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Acknowledgements I would like to dedicatethe Boostlr,r,ritingbooks to two very closecolleagues:Dean Staffordand YannickO'Neill.We have sharedmany experiencesand ideasabout teachingwriting skillsover the years,but your specialistknowledgeand enthusiasm for this aspect of learning and communication have always been an inspiration to me. Thanks mightily! Iason Renshaw The Publisherswould alsolike to thank the following teachersfor their suggestionsand comments on this course:Tara Cameron,RosanneCerello,Nancy Chan, ChangLi Ping,Ioy Chao,JessieChen,JosephineChen,ChiangYing-hsueh,Claire Cho, Cindy Chuang,Linda Chuang,Chueh Shiu-wen,Mark de Boer,Mieko Hayashida,Diana Ho, Lulu Hsu, EuniceIung, Hye Ri Kim, JakeKimball, JosieLai, Carol Lee,ElaineLee,Melody Lee,PeggyLi, EstherLim, Moon Ieong Lim, Iasmin Lin, Martin Lin, Catherine Littlehale Oki, Linda Liu, Tammy Liu, Goldie Luk, Ma Li-ling, Chizuko Matsushita, Geordie McGarty, YasuyoMito, Eunice Izumi Miyashita, Mari Nakamura, Yannick O'Neill, Coco Pan, Hannah Park, Karen Peng,Zanne Schultz, Kaj Schwermer,MiYeon Shin, Giant Shu, Dean Stafford, H1'LrnjuSuh,TanYung-hui, Devon Thagard, Iohn and Charlievan Goch,AnnieWang,Wang Shu-ling,Wu Lien-chun, SabrinaWu,Yeh Shihfen,TomYeh,LauraYoshida,andYunji Yun.
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ritin The Boost! Skills Seriesis the definitive ond comprehensive fourlevel seriesof skillsbooksfor junior EFLleame6.Theseries hos beendevelopedoround qge-qppropriote,cross-curriculor topics thqt developstudents'criticql thinking ond examinotion techniques.It followson integratedskillsopproochwith eochof the skillsbroughttogetherat the end of eochunit. The twelvecoreunitsin Boost! Writing 4 followo cleorqnd tronsporent structureto make teaching ond Ieqming eqsyond tun. The writing skills build ond progressocrossthe four levelsof Boost! Writing ond are co[elqted to the next generotionof tests of English. Youwill find the followingin Boost! Writing 4: a . . .
Age-opproprioteond cross-curriolor topics Modelsof goodwdting os well os exqmplesofbqd writing Writing practicethot builds from sentenceqnd parogroph levelsto full-lenglhpqssqges Activities thot provide on opportunity to creoteo wide voriety of text tFpes(essoys,letters,emqils, etc.)
Unit Topic - Eachunithasanage-appropriate and topic. cross-curricular Studentswill . findthetopicdirectlyrelates to their lives and study. own to learn. a beengaged andmotivated
Writing Skill of thetargeted A verysimpleintroduction unitskillis provided. Studentswill . be introduced to thewriting skillina clearand way. understandable
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PloyStotion 3 Sony intrcduced the first Ploystotiongome consolein the mid-1990s.It wqs very populqr qnd sold morc thon 100 million units.
Thenin 2000,SonyreleosedPloystotion2. This model hos olso beenvery populqr due to its excellentgraphicsqnd becouseit cqn plqy DVD5. Sonyhos releosedthe newestmodel in the series,Ploystqtion3. It is 35 times more powerful thon Ploystotion2. The controllen ore qlso much eqsierto usedue to speciolsensors. Sonysqysthqt ployinggomeson Plqystotion3 is like beingin o movie becousethe croDhicsqre soincredible.
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Circtethe best introductionfor the passage. SonyComputerEntertoinmentInc. is part of the SonyCorporation. It wos estoblishedin 1993 in Tokyo. SonyPlaystotion2 hos hqd q lot of competition from other consoleslike Microsoft Xbox qnd Nintendo GomeCube. The Sony Plqystotion3 gome consolehos been releosed.It is the lotestmodel in o populqr seriesthqt qlso includesPloystotion1 qnd 2. Ploystotion3 is much fosterthon Ploystotion2, ond it olso hqs o new contrcller ond incredible oroohics.
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Nintendoenjoyedsuccess with their Nintendo64 gome console,which wosreleosedirr1996. Nintendo'sWii gomeconsoleis now ovoiloble. One of the most populor Nintendo64 gomeswas Super Mario64. It olso hos o brqnd new controller. Comecubehod impressivegrophlcs. In 2001 Nintendoreleosedthe Gomecube. Wii ollowsployersto ploy mony of the Nintendogomesmode in the lost 20 yeors. It is the lotestconsolefrom Nintendo,which qlso modeNintendo64 qnd Gomecube.
