor ideas are mixed together. In addition, in each outline one of the three major ideas is.missing and must be added. Put ideas in logical order by filling in the outlines that follow and adding a third major idea.

1. Topie sentence: Extending the school day would have several advantages.

Help children academically Parents know children are safe at the school

Morę time to spend on basics a Less pressure to cover subjects ąuickly

Morę time for extras like art, musie, and sports

Help working parents

Morę convenient to pick up children

at 4 or 5 p.m.

Teachers’ salaries would be raised

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2. Topie sentence: Living in a mobile home has many disadvantages. Cost of site rental can go up every a. --■

y^ear    (1) _

Tiny baths and bedrooms    ^

Few closets or storage areas

Crowded conditions in park Lack of space Noise from neighbors Resale value Iow compared to houses No privacy outside in tiny yards

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Activity 4

Read the following two paragraphs. Then outline each one in the space provided.

Write out the topie sentence in each case and summarize in a few words the

primary and secondary supporting materiał that fits under the topie sentence.

1.    Why I'm a Stay-at-Home Baseball Fan

I’d much rather stay at home and watch the bali gamę on television than go to the bali park. First of all, it’s cheaper to watch the gamę at home. I don’t have to spend $6 for a ticket and another $3 for a parking space. If I want some refreshments, I can have what's already in the refrigerator instead of shelling out another $2.50 for a limp, lukewarm hot dog and a watery Coke. Also, it's morę comfortable at home. I avoid a bumper-to-bumper drive to the bali park and pushy crowds who want to go through the same gate I do. I can lie ąuietly on my living-room sofa instead of sitting on a hard stadium seat with.noisy people all around me. Most of all, watching the gamę on television is morę informative. Not only do I see every play, which I might not from my $6 seat, but I see some of them two and three times on instant replay. In addition, I get each play explained to me in glorious detail. If I were at the bali park, I wouldn't know that the pitch our third baseman hit was a high and inside slider or that his grand-slam home run was a record-setting seventh in his career. So I'11 let the other fans spend their money, put up with traffic, crowds, and hard seats, and guess at the plays.

HI take my baseball lying down--at home.

Topie sentence:

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