Developing Writing Skills

Sentence writing

• (a) Sentence completion:look at a picture
• and then complete the sentences.
• The _____is on the shell above the stereo.
• (b) What are they doing?
• Write four sentences about what the people in the picture are doing.
• (c) Time clauses: write four sentences using ‘after’, ‘before’and ‘while’

Parallel writing

• (1) Read the symbols and their meanings

• Good hotel

• Simple hotel

• Tel. number

• City centre

• Time of opening

• bedroom

• Central heating

• B breakfast

• lunch

• dinner

• shower

• bathroom

• -------

• Swimming pool

Parallel writing

• 2. Here is the entry for the hotel Concorde

• Good hotel

• Tel. number8866

• City centre

• All year

• 40

• Central heating

• B 7---9

• 11---3

• dinner

• 15

• 25

• -------

• 1

Parallel writing

• The Hotel Concorde in Paris is a good hotel. The telephone number is 8866. It is in the city centre. The hotel is open all year, and there are forty bedrooms .There is central heating in the hotel. Breakfast is from seven to nine. Lunch is from eleven to three, and dinner is from eight until eleven.There are twenty-five bathrooms and fifteen showers. There is also a swimming pool in the hotel.

Parallel writing

• 3, Read these symbols and describe the hotels in the same way

• Simple hotel

• 4578

• City centre

• All year

• 200

• B 6---10

• 7---9

• 200

• -------

• Swimming pool