Category: Writing

Writing an essay in English

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When you write an essay in English you need to know about its structure:
-it needs to be balanced
-you need to focus on the points you want to cover, usually you can focus on different points to present your ideas

– you need to write by using paragraphs

-you need to provide examples and ideas for what you are writing about

– think of the essay as a  well-planned structure : you will need an introduction, a  development with  some ideas or different ideas  and a conclusion

TIPS FOR BETTER WRITING

  • Brainstorm your ideas
  • Write down your first draft of what you would like to write about
  • Check vocabulary and the spelling of words, language structures and sentences
  • Think about the register of your writing ( who is going to read it?)
  • Re-write your essay a second time

 

Your  homework to be posted online is the one you will find here:

https://www.examenglish.com/FCE/Cambridge_First_writing_part1.htm

Resources online

How to Write an Essay

https://www.fceexamtips.com/writing/

https://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_writing.html

 

Do you like reading? What kind of books do you like? Why?

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Reading books can help you learn new words in English and also learn about new worlds.  Maybe you only like  reading short books or books for teenagers.

In English we use a variety of  words which can help us in defining  them

Check online:

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/thesaurus-category/british/describing-books-and-relating-to-books

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/book_1

What kind of books are mentioned online in the links provided above?

Think about the types of books you can  find in your  school library or in the local library in your town: here you can find a short list

  • fiction
  • non-fiction
  • science fiction books
  • novels
  • short  stories
  • gothic novels
  • romance
  • detective stories

Work online and check these  links by using the dictionary online  http://www.snappywords.com/

http://www.snappywords.com/?lookup=novel

http://www.snappywords.com/?lookup=short+story

Work online and find more words in English that are related to books and reading.

Homework for the students

Write some notes about what you have learnt and be ready to report about them in class.

October has begun

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In these images you can see a lot things related to Autumn. Usually  October  marks the beginning of  colder and rainy days.

Which words and which meanings  do you associate to October?

Draw a  spidergram with the events that come to your mind and also  the colours of  Autumn.

Autumn

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Which images do you associate to Autumn?   Do you know the American  word for  Autumn?  It’s Fall: why?

Now look at this painting : what does it present? How do you feel? Does this painting have any message for us?

Try to describe what the painter focussed on  in this  painting: how do you perceive nature?  What colours have been chosen? Why?

"Autumn, 1990", Andrei Kushnir
Attribution :By Oles333 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Choose one of these  paintings and write  a  short description of it in English: use about 200-300 words.

Wywiórski Park in autumn

Michał Gorstkin-Wywiórski [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

 

Van Gogh - Pappelallee im Herbst

Vincent van Gogh [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AVan_Gogh_-_Pappelallee_im_Herbst.jpeg

 

Monet - Herbst in Argentueil

Claude Monet [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Back to school…………………… are you looking forward to the long summer days ?

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Homework

Write a short text about you and how you spent your summer: remember you will have to use the  simple past tense. Use sentence connectors like  when, while, then, in the end.  If you are making a list of what activities you did you can also use  at first, secondly, thirdly  and  in the end.   Your text should  have at least 150 words.

Searching and finding information online about a place or a person. Making a presentation by using an image and writing a text in English

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Today we can rely on many tools online that can help us  make presentations.
Thinglink is very simple to use. You need to have an account- you need to register and  then you can create images with links to videos, pictures or texts online.
Here is a Thinglink about  New York: do you like it ?https://www.thinglink.com/scene/662725525973762049


Homework and activity based on a topic and a picture for using English

1- First  check it and try to understand how you could use it for your presentations

2- Think about a place you like and  search for information about it ( images, data): write a short text about it in English and choose  a picture that you like to add to your  text.