Friday, 30 October 2009

Post # 9: Hobbies

Write about your hobbies and how they have helped you shape your personality. You may use these questions as a guide.

- What hobbies do you have?
- When did you start doing it/them?
- what kind of skills do they require or have you developed in relation to them?
- How do you think these hobbies have contributed to shape / develop your personality?
- Do they make you get in touch with other people, or do you develop them individually?

Write between 300-350 words.
Leave comments on two of your partners' blogs.

Enjoy your writing.

Friday, 23 October 2009

Post # 8: Holiday destinations (with mark)

Write about the kinds of places you like going to in summer.

- Refer to a place visited by you in the past, where you had a great time.
- talk about your plans for the next summer holidays; where would you like/are you planning to go?, why?, what can you do there?, Who is going to travel with you?, where are you going to stay there?, etc.

- write between 350-400 words.
- leave comments on two of your classmates blogs.

Enjoy your writing!

Friday, 16 October 2009

Post # 7: summary of a career-related article from The Guardian

Go to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
- Select a news item connected to your area of studies / future career.
- Write a summary of it. DO NOT COPY-PASTE or you'll lose points!
- Provide the link to your piece of news.
- leave a comment on 2 of their partners' posts.
- Write 200 - 250 words.

You may want to have a look at this link on how to write a summary: http://www.class.uidaho.edu/adv_tech_wrt/resources/general/how_to_summarizarize.htm

Thursday, 8 October 2009

Post # 6: a sporting life

Today you have to write about the importance of sport:
a) for individuals, and
b) for a nation.

Use these questions to build your ideas:
- do you practice any sport or physical activity? what benefit do you get from it?
- what impact may sport have on a country's health?
- how would you encourage these people to do more sport: children, teenagers, adults?
- do you think that we will have better sports people in the future? Is there a genetic factor or is it social or training that make a sportsman/woman of excellence?

Write between 250-300 words. And leave comments in two of your classmates' blogs.

Enjoy your writing.