Soon our final English test for this semester will come up: it will again have two major parts: part A: Grammar and this section will most likely again cover the following topics: reported speech;if sentences; passive constructions and hopefully also the ability to recognize and name any given tense in i.e. a newspaper text.
Part B: Writing..here the students will be asked to write a pro and con comment or essay on a given topic using a minimum of about 250 words or so.
In class we practised our very first steps by using a Time article about the first baby steps the Obama administration may want to or should initiate to carefully lift the legal restrictions that presently govern the use of marijuana in the US and in most parts of the western world.So far we phrased the topic,listed the pro arguments,stated the arguments against the free use of pot and next we will have to develop a catching introduction and also our concluding paragraph.
While researching essay writings in pro and con style I came across this informative entry on youtube.com and I want to share it here....don't be mislead by the narrator's voice: this is NOT comedy....this is actually a genuine teaching video about how to write an great essay on the topic of outlawing fast food restaurants like McDonalds.....maybe we should have used this topic instead of the marijuana one!!?