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Product: The Advonced Come Console
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Product: The Homework Robot
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Sonic the Hedgehog I recentlygot o Ploystotion 3, qnd I am so hoppyl I hove been Dloyino L Sonicthe Hedgehog. Sonicis q grcot gqme. I like it becquseit is reolly fost qnd hos qmozing grophics.It qlso requiresq lot of skill and hqs o very interestingstory. Finollt I like the foct thqt I cqn ploy three different hedgehogchorocte$-Sonic, Shodowond Silver.
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Product: The Fll/inq Bike
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Writing to explainsomething Sometimesyoumayneedto write an emailor a letter to explainsomething.For example, youmayneedto explainwhyyoucannotdo somethingor go somewhere.Makesureto give reasonsto supportyour explanation.
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Comnletethe student'semailto her soccercoach. I qm sorry to inform you thot I will not be able to attend your soccercomp next week. I hopeI will be qbleto qttendthe next one. / He told me thqt I wosill qnd should stoy ot home. / He olso soid thqt I will needto rest for qt leqst q week.
DeorCoachSimpson, (1)
I om very ill, ond I needto stqy ot home ond rest. I becomesick q few doysogo, ond I went to the doctoryesterdqy,(2) (3)
As o result I will not be oble to come to your soccercqmp. (4)
I qm still lookingforwordto improving my soccerskills. Yourssincerel, Penny
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Followthe stepsto write a letter to your teacher.Explainthat you cannot attendschoolnext week becauseyou are goingon a family trip. Brcinsform.' Bruinstorm ideqs for your letter on a sepqrqtepieceof poper. Thlnk of some detoils for your explanqtion. Planj Useyour ideosto moke q writing plqn. wlite on introduction stoting your reoson, detoils for o body pqrogrqph explqining it fufther qnd q conclusionsoying whot you hope mqy hqppen.
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From:
[email protected] Subject: Party Hil It's my birthdaynextSaturday, and l'll be havinga bigpartyat my house. The partywill startat 2 p.m.andwill finishaboutI p.m.We'regoingto watchmovies,playgamesandeat pizza,so it shouldbe a lot of fun. I hopeyou canmakeit. James
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would you preferto go to schoolor to your answers. learnat home?Discuss
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lFJqlnilesah,ofi)ll {rnq Thisweek,mostchildren wentbackto Howevettherearethousands school. of children whodid not.Instead, theywillstudy at home.Thisiscalledhomeschooling. Homeschooling isactually olderthanregular Inthepast,children learned at home school. because schools did notexist.Evenafterschools appeared in thecity,therewerefewschools in the country.Asa result,manychildrenstillhadto studyat home.Somefamouspeople werehomeschooled, including Abraham Lincoln Edison. andThomas Formuchofthe 1900s, homeschooling wasrare.However, in the 1970s, manyparents startedhomeschooling theirchildren.Theychoseto do thisfor severalreasons. Some parentsthoughtthe localschoolswerebad,sotheydecidedto teachtheirchildren themselves. Otherswantedtheirchildren to learnaboutreligion, whichwasnottaught at school. Thesedays,homeschooling isverypopularin Westerncountries. TheUnitedKingdomhas about50,000homeschooled children,andCanadahasaround60,000. TheUnitedStates hasthe highestnumbetwithasmanyas1.1millionhomeschooled children. Considering thesenumbers, homeschooling islikelyto remainpopularforyearsto come.
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Background .
Namethe topic
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Givebackgroundinfonmation. and/or describethe hlstory of the topic
Conclusion Finishwith current information6nd a prediction aboutthefuture
comntetettre passage. Thesenew computers will be very helpfulfor students./ Theschooldid hovesome computers beforebut not enoughfor everystudentto use. / Our schoolrccentlygot brondnew computels./ Furthermore, only o few computemcouldconnectto the Intemet.
New Computers (1)
Now, everyclqssrcomhqs three computersond there qre more computerlobsoroundthe school. (2)
Mony of thesecompute$ did not work well. (3)
Fortunqtelt the new compute$ oll hqve on Internet connection.Also, there ore now enough compute$ for every student to use. {4)
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rollow the stepsto w]ite an essayabout a new rule at your schoolbanning cell phones. Broinsform,' Bminstorm ideosfor your essqyon o sepqrqtepieceof poper' fhink obout whqt your schoolis like ond how the new rule will chonge it. Pian:Useyour ideosto moke q wdting plon. Write qn interestingintroduction, body pqrqgrqphsgiving bockground informotion, ond q conclusionproviding cunent informqtion ond o prcdiction qbout the futurc.
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Bodyparagraph2 (background):
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