This list of countries by rail transport network size based on International Union of Railways data ranks countries by length of rail lines worked at end of year updated with other reliable sources. These figures also include urban/suburban mass-transport systems; as well as lines which are not used for passenger services. 1 List.
Review with students what a topic sen-. tence is. (The topic sentence is the sentence. containing the main idea of a paragraph-. often, but not always, the first sentence in. the paragraph.) Put a couple of good models. from the daily newspaper on the overhead-.
Activity 3 Matching supporting and topic entences. Read the two topic sentences below. Then read the list of supporting sentences. Match each supporting. sentence with the corresponding topic sentence by writing the correct topic sentence number on the. line beside the supporting sentences. Notice that each sentence is labeled in parentheses with the kind. of supporting sentence that it is.