Summary about British media

  

Click in MEDIA to watch this informative video again. Remember that we paused it after 3 minutes to write up a summary!

Figures of speech

Click on THEORY to read detailed explanation of the figures of speech.
Click on SNAP to view a man explaining the figures of speech.
Click on SONGS to view some examples in music.

Writing very short stories

This year the EOI organises a very short story competition and you are expected to participate. The skill of writing stories is also part of the curriculum.

The 7 key elements of a successful and effective short story are:
1. good content (plot and climax/surprising element, theme, setting, characters, point of view)
2. clarity (cohesion & coherence)
3. brevity (100 words) and art of suggesting
4. range and precision of vocabulary
5. style (beauty, charm, rhythm)
6. Reference to common elements of the world, general knowledge. Famous literary/ historical references
7. Title (extra info/ meaning)

Here are 2 links with fantastic examples for you to read:
STORIES and PHOTOSTORIES

Here are 3 links to webpages full of useful tips and ideas to help you to improve your writing skills:
PROMPTS, CREATIVE, FORWARD

Think about the many sources for inspiration you have within and around you to start creating now!

KEY for marking of WRitten assignments

Reg: Register (informal, formal)

COHR: coherence (ideas, meaning, logic development...)
COHS: cohesion (puntuation, connector...)
ROS: run on sentence (too long, too many ideas together, too many commas)
Z: start a new paragraph

RiCoG (Riqueza y Corrección Gramatical)
WO: word order
AG: agreement (Subject & verb form, article & noun, singular vs. plural...)
W: wrong (preposition, article, pronoun...)
VT: verb tense
G: grammar structure

RiCoL (Riqueza y Corrección Léxica)
Sp: spelling mistake
WF:Wrong form of the family of words (noun, verb, adjective, adverb...)
WW: wrong word
COLL: collocation (wrong combination of words)

REP: repetitive

(!)= something missing (subject, preposition, article, pronoun, word...)

Avoid "etc/..." and USE: "and so on", "and so forth", "and the like"

Complaint Letters

Click on COMPLAINT to view all sorts of letters depending on the context.

More letter closings

Proper business closings I look forward to hearing from you Yours respectfully Yours sincerely Yours truly	Neutral closings Write soon Best wishes Kind regards
Friendly goodbyes Keep in touch Warm regards Kind thoughts Wishing you the (very) best Take care Yours in friendship Hugs, Big bear hug Kisses, xxx	Signing off informal emails Be good Cheerio, cheers I’m out More to come Tara for now Take it easy Until next time Stay tuned Over to you, over and out To be continued­­­­­

The MAGIC OF 3!!!

Click on MAGIC to view this helpful videoclip again.

Online dictations

Click on DICTATION to practise listening and spelling skills.

Visit to The Sugar Museum in Motril

  

TODAY 26th February and TOMORROW 27th of February we will go to EL MUSEO DE LA CAÑA DE AZÚCAR for a free guided tour in English from 19:00 until 20:15. Then your homework is to write an assessment report about the visit.

Note: if you cannot attend today, you can come tomorrow. The museum is located on the narrow street on the left hand-side from the main entrance to La Casa de la Palma. The exact address is Avenida Marquesa de Esquilache, 4.

Poetry Day

  

First of all, let's listen to this classic song by DYLAN to get us in the right mood...
Here are the links to the readings of these inspiring poems:
ULYSSES , IF ,  INNISFREE , AIRMAN, 4WEDDINGS
Below are the links to poetry pages where you can read them:
TENNYSON and KIPLING

Other pages for your reference:
POETRYLOVERS
POETS
HAIKU

Rhyming DICTIONARY!!!
My DOG ate my homework!

Effective introduction

Here are some tips about how to make your introduction more effective.

Open with an attention grabber. Sometimes, especially if the topic of your paper is somewhat dry or technical, opening with something catchy can help. Consider these options:

1. an intriguing example (for example, the mistress who initially teaches Douglass but then ceases her instruction as she learns more about slavery)
2. a provocative quotation (Douglass writes that “education and slavery were incompatible with each other”)
3. a puzzling scenario (Frederick Douglass says of slaves that “[N]othing has been left undone to cripple their intellects, darken their minds, debase their moral nature, obliterate all traces of their relationship to mankind; and yet how wonderfully they have sustained the mighty load of a most frightful bondage, under which they have been groaning for centuries!” Douglass clearly asserts that slave owners went to great lengths to destroy the mental capacities of slaves, yet his own life story proves that these efforts could be unsuccessful.)
4. a vivid and perhaps unexpected anecdote (for example, “Learning about slavery in the American history course at Frederick Douglass High School, students studied the work slaves did, the impact of slavery on their families, and the rules that governed their lives. We didn’t discuss education, however, until one student, Mary, raised her hand and asked, ‘But when did they go to school?’ That modern high school students could not conceive of an American childhood devoid of formal education speaks volumes about the centrality of education to American youth today and also suggests the significance of the deprivation of education in past generations.”)
5. a thought-provoking question (given all of the freedoms that were denied enslaved individuals in the American South, why does Frederick Douglass focus his attentions so squarely on education and literacy?)

Source: http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/introductions/

Writing topics

Here is a LIST of 100 topics to get you thinking and...writing!

Complete essay writing

Click on ESSAY to view as many times as you wish!

Writing a PROPER paragraph!

Click on PARAGRAPH to view example.

Make sure you fill your paragraph with JUICY DETAILS!