Saying goodbye

I want to express all my love for you, I think it was an unforgettable experience, for sure you will be in my heart forever and I'll always be there for you.

Thank you for all your respect and love.

Mabel Sepúlveda

Task 7

Choose a friend.  Write an article as a comment about him/her like the one on page 66.

Think about:
How you met and why you became friends.
What your friend is like.
What you have in common.
What you do together.

Enjoy it!!!

Task 6 Report

Task 6

Dear students,

You are invited to read this interesting letter and solve the following task:

First, you have to read the letter.

Then, you have to give your opinion about Edna's behaviour as a comment.  
Why do you think Edna tells lies to her family? Would you do the same? Why? (at least 8 lines)

And Finally, you have to assess your classmate comment (peer-correction), as I said in the previous class.  You have to check the grammar rules, don't forget it!!!

Enjoy it!!!

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Victoria College

Woman’s Residence

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario

December 7^th, 1983

Dear mother and dad, 


It has been three months since I left for college. I have been remiss in writing, and I very sorry for my thoughtlessness in not having written before. I will bring you up to date now. But, before you read, please sit down. OK?

Well then, I am getting along pretty well now. The skull fracture and the concussion I got when I jumped out of the window of my dormitory when it caught fire shortly after my arrival are pretty well healed now. I only spent two weeks in the hospital, and now I can see almost normally and get those sickly headaches only once in a while.

Fortunately, the fire in the
 dormitory and my jump were witnessed by
an attendant at the gas station near the dorm,
 and he was the one who called the fire 
department and the ambulance. He also
visited me at the hospital, and since I had
 nowhere to live because of the burned out
dorm, he was kind enough to invite me to share his apartment with him. It is really a basement room, but it's kind of cute. He is a very fine boy and we have fallen deeply in love and are planning to get married. We haven't set the date yet, but it will be before my pregnancy begins to show.

Yes, mother and dad, I am pregnant. I know how much you are looking forward to being grandparents, and I know you will welcome the baby and give it the same love and devotion and tender care that you gave me when I was a child. The reason for the delay in our marriage is that my boyfriend has some minor infection, which prevents us from passing our premarital blood tests, and I carelessly caught it from him. This will soon clear up with the penicillin injections I am now taking daily.

I know you will welcome him into our family with open arms. He is kind, and although not well educated, he is ambitious. Although he is of a different race and religion than ours, I know your often-expressed tolerance will not permit you to be bothered by these facts.

Now that I have brought you up to date, I want to tell you that there was no dormitory fire, I did not have a concussion or a skull fracture, I was not in hospital, I am not pregnant, I am not engaged, I do not have syphilis, and there is no one in my life. However, I am getting a D in History and an F in Science, and I wanted you to see these marks in their proper perspective.

Your loving daughter,

Edna

Assess your classmate comment!!!

Dear students,
As I said before, you have to assess your classmate comment... it has to be consider grammatical rules!!! 
Take these ones into consideration:

• Grammar and spelling. (Carefully)
• The first word of a sentence, or of a fragment, begins with a capital letter, also the proper nouns.
• Sentences are made of two parts: the subject and the predicate.
• Pronouns are used to replace nouns within sentences, making them less repetitive and mechanic.
• Adjectives don’t take plural form.  They are always singular.
• Correct form of the Tenses
• and here you have a link to support your work...
• http://www.grammarbook.com/
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Task 5

Write a short paragraph telling us about some interesting story about your childhood or your father/mother/best friend childhood. (whatever you want)

Enjoy it!!!

Tasks Participation Report

If you can't see properly, go to the following link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fGXTB-0JxWaEF0knOweqcUvMeKvw4bGubmWzBPu6n30/edit

Note: Remember to assess your classmate comment performance, considering the help note in Task 2 and also the grammar link that I gave you in Task 4.  Correct his/her mistakes and give him/her feedback in a very respectful way.

For next class you have to give me your assessment results.

People who don't have any comment, take one of it in Task 4. (copy and paste a comment in a word processor and do the same activity as your classmates)

This kind of exercise will be considered as participation mark (the half part of task 5)
If you have questions, contact me!!! 

Finally, don't forget all the tasks for next class.