The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.1 - Giant leaps for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education
Question
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Complete statements 1-3 using the labels from the key.
Look at the essay in Exercise 8 again. Use the labels in 10A (linking words, topic sentence, etc.) to label the first paragraph of the essay.
Answer
b)
topic sentence
supporting sentences
linking words
c)
Topic sentence → Once, China led the world in technology.
Supporting sentence 1 → Centuries before Europe, they had printing and gunpowder.
Supporting sentence 2 → They also had the compass, which meant they could navigate without relying on the position of the Moon.
Supporting sentence 3 → Furthermore, they were brilliant ship builders.