How to write an English Essay Part 1
after studying English for years do you
still find it difficult to write an
essay in English do you ask yourself how
do I begin
what should I include how do I end if
you have ever asked yourself these or
any other questions
don’t worry in this lesson I will teach
you part 1 of how to write a proper
English essay welcome to speak English
with Tiffany I am teacher Tiffany and
today we are going to learn part one of
the third secret in speaking English
this secret will improve your ability to
write logically in English are you ready
well then let’s jump right in as an
English Learner you spend hours in order
to improve your speaking skills however
there are many times when you have to
use your English to write an essay but
in order to write a proper essay in
English you must first know the general
setup of an English essay an English
essay can be separated into five
different parts the intro or
introduction support number one support
number two support number three and the
conclusion today we will look at the
first part the introduction the
introduction is the first part of your
essay and in some ways the most
important it is at this point that you
get the attention of the reader it can
be broken up into three smaller parts
the attention grabber your opinion or
hypothesis and the intro to your three
points the attention grabber is the very
first part of your essay it is the
portion of your essay that literally
gets the attention of the person reading
your words there are three different
types of attention grabbers that can be
used when writing an essay in English
the first one is an interesting question
the goal of this attention grabber is to
make the reader think deeply about a
specific topic or situation after
writing the question you will then give
a short comment on the topic or
situation this will help the reader
prepare to read your essay now the
second one is an interesting fact the
goal of this attention grabber is to
present information to the reader that
will cause them to be curious about your
essay you want to look for interesting
facts that connect to your opinion on
the topic of the essay these facts will
also make the reader have confidence in
your knowledge of the subject and
finally the third type of attention
grabber is story this is the most
effective attention grabber because
everyone likes a story it draws your
reader into your essay or in other words
it makes your essay come alive and seem
more realistic now after you have
successfully written your
attention-grabber the next thing is to
write your opinion or hypothesis your
opinion is stated simply and clearly at
the beginning and the details will be
given later on in the essay now finally
the last step for the introduction is to
write your three basic points you will
do this by writing the basic pieces of
information that support your point now
let’s take a look at an example essay
question and apply the steps we learned
today for writing a proper introduction
the question how can a person become
successful so for this question
our
first step is to that’s correct right
the attention-grabber I have chosen to
write an attention-grabber based on an
interesting fact according to Forbes
magazine Bill Gates is one of the most
successful people in the world in 2012
his net worth was approximately seventy
six point eight billion dollars he is
basically filthy rich but is success
simply based on the amount of money a
person makes now let’s move on to the
next step my opinion or hypothesis
remember this comes right after the
attention-grabber no I believe that
success depends on a person’s aim and
purpose in life not simply on the amount
of money they have in the bank
and finally my three points so in order
to become successful a person must do
three things first they must write down
their aim or purpose in life second they
must write down the reason why they want
to accomplish that purpose and third
they must write down what the results
will be if they accomplish that purpose
done all right amazing today you learned
part one of the third secret to speaking
English how to write an English essay
you looked at the three parts of the
introduction of an essay the first part
was attention grabber
the second part was your opinion or
hypothesis and the third part was three
points in the next lesson we will go
over how to properly write the
supporting information in the next step
of our English essay now try to write
your own
introduction to an essay question at
least one time today you can do it you
can speak English I hope this video
helped to give you more confidence in
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