Category Archives: WRITING

ART PROJECT: THE TRIP TO THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY IN EDINBURGH

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Your blog post will be in MY WRITING and MY PROJECTS (only if you have this page) category. While composing it, tick its category as “my writing” and/or “my project”. Probably you will have to ADD new category first. If you are stuck and really haven’t a clue how to do it, ask for help.

WHAT TO PUT IN YOUR POST:

You can either put ONE IMAGE or create a GALLERY (see above). If the image features faces of other students, be nice and ask them if they agree to be shown there. I have your permission anyway but it is good manners to ask.

Write app. 100 words about the trip: it’s not a report!!!! You need to write a report for Jane. But, you mght give some info like when/where/who etc.

I am interested more in: 

  • what you learned from the tour
  • what suprised/shocked/stunned/interested you
  • how elements of art and/or principles of art were visible
  • what your favourite bit was
  • and finally – if we need trips like that and how we developed English (or maybe we didn’t)

You post is a free style post. It can look like an essay/article or it can be in a different form.

 

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SURPRISE ME 🙂 🙂 🙂 

 

 

list of blogs: remember they are still in the process 

 

 

Featured image by Gary Campbell-Hall from Edinburgh, UK [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)]

 

 

 

NOMINALISATION

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Nominalisation is a noun phrase generated from another word class, usually a verb. (Other word classes include adjectives and nouns) In other words, the process of nominalisation turns verbs (actions or events) into nouns (things, concepts or people). More plus interactive exercises HERE.

Nominalisation condenses information by removing the person and sometimes other details such as time. It is a process by which verbs, and sometimes adjectives, become nouns.

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT here

BEWARE OF OVERDOING

Do not go over the board. Maintain the balance. Otherwise, … WATCH THE VIDEO!

 

HOW TO WRITE A GOOD INTRODUCTION

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Identifying a good introduction

Why do we need an introduction – watch the video.

Introductions generally follow a similar pattern, even though the style of each essay is discipline and genre specific. Good introductions contain several, if not all, of the following elements:

  • General/background information
  • Supporting/further information
  • Filling/acknowledging a gap in knowledge/research
  • Providing a definition of key/important terms
  • Stating your purpose. That is, stating what you intend to do in the essay/paper/report.
  • Stating your position on the subject you are going to discuss (often called a thesis statement)
  • A summary of the points you are going to cover
  • A recognition of other researchers/writers who have written on the same topic

Read a short article and watch a VERY GOOD VIDEO.

And now, cheCk your knowledge – watch another short video and do the QUIZ. 

HOW TO WRITE A FORMAL LETTER

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Although emails are more popular nowadays, you still have to know how to write a letter. Every time you are writing a letter, you should think about the reader (addressee) and the desired effect on the reader.
Every letter should:
• Start and end appropriately
• Have correct format
• Be neat and well presented
• Be polite even if it is a letter of complaint
• Display correct grammar, spelling and punctuation

MORE INFOR ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES:

Watch the video:

HOW TO MAKE GOOD NOTES

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There are two ways of taking notesI wrote a letter for you.

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Passive note-taking includes:

  • underlining words
  • cutting and pasting from online documents
  • trying to write everything you hear in a lecture
  • copying slides from the screen
  • copying lots of direct quotes rather than putting the ideas in your own words
  • writing notes on everything you read, because you’re not sure what will turn out to be important
  • not evaluating or criticising the sources you use, but just accepting them as suitable evidence

Active note-taking means:

  • thinking about what you want to get out of your research before you start
  • looking for answers to any questions you may have about the topic
  • looking for connections within the topic you’re studying, and to other topics on your course
  • writing notes mostly in your own words – your own explanation of what something says or means
  • recording direct quotes only when it’s important to have the exact words that someone else has used (i.e. when how they say something is as significant as what they say)
  • MORE HERE

HOMEWORK

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Go to the article about AIR POLLUTION and prepare a summary (10 sentences). Choose 10 new words you would like to learn and translate them using a synonym.

Paraphrase the following sentences: Smog was first discovered in Great Britain in the 19th century, during the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. At that time people used coal for heating and cooking.