6. Reading to identify the topic sentence of each paragraph

　　Skim the text and identify the topic sentence of each paragraph. You may find it either at the beginning, the middle or the end of the paragraph.

　　Key for reference:

　　1st paragraph: Our group are all going to visit the chimps in the forest.

　　2nd paragraph: Nobody before has fully understood chimp behavior.

　　3rd paragraph: For forty years Jane Goodall has been helping the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals.

　　7. Reading and transferring information

　　Read the text again to complete the table, which list what Jane does to protect African wildlife.

　　What does Jane do?

　　studied these animals for many years

　　spent many years observing and recording their daily activities

　　discovered that chimps hunt and eat meat

　　discovered how chimps communicate with each other

　　argued for chimps to be left in the wild

　　set up special places for chimps to live safely

　　working with animals in their own environment

　　Reading and understanding difficult sentences

　　As you have read the text times, you can surely tell which sentences are difficult to understand. Now put your questions concerning the difficult points to me.

　　Going over the text once again for the type of writing and summary of the text

　　Determining the type of writing will help you determine the author’s topic (subject), purpose (why he is writing), style (how he should write) and tone (his attitude toward his subject - supportive, condemning, objective, etc.)

　　Type of writing This is a piece of narrative writing.

　　Main idea of the passage

　　Being a protector of African wildlife Jane Goodall works to understand chimps and protect them.

　　Topic sentence of 1st paragraph Our group are all going to visit the chimps in the forest.　　Topic sentence of 2nd paragraph Jane spent many years observing and recording their daily activities.

　　Topic sentence of 3rd paragraph For forty years Jane Goodall has been helping the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals.

　　10. Reading the text to make a diagram