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Identifying Main Ideas UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGÓGICA EXPERIMENTAL LIBERTADOR INSTITUTO PEDAGÓGICO DE CARACAS DEPARTAMENTO DE IDIOMAS MODERNOS PROGRAMA DE INGLÉS CÁTEDRA DE IDIOMA LECTURA Y ESCRITURA I Prof. Alexis Maizo March, 2010
What is a Main Idea? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Topic Vs. Topic sentence ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Is a main idea always explicit? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Now let’s practice! ,[object Object],[object Object],Identify the main ideas in the following passages:
Now let’s practice! ,[object Object],[object Object],Identify the main ideas in the following passages:
[object Object]
[object Object]
[object Object],[object Object]
[object Object],[object Object]
[object Object],(All of the passages were taken form: http://www.daltonstate.edu/faculty/mnielsen/main_idea_practice_2.htm)
[object Object],(All of the passages were taken form: http://www.daltonstate.edu/faculty/mnielsen/main_idea_practice_2.htm)
Conclusions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Identifying Main Ideas in Texts

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