Use the information below to write a letter to a friend about your holiday in Rhodes, Greece.

Para 1.

Where you are: Rhodes, Greece

What the weather is like: hot and sunny

Where you are staying: Rodos Park Suites Hotel near the old town

Para 2:

What you have done: been to Kalithea Spa/Tuesday/ lovely/ relaxing/ took

pictures/ walked around the old town /fascinating /bought

some souvenirs

Para 3:

What you haven’t done: visited the Archaeological Museum; been to the Hydro-

biological Institute

What you are going to do: visit the museum/tomorrow afternoon/ to admire the

exhibits; go to the Hydro-biological Institute/ Friday/

to see the many different fish

Para 4:

What you think of the place: magnificent – worth seeing it one day

When you are returning: 2^nd September – see you then

Pre-writing task 2

Your friend called Charlie has invited you to go clubbing next Saturday, but you can’t go. Write an e-mail to Charlie. In your e-mail you should

· thank him for inviting you

· tell him you can’t go

· suggest meeting another time

Before writing, read the e-mails A, B and C. Decide which is the best answer and why. What is wrong with the other two answers?

A

Dear Charlie I’m inviting you to go clubbing with me next Saturday. I hope you can come, but, please, tell me if you can’t. If I don’t see you on Saturday, we could meet another day. Are you free on Friday? Sara

B

Dear Charlie Thank you for inviting me to go clubbing with you next Saturday. I’m sorry, but I can’t go because I’m going to Edinburgh for the weekend with my cousins. I’d like to see you next week. Are you free on Monday evening? Ivana

C

Dear Charlie I can’t come clubbing with you on Saturday. Can we meet another time? I am free on Tuesday. We could go to a café. Patricia

Pre-writing task 3

Imagine you won the lottery money. Think over the ideas how the money сould be spent.

Would you donate a greater part of it to charity organizations? What projects could you support exactly:

· financial support for orphanages

· caring after sick, poor and homeless

· solving urgent problems in your city / country

· some global environmental problems, etc.?

Would you prefer to spend the part of the lottery money on your own:

· helping your relatives / friends

· further education

· traveling

· shopping

· buying a house

· starting your own business, etc.?

Write your ideas what is the best way to spend the lottery money you won.

VI. Perform the following writing task:

Write a letter to your friend how you could spend the lottery money. Learn the notes above how to write informal letters.

MODULE 10 An amazing story

WRITING

Write an essay “ The most amazing story ” which is supposed to be written in the third person (third-person narratives). Learn the notes above (See Module 2) how to write narrative stories.

WRITING NOTES

Third-person narratives are written in the third person (he/she/they/etc) and are real or imaginary stories about another person or other people. Like a first-person narrative, a third-person narrative should consist of:

 

Introduction in which you set the scene (who was involved, time, place, etc) in an interesting way to help the

reader imagine the scene and want to continue reading;

Main body consisting of two or more paragraphs in which you develop your story

presenting the events in the order that they happened; and

Conclusion in which you say what happened at the end and refer to people’s feelings,

final comments or reactions.

 

MODEL

A narrow escape

The early evening air was cool and mild as Ted Wilson walked along the almost-deserted beach. He wanted to be completely alone to think about his future. Since he had lost his job, his life seemed to be full of problems. He felt very depressed.

Walking to the far end of the beach, Ted was so deep in thought that he didn’t notice the clouds which had gathered overhead. When the heavy drops of the rain began to fall, he looked up in surprise and hurried back towards his car.

The soft dry sand of the beach slowed him down, so he ran on the hard wet sand at the water’s edge. Before he had gone fifty metres, he suddenly started sinking into the sand. He realized to his horror that he had stepped into quicksand. When he tried to move, the sand pulled him deeper – and the tide was coming in The water soon covered his waist, and continued to rise. ”Help!” – he shouted desperately. ”Help! I’m going to drown!”

Luckily, a man, who was looking for shells at the other end of the beach, heard Ted shouting. He managed to pull Ted out of the quicksand and helped him to safety. Ted was so relieved to have escaped that he couldn’t say a word. He shook a man’s hand, again and again, in silent thanks.

After what had happened, Ted realized that losing a job wasn’t the worst thing that could happen to someone. He felt lucky to be alive, and was sure that everything would be all right in the end.

WRITING ASSIGNMENT:

I. Activate words and collocations from your student’s book:

a few days later	It’s completely unrealistic.
a few weeks passed	It’s very moving.
abandon	It’s really scary.
adventure	It’s very imaginative.
amazing coincidence	It’s got a moral.
after a while	It has a happy ending.
at last	It made me cry.
attempt	immediately
commit the crime	ingenious
desperate to escape	isolated house
detective stories	myths and legends
discover	newspaper headline
eventually	obviously
fairy tales	one day many years ago
feeling tired / terrified	robbery
final draft	romances
fortunately /unfortunately	science fiction and fantasy
fraud	The plot is complicated
ghost stories	The plot is really clever.
gradually	to their surprise / horror
in the end	unemployed