Writing Assignment_arley Gracia

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNADInstituto Virtual de Lenguas - INVILPrograma: Programa Nacional de inglésCurso: Inglés IICampo de formación: Componente Básico Común.Tipo de curso: teórico.Créditos: Dos (2).

“ACTIVITY 3 WRITING ASSIGNMENT”

PRESENTED BY:

Arley Garcia Caicedo

COD. 1112226303

TUTOR:

H OLMES AUGUSTO GARCIA

GRUPO:

90021_195

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA (UNAD)

ESCUELA DE CIENCIAS BASICAS, TECNOLOGIA E INGENIERIA

INGENIERIA INDUSTRIAL

CEAD PALMIRA

SEPTIEMBRE 2015

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Part one

Answer the questions according with the picture.

1. Who comes around the corner?

R // come two thieves disguised as a clown.

2. What is your secret?

R // they stole a pastry

3. What are you wearing ?

R // carry water guns


1. Why did Peter lose his temper with Joanna?

R// because she asked for a divorce.

2. Where did he go after he stormed out?

R// He ran to the street

3. What happened to him when he got there?

R// A car hit him


1. What building can you see Rose leaving?

R// the building is just left his apartment.

2. What is she wearing?

R// brown dress, a blue jacket, black stockings, brown boots with a flowered scarf and wallet.

3. Where is she going?

R// It goes in two days.


1. Where did the accident happen?

R // at an airport

2. Who was injured?

R // all escaped anyone

3. Who helped?

R // volunteer fire department


1. Who closes the window?

R // children’s grandfather

2. Why?

R // because this cold day.

3. How old are they?

R // they are 4 years old.


Part Two

Complete the sentence

To begin simply answer the following questions and see what happens. The answers to the questions are entirely up to you. There is no right or wrong – only ideas. Once an idea appeals to you, follow it through. You will be pleasantly surprised at how quickly a story will emerge from the answers you give.

R//

Jenny slammed the door in John’s face because this very angry with the.

The plane crashed because there were technical flaws in the engine.

Paul read his wife’s diary and discovered that he was cheating.

The small girl ran away from of school. Travis had never seen a cat look so scared before. It was time for prepare dinner.

Her arms ached but she couldn’t stop swimming because they are afraid of drowning.

Ben climbed the tree and under many apples for your friends.

Story without a middle

There are three main parts to a story:

The BEGINNING says where and when a story happens and who the people or characters are.

The MIDDLE tells what happens to these people.

The CONCLUSION tells how the story ends.

Read the story below. It has a beginning and a conclusion but no middle.


SALLY'S PROBLEM

Sally sat at the back of the classroom, looking out of the window. She didn't hear what the teacher said because she was thinking about her big problem.

Sally jumped up and ran to the phone. She just knew everything was going to be alright again.

Now write two ideas what Sally's problem could be:

1. Sally You have Problems with your family.

2. Sally has problems with her boyfriend.

Choose the idea you like best, and write about it. Write the story again putting your middle between the beginning and the end of the story of Sally's problem.

Sally work and study at same time, your schedule is so demanding that you do not have much time to devote to his family and partner, this has caused him many problems with her boyfriend, as repeatedly failed to comply with its quotations constantly leaving it divorce planted in addition to the parent. That has left so overwhelmed he could not concentrate in class, the teacher scolded leaving you additional task. Sally after class tired and upset, decided to go straight home. to get to his room I analyze what happened in the week, remembering something he told his aunt long ago that life is short ago and have to enjoy understood that should not waste time lamenting what happened, if not the opposite rise again and continue, then their sentences were reduced, with a new courage to face the problems, I received a call from her boyfriend, and she knew that everything would be fine.


Part Three

Book review

A book report gives the author's name, the book title, and says what the book is about.

Read this book report by one of last year's students.

TITLE: Jaws

AUTHOR: Robert Benchley

TYPE OF BOOK: Adventure

CONTENT: It's about a big shark which eats people when they are swimming.

OPINION: I liked the story. It was exciting and a bit frightening. I've seen the film - that was good too.

Answer these questions about the book report.

1. What is the book about?

R// the book is jaws.

2. Who wrote it?

R// the author is Robert Benchley

3. What did the student think about the book?

R// it's a good movie, exciting and a little scary

4. Was it a love story?

R// not the film gender is horror and suspense.


Now read this book review by another student.

“I didn't like the story about the ship; it was boring and the pictures in it weren't very good. J.R Smith wrote "The Sinking of the Titanic" because his father was killed when the ship hit an iceberg. More than 1,000 people died when the ship sank. I don't like True Life stories - I prefer adventures."

The book review is a bit mixed up. Rewrite the information under the headings below.

