PDF handout of the 32 Powerpoints - Mark Fullmer

6/5/2012Answer: The overall statement the passage is being made.It is expressed as a sentence, and needs a subject ANDPossible Main Ideas:verb.EXAMPLE : Consumers concerned about the hazards or noisecan reduce noise pollution in many ways. They can purchasenoisy products such as garbage disposals and lawn mowers w/“Consumers reduced noisy levels. can They reduce can also use noise sound-absorbing pollution.”materials in their home. Carpeting can be installed instead ofhard flooring, & cork & fabric can be used in rooms that tendto be noisy. Also, people can become less noisy themselves.They can learn to avoid shouting, to close doors w/oslamming them, & to play radios, TV sets, & stereos atmoderate level.“There are many ways to be less noisy.” They provide information to clarify, prove, orexplain the main idea. These detailsdemonstrate the validity of the main idea.They often list parts, aspects, steps, orexamples of the main idea. Or sometimesthey may list the causes of it, effects from it,or ways in which it shows itself to be true. They are reasons, facts, examples, steps orother kinds of evidence that support the mainidea.EXAMPLE : Consumers concerned about the hazards or noisecan reduce noise pollution in many ways. They can purchasenoisy products such as garbage disposals and lawn mowers w/reduced noisy levels. They can also use sound-absorbingmaterials in their home. Carpeting can be installed instead ofhard flooring, & cork & fabric can be used in rooms that tendto be noisy. Also, people can become less noisy themselves.They can learn to avoid shouting, to close doors w/oslamming them, & to play radios, TV sets, & stereos atmoderate level.EXAMPLE : Consumers concerned about the hazards or noisecan reduce noise pollution in many ways. They can purchasenoisy products such as garbage disposals and lawn mowers w/reduced noisy levels. They can also use sound-absorbingmaterials in their home. Carpeting can be installed instead ofhard flooring, & cork & fabric can be used in rooms that tendto be noisy. Also, people can become less noisy themselves.They can learn to avoid shouting, to close doors w/oslamming them, & to play radios, TV sets, & stereos atmoderate level.Read the following passage, then answer thequestions.Jollibee Foods Corp. grew its net profit last year by 16 percentto P3.09 billion as store expansion and improved marginssustained a double-digit rise in revenues. For the fourth quarteralone, net income attributable to equity holders of parentcompany surged 16.2 percent to P944 million from a year ago.Full-year revenues jumped 11.2 percent to P53.35 billion whilesystemwide retail sales—which measure all sales to consumerboth from company-owned and franchised stores went up 10.2percent to P70.25 billion. The acquisition of fast-growinggrilled chicken restaurant chain Mang Inasal late last yearcontributed 5 percentage points to worldwide sales growth. Asof December, JFC had 1,921 stores in the Philippines. Of thelocal stores, the flagship Jollibee brand has 717, Chinesefastfood chain Chowking has 400, pizza chain Greenwich has223, bakery Red Ribbon has 221. Mang Inasal added 345 storesto the network. It also has 395 stores overseas: Yonghe King inChina with 200 stores; Jollibee with 67 mainly in the UnitedStates, Vietnam, and Brunei; Red Ribbon with 38, all in the US;Chowking with 38 mostly in the US and Dubai, and HongZhuang Yuan with 52 stores.2