Learn English Writing, 7

Two hour class:

Timed repeated writing.
Here are some practice questions to help you improve your proofreading skills.
Want to learn English as fast as possible? Don’t forget your listening skills.
How good is your English vocabulary? Can you find 20 adjectives in this list?
Another English vocabulary game: make words by adding vowels.
Practice good English sentences: appositives and complex sentences.

Midterm Exam Questions

This week we will prepare for the midterm exam. (download this pdf for printing)

Part 1. Rewrite a Story

You will rewrite one story that you wrote before. The story will be one of these:

Past actions – write a story with 2 or 3 actions that happened in different places at different times.
Write a summary of Room 8. Include a description of character, plot setting, and the message.

Part 2. Writing, Thinking and Analysis

We learned and practiced a writing format that creates knowledge. We used this format for two murder mystery stories and a study of Korean food consumption patterns. That pattern was:

Begin with a question
Find evidence
Create a rule
Make a conclusion

Look at the data. Write a short report that explains something important. Use the same writing format as above.

Part 3. Find the hedges. Rewrite the paragraph with no hedges.

To the best of my knowledge, nobody blamed the oil spill on the workers. Apparently, the accident was caused by a problem with one of the pipes. The pipe likely had a small hole, which allowed dangerous gas to escape. This gas probably caused the explosion. About 40% of the workers were injured. The doctor said he believes most of them could be released from hospital in a few days. I talked to some wives of the oil workers. Many of the wives seemed angry at the company.

Part 4. Vocabulary. Write a few words to show the meaning of each word or phrase:

ailment, attitude, belief, bundle
celebrate, coincidence, courage, creative
emerge, emotions, endurance, luck
misfortune, omit, persist, psychologist
shovel, stimulating, subconsciously, superstition
symbolize, thesis statement, traditional

Part 5. Paragraph Editing.

Find the mistakes (mostly punctuation and spelling; about 10 mistakes per paragraph) and rewrite the paragraph.

Paragraph A

did you know that a person can live without food for more than a hole month a person can only live four about won week without water we need water more then we need food. About 97% of earths water is in the oceans. Just 3 % of the earths water can be used four drinking. Approximately 75% of the worlds fresh water is frozen in the north and south polar ice caps.

Paragraph B

did you no that bats are mammals. we no they are mammals just like us because they are warm-blooded they are the only mammals that no how to fly bats are Nocturnal, which means they sleep during the day and are awake at night?