Bloque I“Aprendizaje del Inglés por medio de ejercicios de practica para mejorar la lectura y escritura.”

Escuela Normal Superior del Sur de TamaulipasMaría del Carmen Martínez García8° Semestre Inglés

WRITING A LETTER TO A NEW PEN PAL

• Writing tips:• We start a letter to a new pen pal with a salutation.

Example: dear + our pen pal first name.• In the first paragraph we introduce ourselves. Example:

we write our name, age, where we are from, and the grade we are in.

• In the body paragraphs we write about our school. Example: its name, a description of outside and inside of the school, the classes, etc. in the last paragraph we write our closing remarks. Examples: that is all about me or I have to go now and ask our pen pal to write back. We end our letter with your new friend and our first name.

A LETTER TO A NEW PEN PAL

AN ARTICLE DESCRIBING A PERSON

•Writing tips:•PLAN•Introduction:•Paragraph 1: name, where from, family.•Body:•Paragraph 2: facial features.•Paragraph 3: character.•Conclusion:•Paragraph 4: feelings about the person.

A Good Neighbor

A FANTASTIC NEIGHBOR• Cassie Baker is my next-door neighbor and my best

friend. She is from Ireland. Her father Padraig, is a doctor and her mother Lissa is a teacher. Cassie doesn´t have any brothers or sisters, she is an only child.

• Cassie is very pretty, she is seventeen years old, with straight red hair and green eyes, she also has freckles.

• Cassie is a wonderful person. She is smart and kind. We call her social butterfly because she is always making new friends. Her favorite sport is swimming. She is very good at eat. Cassie has a cat, too. His name is Charly.

• Cassie is a fantastic neighbor. She is friendly and funny and we have lots of fun together. She is a lovely girl and I am lucky that she is my next-door neighbor.

WRITING A HOUSE AD

•Writing tips:•To write an ad for a house for rent we

write how much the rent is and the exact address. We start our ad by saying where the house is (location) and how big it is (size). Next we write how many rooms there are and what there is in each room. Then we describe the outside of the house. We end the ad by giving a telephone number for more information.

WRITING A HOUSE AD

WRITING A HOUSE AD

Address: 42 Brooke Street, Shirley, MAFor rent: $400/weekThis attractive house, on a quiet street in the beautiful

historical town of Shirley, Massachusetts, is for two people or a small family. It has a spacious living room, a small dining room, a kitchen, two bedrooms and a bathroom. In the living room there are two comfortable armchairs, a couch and a television with a DVD. The modern kitchen has a new stove and fridge. There are two cozy bedrooms with wooden closets. The bathroom has a bathtub and a shower. There is a lovely front yard and a huge back yard with trees.

Call978 425 1804 for more information.

WRITING AN ARTICLE ABOUT YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE

•PLAN•Introduction•Paragraph 1: title, type of movie, opinion.•Body•Paragraph 2: main characters, plot.•Conclusion•Paragraph 3: restating opinion and reason

MY FAVORITE MOVIE

MY FAVORITE MOVIE• Would you like to go from zero to hero? Then watch the

mask! It is a fantastic comedy, romance, and action movie, all in one. It is an excellent movie because it has everything!

• Stanley Ipkiss is a shy bank clerk in Edge City. He is a nice person but he can´t do anything right.. one day, he……………… an ancient mask. He…………… it on his face and his whole life changes. He can move like superman and dance like Fred Astaire. He………… to stop a bank robbers are after him. The police………….. him and……………. Him prison, but Milo, ………………. To a nightclub to save Tina, the girl he…………. A lot, from the robbers. The police arrest the robbers and Stanley becomes a hero.

• All in all, I think the mask is a great movie with fantastic special effect. It´s my favorite movie because it´s funny and exciting.

Be a Writer

Be a Writer• Essay writing• “Writing an essay sounds like a difficult and time consuming

experience, a little like a visit to the dentist. But an essay is just an expression or what you know and how you feel about any subject, reading in a way that will make it understandable and effective. Essay writing is not just a composition subject; it is a skill that will help you succeed in every subject. An essay can be informational and it can be explained in a complex subject. It can also be personal. A personal essay describes how you feel about something, an essay that uses your opinion and attitudes about an important issue in your life. It could include your attitude toward backpacks endangered animals, or the way your school is organized.

Parts of an essay

•An essay has 5 basic parts: The thesis, the title, the topic sentence, support sentences and the conclusion. The paint of many essay is to make you aware of a situation, and offend they suggest what to do about it.

Working with sequence

•Essays name proper sequence. Imagine someone telling you about a movie and scrambling up the ending, the best points and how it stared. When you write an essay about any subject you must put your ideas in logical order. Take a look at the event below and put them into the correct sequence.

Writing a letter about vacationsDear Miriam:

I hope you’re great. What is new over there? Sorry I haven’t been able to send you that many of emails but I really have been busy.

Anyway, I ‘ve got some great news. I went to Las Vegas during the summer. My sister really surprised me with the tickets. She bought them for me, and I’m traveling with her and some other friends as a bachelor party. She is getting married in October and this is like a big bachelor party. I was awesome; I really had a great time. I visited lots of luxurious hotels and played in the casinos. I also went to many shopping malls and bought some clothes. The weather was hot, but it’s a different kind of hotness, because in Vegas there’s no humidity like in Tampico, because it’s a desert. I didn’t sweat at al but I still was really thirsty after walking a long time under the sun.

That’s all for now. See youLove, Marie 

 A complain in a restaurant

•  • Dear Sir-Madam:•  • I’m writing to complain about the service, food and prices at your restaurant , T. G.

