I Write Yes' or No' in the boxes. 1. The woodcutter was a rich man.
2. He went to cut wood in the village.
3. The river was very deep.
4. He had borrowed the axe-head.
5. Elisha dived into the water,

1 . one is false, 2. is true, 3. is true,

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.