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Aaliyah - Try Again

Aaliyah was an American recording artist, dancer, actress and model. She'd be 33 years old today, but she died in a plane crash in 2001. You can learn about her and her work on this website.
Here you have one of her videos, enjoy it!

Check your progress - Unit 5

Here you have the answer key  to the Check your progress section in Unit 5 (page 64). Don't hesitate to ask me any question you may have. ;)

Writing a narrative

Next day, we will learn how to write a narrative. So, here you have the steps to follow when writing one. Have a look at them and if you have questions, don't worry, cause we will comment on it in class.

STEPS:

1. Make a list of everything that happened. Decide which information is important and relevant to your story.

2. Organise your ideas:
- First paragraph (opening): sets the scene of the story and introduces the characters
- Second and third paragraphs (body): gives details of the story
- Fourth paragraph (closing): ending of the story and its consequences

3. Use adjectives/ manner and degree adverbs to make your story more interesting.

4. Use appropriate verbal tenses.

5. Check your work for mistakes.

Order Of Adjectives

As  I told you, in order to make our essays more interesting and richer, we use a number of adjectives and adverbs. When we want to use more than one adjective to describe a noun, we must follow an specific order.

So instead of just saying: "I want to buy a fast car"., we could say: "I want to buy a fast, beautiful, big, brand-new, black and red, French car."

However, we don't normally use that many adjectives to describe a noun, because it would be excessive. Use just two or three!! and keep the order!!

Remember! we write commas in between the adjectives, but NOT in between the adjective and the noun. Should we use two adjectives from the same column, we write "and" in between, as in "black and red".


Here you can have a look at this order and some examples and then do some exercises: Order of adjectives

Natural Disasters

Hurricane Sandy- US

As we are now talking about natural disasters and survivals, I suggest you have a look at the website of National Geographic, which is very interesting.

"Learn how rock, wind, ice, snow, raging storms, and Earth's inner fire have transformed the planet and life on it. Watch video from inside a tornado, create your own hurricane, and see photos of tsunami devastation."

Here is the link

Relative Clauses

Before the Christmas holidays we worked on relative clauses in class. Here you have an explanation in order to refresh your memory.



And here you have some exercises (on relative pronouns, combining sentences..) to test your knowledge  ! ;)