TITLE: The Sinking of the Titanic

AUTHOR: JR Smith.

TYPE OF STORY: drama and catastrophe.

CONTENT: story based on a true acts about the sinking of the Titanic where more than 1000 people died.

OPINION: I didn't like the story about the ship; it was boring and the pictures in it weren't very good. I don't like True Life stories - I prefer adventures."

No-gap Paragraph

The person typing the following text was too lazy to type capital letters or make spaces. Try to read it.

A man was walking along a bus y shopping street in Manchester, when suddenly he was stopped by two police officers. You had better come with us sir, we have reason to believe you were in volved in the bank, robbery that took place in London 4 days ago; ¡¡ But it couldn't have been me!! said the man, pulling nervously a this long black hair; I’ve just got back from a 2 week holiday in France, he said and took a photo out of his wallet look here I am standing under the Eiffel tower one. Of the police officers looked care full y at the photograph and said yes you are right, but this picture could not have been taken 4 days ago I think you'd better come with us, but how did you know? Protested the man, well replied the policeman the photos how you with short hair it couldn't possibly have grown so long in just 4 days.


Part Four

Advertisements

Advertisements are written to try and make us buy something. The words in an advertisement give us a very clear idea of the product, and really make us want to have it. Look at this example of an advertisement for ice cream:

"Cool, delicious Strawberry Surprise. What could be nicer on a hot summer's day?"


Imagine that you are an advertiser who is trying to get people to try a new car. Type ten words that can be used to describe cars (you can use your dictionary!):

WORDS

1. New 6. Engine

2. Comfort 7. Buy

3. Car 8. Operators

4. Technology 9.Sunglasses

5. Life 10. Free

Using some of your words from above and write an advert for a car in the space below.

R// Get it now!

This new car allows you to travel with the comfort you deserve , because it has the GT technology ensures long life to its 8 cylinder engine that will take you anywhere, buy it ... our operators are waiting , call now and receive free sunglasses that combine with your car.


Making sentences:

Some of the words in these sentences have been put in the wrong place. Can you fix them? Write the words in the right order. The first sentence has been done for you.

(Hint: remember that sentences start with capital letters and end with full stops!)

Example: work your days are and Monday, Wednesday Thursday.

Your work days are Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Are work of hours yours nine o’clock to five o’clock. _work_ __hours_ of __yours_ _are__ nine o`clock to five o`clock.

Get you lunch an hour for.

__lunch_ get an hour for _you_.

paid weekly You are.

_you__ are paid _weekly_.

To holiday you pay are entitled.

__you_ are entitled to _holiday _pay_.

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Nicknames for New York

Use the words in the box to complete the text below. Write the missing words in the space.

describe biggest choose name cities nicknames

newspaper recorded city community visitors popular

__ newspaper _ are used to describe people, places or things. Many American _____ cities _____ _ have nicknames. They can help create identities, build unity and help people feel a sense of pride in their __ community _.

Some years ago, marketing and advertising experts were asked to __ choose__ the best nickname for an American ___ cities __. The winner was the nation’s biggest city, New York. The nickname they chose was “The Big Apple”.

Where did the nickname “Big Apple” originally come from? In the nineteen seventies, New York suffered from image problems. The number of __ visitors _, was falling. A campaign was launched to give the city a new image and a new nickname. The New York board chose the nickname “The Big Apple”

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journalist for a New York ___ recorded __ had used the name “The Big Apple” to __ nicknames _ New York in the nineteen twenties.

The Big Apple was also the __biggest _ of a night club in the Harlem area of New York City in the nineteen thirties, as well as the name of a __ popular _ dance and hit song around that time.

“The Big Apple” is not the only nickname for America’s _describe _ city. Almost one hundred nicknames that describe New York have been __ name _ . Some of the best known nicknames for New York are “The Capital of the World”, “Empire City”, “Gotham”, “The City So Nice They Named it Twice” and “The City That Never Sleeps.”

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ACROSS

She wears black and rides a broom.

4. Spirit that says “Boo!”

7. Small animals that are black and fly on Halloween.

8. Month Halloween is in

10. Cut this to make a jack-o-lantern

12. Popular Halloween color.

13. Filled with ghosts.

DOWN

2. “Trick or __________.”

3. Special outfit worn on Halloween.

5. Connected bones.

6. Holiday on October 31st.

9. Light this and put it inside a jack-o-lantern.

11. Children eat this sweet treat on Halloween.

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ACROSS

1. Witch.

4. Ghost.

7. Bats.

8. October.

10. Pumpkin.

12. Orange.

DOWN

2. Treat

3. Costume.

5. Skeleton.

6. Halloween.

9. Candle.

11. Candy

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