Creative Writing Eng5

Writing could be dealing with a letter to a friend, a short story or perhaps a letter to the editor. We will be practicing writing in various ways using first and second drafts along with peer review.

Reading

Follow the link: Choking the world with plastics

Extra Reading: https://www.good.is/infographics/transparency-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch

Writing

1. Work with the material you recieved in class, post you 50 word text on the Facebook event we created. Trash - A blessing or a curse!
2. It is time to broaden your vocabulary in order to really be able to describe what you are trying to say. When you are writing a letter you might like to use the idioms from the following website Follow this link! 
3. Letter to the editor: please consider the format, register and tone: 
4. Association practice: Vocabulary expansion, word games, false friends
5. Writing a letter: a) Informal b) Formal

Listening

Great pacific garbage patch - SciShow

Wordlist: Sewer (avlopp), Patch (fläck/fält), Gyre (virvel), Vortex (virvel), congregate (ansamling), to corral (verb. Samla), landfill (gräva ner), suspended (inställa/avbryta), literally (bokstavligen), biodegradeble (nedbrytningsbar), leeching (läcka ut), entangled (trassla in), gasket (packning).

Speaking

1. Discussion questions in class
2. Short presentation of you text in class

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Creative Writing Letter

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Creative writing letter

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Choking the Oceans With Plastic

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/opinion/choking-the-oceans-with-plastic.html