Chapter 6: Process Paragraphs

Questions on the model:

1. Topic sentence: Building a campfire that you can light with one match is
simple if you follow these easy steps. (Easy Steps)
2. There are 6 steps in a paragraph.
3. It restates the topic sentence in different words.
Practice 1: Topic Sentences for Process Paragraphs
1. There are 4 steps to register for classes at your school.
2. Meeting people in a new place in a confident by following these four
techniques.
3. You will get a job in your dream if you follow these easy steps.
4. There are seven best practices to preparing for a job interviews.
5. Living on a tight budget if you can control your daily payments with these easy
tips.
6. Making a pizza is easy by following this procedure.
7. You can make a nice airplane from paper by following these instructions.
8. Changing your oil car is easy with these three simple tips.
Clause is a group of words that contains at least one subject and one verb.
Example: Anna left the party early. … because she was tired.
Independent clauses: Simple Sentence
Anna left the party early.
Hold the cat’s mouth closed.
Dependent clauses:
… because she was tired.
… while you count to ten

Complex Sentences:
A complex sentence is a combination of one independent clause and one (or
more) dependent clause(s).
Anna left the party early because she was tired.
Hold the cat’s mouth closed while you count to ten.
Comma Rule
Because she was tired, Anna left the party early.
Anna left the party early because she was tired.
Subordinators
Time Subordinators
After: He goes to school after her finishes work.
As: Several overcrowded buses passed as we were waiting.
As soon as: She felt better as soon as she took the medicine.
Before: Before you apply to college, you have to take an entrance exam.
Since: It has been a year since I left home.

Until: We can’t leave the room until everyone has finished the test.
When: When you start college, you sometimes have to take a placement test.
Whenever: Whenever I don’t sleep well, I feel sick the next day.
While: Several overcrowded buses passed while they were waiting.
Reason Subordinators
Because: Jack excels at sports because he trains hard.
Since: Since she works out daily, Jill is in great condition.
As: As they want to compete in a marathon, they run every day.
Place Subordinators
Where: I can never remember where I put my house keys.
Wherever: A baby animal follows its mother wherever she goes.
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In a book about animal morality, the author tells the following story.
1. During World War II, a British soldier got caught in a tree after he had
parachuted into the jungles of Sumatra, Indonesia.
2. A wild monkey brought him bananas and other fruit every day while he hung
helplessly in the trees.
3. The monkey continued to bring him fruit because it seemed to understand
the problem and want to help.
4. The soldier finally succeeded in freeing himself after twelve days had passed.
5. However, he still had a problem as he had no way to contact his comrades.
D. Write six complex sentences of your own.
1. I got a scholarship from TGI because I studied so hard.
2. Covid-19 is spreading in Cambodia as people do not how to protect
themselves from Covid-19.
3. My university cannot reopen right now since the government does not allow.
4. Wherever you go, I will be with you forever.
5. Whenever the class starts, he is always make it become noisy place.
6. As soon as you arrived, I would cook dinner for you already.
Try It Out!
How Much Can Animals Think and Feel?
1. Scientists are discovering that animals can think and communicate their
thoughts.
2. Gorillas and Chimpanzees are close relatives of humans, so scientists have
worked with them to study animal intelligence.
3. A young chimpanzee named Kanzi knows as much grammar as a two-and-a-
half-year-old child, and a gorilla named Koko uses sign language to
communicate with her trainer.
4. Most people believe that parrots can only imitate, but they don’t understand
what they are saying.
5. However, a parrot named Alex talks, and he seems to understand what he is
saying.
6. He can answer questions about the color, shape, and size of the toy, and he
can tell what it is made of.
7. Furthermore, Alex can also feel and communicate his feelings.
8. One day, when Alex made several mistakes in answering a question, he
apologized and turned away.
9. This happened another time, when Alex became sick, and his trainer had to
leave him overnight in an animal hospital.
10. Alex didn’t want to stay there alone because the hospital was a strange place.
11. The trainer was going out the door, then Alex cried out, “Come here, I love
you. I’m sorry. Wanna go back.”
12. Dolphins also show emotion, and they do this during training.
13. When they are correct, they cry excitedly and race back to their trainer.
14. When they are wrong, they look sad and act depressed.
15. These few examples show that even animals with small brains are smart and
they also have feelings.
Writing Assignment: How to Get a Job of Your Dream
Prewrite:
1. Define your dream job: learn more deeply and do some research about the
requirement to get that job.
2. Learn the skill: Go to university that provide education on that subject of your
dream job.
3. Do your best to keep update with your skill and pre-requirement skill that you could
know more to make yourself more attractive.
4. Make more connection on your field: Try to make new friends and try build your
network in order to easy find your job.
5. Start applying in that job: Applying every companies that it has your dream job, do
not be upset when you do not get the chance. Keep on applying until you got it.
Rough Draft:
Getting a dream job is one of the biggest achievement in everyone’s lives. Some people
get it by the chances while some people get it by hard-working. No matter what kind of
dream job in your life, there is always possible, if you working hard enough and you are
fighting to get it. First, you must define your dream job. What kind of job that you are
interested? For instance, some people want to get a job that brings them a lot of money, and
others want to help people as much as they could without talking about the money. Then
you should do more research about your dream job, is it has in your country? Or is it not yet
anyone created? Next steps, you start finding school or university that teach these skills of
your dream job and start finding out what is the famous university of that subject and how
much does it cost to study there? Later, when you go to the university, you must study hard
and make sure that your skill is up to date. At the third year or fourth year of your university,
you should start making some networks by joining and finding people that are in your fields
and start asking them for advices. Moreover, you could try to keep in touch with them in
order to get information or any chances to intern or work with them. Finally, after you
graduate, it is the time that you start applying for job. As you already have some networks,
you could contact them for available place that you can get from them, but if you do not get
that chance it is simple. However, you still have other chances to get your dream job. Your
task is keep on applying to different kind of company until you get your jobs. Remember,
you should not get upset or discourage on the rejection while you are applying for that
position because everyone has faced the same situations when they first apply for their
dream jobs. As soon as you keep on applying for that job, so you will get the chance to get
your dream job as well. All in all, planning and commitment are the keys that would bring
you your dream jobs as soon as you work hard enough for it.

