EF3/4 Grabbers

Grabbers - a great way to begin a paragraph, gets the reader's attention, makes them want to read your paragraph

Grabber
Topic sentence
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Concluding sentence
  

1. General to specific statement
2. Fact or statistic
3. Anecdote
4. Historical
5. Question?
6. Adage, idiom, expression
7. Famous quotation from a famous person

What makes you happiest in life?



Grabber.
Topic sentence:
The things that makes me happiest in my life is spending time with my family.

Grabber
Topic sentence

Ways to write grabbers

1. General to specific statement- funnel

     People find happiness in many different ways, but for me I find happiness at home. The thing that makes me happiest in my life is spending time with my family.

       You don't have to be happy all the time, but you must have some way to have happiness in your life. The thing that make me happiest in my life is spending time with my family.

2. Fact or statistic -80%, 4/5, almost half

    In our world today, very few people say that they are truly happy. The thing that makes me happiest in my life is spending time with my family.

     Everybody has a desire to be happy in their life. The things that makes me happiest in my life is spending time with my family.


3. Anecdote - short personal story, no long boring stories

     I was very unhappy when I was single. Then I got married and had three kids. Now, the thing that makes me happiest in my life is spending time with my family.


4. Historical - information from history

      As everybody knows, throughout history all the way back tens of thousands of years, the family unit has always been the centre of people's safety and success. The thing that makes me happiest in my life is spending time with my family.

5. Question?

      Do you have a family? Do you like your family? The thing that makes me happiest in my life is spending time with my family.

What makes you happy? The thing that makes me happiest in my life is spending time with my family.

6. Adage, idiom, expression
     
     In Mandarin, we say "Everything in your life comes from family."

     In English, we have an expression, "Home is where the heart is."

     In English, we say "East or west, home is best." The things that make me happiest in my life is spending time with my family.


7. Famous quotation from a famous person

     George Burns said, “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” I disagree with him. The thing that make me happiest in my life is spending time with my family.