WRITING IT RIGHT
I really like the name of our course, I have been writing for a long time, I mean, through my courses of english here at the Colombo, and even before in courses in other institutions, I have done essays, texts, comments, and homeworks, but do I really can writing it right?
This happened in our first day in class. We did a simple activity, Anagram, we had to do a sentence from each letter of the word "WRITING". Also, we realized that writing is another indispensable way of communication that has existed even in the time of cavemen. Everyday we have to write something and obviously it is important to improve our skills.
STORYTELLER
In this new oportunity, Storyteller was one of my favorites activities, I wrote a very short sumarry about my first time traveling on a plane. Two partners rewrote my story, and it was very funny that both changed information, we were playing like broken phone. For me was very interesting how form a pretty little story yo can re-create something new.
PARTS OF A NARRATIVE ESSAY
Identify the parts of a essay is fun, you need to read carefully, and to think very good in the story that you want to write. Each paragraph has new information and has a lot of this aspects. For me, the most dificult part as to understand the differences between Mood and Theme, now, I feel better about it, because we had to do many activities and a complete Narrative essay
PRACTICE AND PRACTICE
After the explications, came the real work, the text is "Frustration in the Airport". The previous activity (Parts of a narrative essay) gave us the necesary information to practice with this text. We identify the Plot, Hook, Setting, Mood, and Theme.
PUNCTUATION... SUCH A DIFICULT TOPIC
You read the first sentence and you said "Ok, it´s not that bad".... ja ja. Two seconds later, you don´t trust even in yourself and your knowledge. I liked a lot this activity, but also it was challenging. I learned about commas, and others punctuation marks, that are totally indisensables for our course and our written life.
PRACTICE WITH COMMAS
Read once, read twice, and again.
As the teacher said "a comma can change the meaning of a sentence" so, you have to read and understand very good what are you trying to say, and in this case, we had to put the comma where they belong without changing the idea of the phrase.
RUN ON SENTENCES FIX
This was an activity in pairs, we had to fix the sentences with punctuation. The previous exercises were just an appetizer because with this new challenge we realized that we have a lot of work to do and keep practicing during and after the course.
Hi Stefany,
ResponderBorrarGood blog!, I would like to express my agree with your opinion about the interesting thing we have learned from the course. Also, I want to share a piece of advice in order to you to get into punctuation and spelling faster. Since my experience, Reading is one of the most reliable activity you can do in you daily life when it comes to language improving. For example, you can start reading some of those children's books (plenty of fun stories), then try reading academic writing (not fun at all), after that go to literature (Edgar Allan Poe is a good choice for the very first beginning in your English reading), and finally you can be brave and go poetry (i.e. Walt Whitman). I know, it could seems to be overwhelming, but believe me, you are going to improve your vocab, grammar, spelling, and punctuation A LOT. So, just try some of those recommendations and see what happens!
Sincerely,
Mauro
Throughout my own experience, I would not even know essays had different parts. I did not have much fun learning them, since I am not really used to use them. However, our teacher really did his part and led us through the right path on understanding and memorizing them. It is worth noticing how we are really learning new things on this course by getting out of our comfort zone and pushing us all to our limits.
ResponderBorrarI just saw a great start from your part on this blog Stefany. You still have a long way to go. hahahah.
Hey Stefany, I totally agree with you in the punctuation activity. When you start, you think it is not too hard. But after, you start to write comas everywhere and whats worse, when you re-read, it sounds good the first time. The second no and finally you don`t know where you must to put a coma. It`s horrible. But I think it was very usefull. Thank you Stefany for share your experience.
ResponderBorrarHellowi Tefy, in your publication on Anagram, I would say that it is not a simple activity aajaja but it is very practical. It makes you think and be creative by building sentences. I like your blog in general!
ResponderBorrar