This is the best world's city for us!

Hi all!  

Hope you are doing well! Welcome to our second activity! In this, you will write about "The world's best city", using English language. Post your comments before April 5th, 8 p.m.

As we agreed, you will be work in pairs. So, make decisions accordingly to what you decided last class.

1. Follow the given instructions on page 73, practice activity 2, module 8 - Cutting Edge textbook.

* Imagine you are tourist guiders trying to persuade a foreign visitor that one of these places is "the world's best city, considering: a) a town/city you know well, b) your town/city.

2. Write a creative composition (70 sentences at least), considering all the proposed items in the mentioned activity (language focus) and the use of quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns.
- Do not forget to include relevant information about history, culture, customs, food, places to visit there and possible social issues to deal with.

3. Language/writing aspects:

- Simple sentence structure: subject + verb + complement.

- Look for useful vocabulary you need.
- Before posting, check grammar, spelling, punctuation rules, etc.

4. Plan your presentation as creative as possible assuming your role (10 min per group) about the selected town/city, to be presented on  April 10th. Feel free to use photos, slides, etc.

All your writings will be welcome as comments... Thanks for participating!

1st creative writing challenge!

Hi all!  

Hope you are doing well! Welcome to our first activity. Please, post your comments before March 14, 8 p.m.!

1. Consider the brainstorming activity developed in class about the video "I want to be a pilot". Link... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LivgEs5gYtY

2. Write your own version of the story. Try to use a short tale's writing structure: introduction, body and conclusion.

- Introduction: it usually offers something that changes / affects / motivates the characters of the story to overcome a situation.

- Body: it usually reveals how the characters move toward overcoming the situation.

- Conclusion: it has to do with facing one difficult choice and decides one correct option while working out of the situation.

3. Write a paragraph for each one of the parts mentioned above, giving your own ideas to tell your version of the story. It must have 150 words at least.

4. Prepare an oral report about it to be presented on March 15th, you just will have 2 1/2 minutes and it is expected you to say 50 sentences at least.

4. Language use / writing aspects:

- Simple sentence structures, consider past simple and past continuous.

- Useful vocabulary you need to express your ideas.
- Grammar, spelling, punctuation rules, etc.

All your writings will be welcome as comments... Thanks for participating!