Exercise 4: Working with another student, decide which topic is the best. Make a check after that topic. Write “too specific” or “too general” after the other topics.
1. Elephants are the largest land animals in the world. Whales are the largest sea animals. There two huge animals may , in fact, be related. Biologists now believe that the ancestors of elephants once lived in the sea. There is plenty of evidence to support this idea. For example, the shape of an elephant’s head is similar to a whale’s. Also, elephants are excellent swimmers. Some have chosen to swim for food to islands up to 300 miles from shore, lire the whale, the elephant, too, uses sounds to show anger or for other kinds of communication. Finally, in certain ways, female elephants behave much like female whales. When an elephant or a whale baby is born, a female friend stays nearby to help the mother.
a. How elephants are good swimmers
b. The largest animals in the world
c. How elephants and whales are alike
2. Do you have an e-mail (electronic mail) address? Millions of people around the world have e-mail addresses. With e-mail, you can “talk” with people from Montevideo to Kyoto. It does not cost very much, and it is fast. E-mail helps many people with their work. Other people use e-mail for fun. They talk with their family, or they “meet” people with the same interests.
a. Telephone communication
b. How e-mail helps at work
c. How people use e-mail
3. The Internet is not only e-mail. People use the Internet in other ways, too. You can use the Internet to find something in a library. The library can be in any country in the world. Your computer “talks” to the computer at the lirary. Then you can ask to read books or newspapers at the library. You can also ask the library to send information. The information travels by the Internet to your computer. Then you can use it whenever you want.
a. Using the Internet for e-mail
b. Using the library for information
c. Using the library on the Internet
Exercise 4: Working with another student, decide which topic is the best. Make a check after that topic. Write “too specific” or “too general” after the other topics.
1. Elephants are the largest land animals in the world. Whales are the largest sea animals. There two huge animals may , in fact, be related. Biologists now believe that the ancestors of elephants once lived in the sea. There is plenty of evidence to support this idea. For example, the shape of an elephant’s head is similar to a whale’s. Also, elephants are excellent swimmers. Some have chosen to swim for food to islands up to 300 miles from shore, lire the whale, the elephant, too, uses sounds to show anger or for other kinds of communication. Finally, in certain ways, female elephants behave much like female whales. When an elephant or a whale baby is born, a female friend stays nearby to help the mother.
a. How elephants are good swimmers
b. The largest animals in the world
c. How elephants and whales are alike
2. Do you have an e-mail (electronic mail) address? Millions of people around the world have e-mail addresses. With e-mail, you can “talk” with people from Montevideo to Kyoto. It does not cost very much, and it is fast. E-mail helps many people with their work. Other people use e-mail for fun. They talk with their family, or they “meet” people with the same interests.
a. Telephone communication
b. How e-mail helps at work
c. How people use e-mail
3. The Internet is not only e-mail. People use the Internet in other ways, too. You can use the Internet to find something in a library. The library can be in any country in the world. Your computer “talks” to the computer at the lirary. Then you can ask to read books or newspapers at the library. You can also ask the library to send information. The information travels by the Internet to your computer. Then you can use it whenever you want.
a. Using the Internet for e-mail
b. Using the library for information
c. Using the library on the Internet
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