Alternative Writing Assignment: How to Choose a Marriage Partner.

Step 1:

1. Learn about your character and your behavior: What kind of people are you, learn
about other people relationship.
2. Find your partner: Keep in touch and learn from each other both good and bad sides.
3. Look the environment both families: Is that your family like her or not?
4. Prepare some money: Learn how to be good partner, wife or husband and how to
build up the good family.
5. Learn to control yourself and be responsible of what you have done: It is because of
when you a partner, and you will to take more responsible for them.

Step 2: Rough Draft:

Finding a partner is one of the most important thing in our lives. In order to get a
good partner, we have to look up and meet different kinds of people. There are some tips
that we could consider before finding a married partner. First thing that we could consider
is to understand ourselves since we are ready to get married, or we do not prepare for it yet.
A healthy relationship composite of two people with the same personal life’s style and
behaviors, so we could understand each other more easily when we are having some
troubles. For instance, if we are a type of person that love to be formal, you should not find
a partner that are like to play a lot without considering about formal or informal places or
situations. The second step is to find the right partner. As we may have known already, most
people do not marry with their first love. On the other hand, they have been together for one
month, one year, or even five years, but they still end up broken that relationship since they
cannot understand each other well, or they cannot go through any problems that are
unexpected. To avoid this kind of problems, it is important that we should find and build the
relationship from scratch, and we should start learning from each other as well as sharing
some problems and try to find the solutions together. When we have learned and understood
each other more clearly then it is the right time that we should move to the next steps. The
third step is to consider about both families. Since we knew each other well, we should start
introduce our partners to our families and relatives. As some families are not going well with
some groups of people. Some families are considered on family background, so it would
create any troubles to our relationships as well. For example, some families do not want their
sons or daughters to be married with people from the poor family. However, if we are in that
situations, we should end up that relationship as quickly as possible since our families are
also the big part of our lives. Furthermore, building a new family require a lot of money, so
we should consider finding and prepare money before and after we married as well for
spending on critical situations which it would arrive later. Then the last step is to learn how
we could deal with the problems by ourselves since we are the head of the family now.
Eventually, we have to take more responsible on what we have done since we have to take
care more people. In conclusion, finding a married partner is the processes of complex steps
that we should consider in order to get a partner that we could live together with the rest of
our lives.