Parts of a paragraph

This video is about how to write a paper properly.

Writing: revising is rewriting

You have to write compositions and much more! Have a look at the following video and see if you can get some useful tips.

Commas and Capital Letters in Writing - Part 2

To continue with the series, here is the second video.



After watching the video, do the exercises in the following site: http://www.englishwithjennifer.com/punctuation_coordinating.conjunctions1.htm

Commas and capital letters (Part 1 of 3)

Very interesting video about how to use commas in complex sentences and compound sentences. You will also learn how to use capital letters in writing.
Useful and interesting. Don't miss it!

After watching it, practice on the following page:
http://www.englishwithjennifer.com/punctuation_sentence.punctuation.htm

Textbuilder

You will find HERE and interesting tool to practice writing.


It's worth trying.

Listen and Write

You will find in the following site a tool that enables you to listen and write what you hear.

What for?! Just to improve your comprehension and writing, that's all.

I've selected one of the exercises:

click here

Narrative Writing

This video gives instructions and helpful tips on how to complete the personal narrative essay assignment:

A Nano Ship to the Stars

Here is a short video by Michio Kaku. Listen to what he has to say and prepare a written summary in which you inform others about you have just watched.

Description

Look at the following photograph and try to describe it. Here are some questions that may help:

• Where are they?
• What are they doing?
• What are they talking about?
• Do they know one another?
• Are they celebrating anything? If so, what?
• Would you like to be there? Why? Why not?

Connectors

Writing letters

Here you will find a letter generator.

What does it mean?

It means you'll be able to write either a formal or an informal letter with some help from the site HERE

Don't forget to print it, bring it to class and share it with all of us.

Academic writing

Here's some homework for the following long holiday weekend:

Watch the following video. Once you've finished, test your understanding by doing the exercise below.

ACADEMIC WRITING » Quiz Question Maker

Tenses, Writing, Vocabulary

 GRAMMAR

PRESENT PERFECT

PRESENT PERFECT WITH FOR AND SINCE

PRESENT PERFECT WITH JUST, YET & ALREADY
PRESENT PERFECT: PUT THE WORDS IN ORDER PRESENT PERFECT OR PAST SIMPLE?
PREDICTIONS
WILL FOR PROMISES & OFFERS
WILL FOR PROMISES & OFFERS

FUTURE CONDITIONAL
FIRST CONDITIONAL
FIRST CONDITIONAL
PRESENT PASSIVE
PRESENT PASSIVE

PAST PASSIVE

RELATIVE WORDS: WHO, WHICH OR WHERE?
RELATIVE WORDS


WRITING:

REWRITING TEXTS (DIFFERENT TYPES OF TEXTS)

VOCABULARY:
TRANSPORT, JOBS, ETC.
FILMS
PERSONALITY & FEELINGS 

Punctuation

The power of punctuation is better explained by examples. Then you need some general rules. Above all, you need exercises!

The Purdue University website has a good menu to cover the punctuation you need to know.

If you find that too much, you may wish to do a quick quiz instead.

In the middle of your writing, you may need to consult a guide about specific punctuation marks. This one is quite comprehensive. This one is faster and has exercises.

A quick cheat-sheet to have near you while you write could be this Oxford site.

Last, but not least...

Beware the use of apostrophes and unnecessary quotation marks!

Sentence grammar

Write well-formed sentences. You'll find interesting guidelines and exercises on this BBC page:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic-group/sentence-grammar

Don't miss it!

Here's Mario's description. I didn't know you were an Independiente`s fan!! Do your colleagues know? Which are their favourite football clubs?

BUENOS AIRES

Here's Danilo's description of our city. Don't miss it!

The place where I live

Martín did his homework and passed his writing to an audio file!!

Enjoy it:









Feel free to share your opinions about it!

Mario's photograph

On my last holidays, I took this photo of my sister who was relaxing at
the ruins of Pfeffingen Castle on Basel-land.

I like this kind of ruins very much because I like the constructions of
all the nostalgic medieval places. I like it when the walls were made by
the original rocks and there no new reconstructions. I don't care if
some walls have fallen.

I'm thinking of printing this photo and paste on a wall of my house,
because it is a good synthesis of my trip: Touring Europe and visiting
my sister in January 2012.

Mario

Paola's photo

This photo was taken in 2010. Since that year, I've been working on a project that is called (As time passes by -El pasar de los días-), this project only pretends to register some days in my life, specials or not, but all moments that mean little pieces of my life.
This photo was taken one afternoon in my house with my kids while they were playing to catch the lights. I like it very much because it was a moment of fun in our house