I Fridays.•  • The first that I didn’t like is when a waiter has not acknowledged of new people on

a table yet, and they have been sitting there wondering if anyone will come over. This is always a bad start in a restaurant, the waiter always must go to the table and even if they are too busy at that moment to stay, they must tell the guest they will be right with them as soon as they can. We stayed waiting at least for 20 minutes, and then the waiter finally arrived.

•  • I expect an apology for spoiling my evening, and I hope that you will improve the

service in a future, or else you will keep losing costumers.•  •  • Sincerely, Mary Carmen Martínez•  

An article about a visit to a buliding • On this winter vacations I visited the Sears Tower in

Chicago. I had a good time and I learned about this other famous tower. Here are some interesting facts about the tower.

• The Willis Tower (formerly named, and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower) is a 108-story, 1451-foot (442 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois.

• At the time of its completion in 1973, it was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York, and it held this rank for nearly 25 years. The Willis Tower is the tallest building in the United States and the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the world, as well as the fifth tallest building in the world to the roof.

An article about a visit to a buliding

• There is a section inside the building where you can look at the whole city with a telescope. Looking at if from the ground make me feel very small. Inside, there is so mucho to see and do. It was a clear winter day, so I was able to take lots of pictures, of course it was also very cold, but I didn’t mind I was having lots of fun. After I had lunch in a restaurant in the tower, I went to the gift shop and bought some souvenirs.

•  • Those vacations where fantastic because I visited

many places in Chicago and learned many things.

Bloque II “Aprendizaje del Inglés por medio de ejercicios de practica para mejorar la lectura y escritura.” Parte 2

Enhancing Comprehension: Reading Skills in Middle School •Middle school is the time your child develops

the sophisticated reading skills that allow him to analyze literature and master the content of the entire curriculum — social studies, science, math, health, and foreign languages. Reading becomes a powerful tool to find information, make sense of complex material, and find enjoyment in literature and popular media. Middle-school instruction therefore focuses on refining and strengthening existing skills. Key components are:

Strategic reading:

•Your child needs to learn how and when to skim and when to study thoroughly. She doesn't have to read an entire book about space exploration if she only wants to find the date of the first lunar landing.

•Reading milestones:

Strategic reading:

•Reading with a purpose, knowing when it's important to understand every detail and when she can read quickly for pure enjoyment

•Reading selectively, scanning chapter headings and introductory sentences to find necessary information

•Skimming a chapter in a textbook to form an overall impression

Comprehension:

Grappling with the deeper meaning of a text will strengthen understanding. Good readers are continually questioning themselves.

Reading milestones:•Getting below the surface of facts on the

page and evaluating critically •Drawing conclusions about why certain

things happened •Connecting new information to other

knowledge and personal experience

Vocabulary:

One of the key differences between a good reader and a poor reader is vocabulary. Effective vocabulary study involves more than memorizing definitions.

Reading milestones:•Using new words correctly in writing •Using knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, and

base words to expand vocabulary •Mastering the vocabulary of different

content areas

Speed

Poor readers are usually slow even after they become accurate. To build speed, your child needs to read a lot of text at a level that is easy for him to comprehend.

Reading milestones:•Reading for pleasure •Getting hooked on books by the same

author •Reading fast enough to do homework in a

reasonable amount of time

Writing skillsWritten responses to reading can

greatly enhance comprehension. Writing improves when your child practices answering specific questions and researching new topics.

Milestones:•Linking sentences into organized

paragraphs •Writing clear, coherent, and

focused essays including formal introductions, supporting evidence, and conclusions

Reading Comprehension Examples• Piers plowman: The prologue• Translation in English• Lines 11-19• Then began I to dream a marvellous dream,•

That I was in a wilderness wist I not where.•

As I looked to the east right into the sun,•

I saw a tower on a toft worthily built;•

A deep dale beneath a dungeon therein,•

With deep ditches and dark and dreadful of sight•

A fair field full of folk found I in between,•

Of all manner of men the rich and the poor,•

Working and wandering as the world asketh.

Pygmalion• A Romance in Five Acts (1912) is a play by Irish

playwright George Bernard Shaw. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a comment on women's independence, packaged as a romantic comedy.

•The Pygmalion myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story in 1871, called Pygmalion and Galatea. Shaw also would have been familiar with the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed.

Modernist poetry in English• Is generally considered to have emerged in the

early years of the 20th century with the appearance of the Imagists.

• In common with many other modernists, these poets wrote in reaction to the perceived excesses of Victorian poetry, with its emphasis on traditional formalism and ornate diction.

• In general, modernists saw themselves as looking back to the best practices of poets in

earlier periods and other cultures. Their models included ancient Greek literature, Chinese and Japanese poetry, the troubadours, Dante and

the medieval Italian philosophical poets (such as Guido Cavalcanti), and the English Metaphysical

poets

•Much of early modernist poetry took the form of short, compact lyrics. As it developed, however, longer poems came to the fore. These represent the main contribution of the modernist movement to the 20th-century English poetic canon.

•The roots of English-language poetic modernism can be traced back to the works of a number of earlier writers, including Walt Whitman, whose long lines approached a type of free verse, the prose poetry of Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning's subversion of the poetic self, Emily Dickinson's compression and the writings of the early English Symbolists, especially Arthur Symons. However, these poets essentially remained true to the basic tenets of the Romantic movement and the appearance of the Imagists

Examples•The roots of English-language poetic modernism

can be traced back to the works of a number of earlier writers, including Walt Whitman, whose long lines approached a type of free verse, the prose poetry of Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning's subversion of the poetic self, Emily Dickinson's compression and the writings of the early English Symbolists, especially Arthur Symons. However, these poets essentially remained true to the basic tenets of the Romantic movement and the appearance of the Imagists

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