Practice basic paragraph writing skills

Task 1 - Writing topic sentences
Write one topic sentece for each of the following topics:

• Your hometown
• A place you would like to travel to
• Education
• Computer games
• Family
• Your favorite sport

Task 2 - Writing developing sentences
Choose two of the topic sentences you made above and extend them with a supporting sentence.

Task 3 - Writing topic sentences
Create a topic sentence to each of the developing sentences below:

• The highest mountain in Norway is Galdhøpiggen.
• The biggest city is Oslo, with approximately 605 000 inhabitants, and the smallest is Stavanger with approximately 126 000 inhabitants.
• It can be liquid, but water can also appear as solid ice or as gas/steam.

Task 4 - Writing deveoping sentences
Create a developing sentence to each of the topic sentences below:

• The education system in Britain is somewhat different from the Norwegian system.
• The audience expected a very tight and eventful match between India and Pakistan in the cricket world championships yesterday.