MARIA EUGENIA VILORIA ORTIN

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The participants must investigate:

Parts of a Paragraph

Topic Sentence

The topic sentence is the first sentence in a paragraph. It introduces the main idea of the paragraph.

Supporting Details

They come after the topic sentence, making up the body of a paragraph. They give details to develop and support the main idea of the paragraph.

Closing Sentence

The closing sentence is the last sentence in a paragraph. It restates the main idea of your paragraph.

Kings of Paragraphs

Definition

When writing a definition paragraph, you take a thing or an idea and explain what it is. Examples: “is defined as” or “is a kind of”

Classification

When writing a classification paragraph, you group things or ideas into specific categories.

Helper Words: is a kind of. can be divided into, is a type of. falls under, belongs to, is a part of, fits into, is grouped with, is related to, is associated with.

Description

In a description paragraph, you are writing about what a person, place, or thing is like. Sometimes, you may describe where a place is located.

Helper Words: About Properties (size, colours, shapes, purpose); Measurement (length, width, mass/weight, speed), Analogy (is like, resembles) and Location (is, above, below, beside, near, north/south/east/west).

Compare and Contrast

In a compare and contrast paragraph, you write about the similarities and differences between two or more people, places, things, or ideas.

Helper Words:

On similarities: is similar to, both, also, too, as well

On differences: the other hand, however, but, in contrast, differs fron, while, unlike

Infografía

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Writing Practice Exercise #1

General Instructions:

Please read the instructions for each part of the exercise.

(a) Write one topic sentence for each of the following topics:

Your hometown
A place you would like to travel to.
(Another topic of your own choosing)

Your hometown

María Eugenia Viloria Ortin

Maracaibo, color city and heat.

Even when I love Caracas, the city that adopted me and it fell in love me with their cultural activity, their architectural spaces in the country, and majestic Ávila, I cannot stop to remember the spaces, the breeze, the heat, the presence of the lake in the day-to-dayness, in the day by day that Maracaibo offers to its native ones, to those that dare to come closer to her.

Spaces like the Street Carabobo, the Walk of the Lake, the Mirador of the Bridge, Santa Lucía are places that make remember the childhood, full with breeze, heat and sun until burning the feet.

To have breakfast tequeños with pepsi-cola, only with pepsi-cola, go to eat cepillados after eating lunch fish fried in Port Horse, they are forced rites for those that live outside of the homeland and that returns from time to time to recapture the impulse from the roots to continue with flavor to history the life of the capital.

A place you would like to travel to.

Returning to the pregnant walls of history

I believe that if I could, I would return one and a thousand times to a castle that moved me: The Castle of Gradara, in the center of Italy, County of Ancona.

The place where Dante Alighieri relates us the death of the two big lovers in the Divine Comedy: Paolo and Francesca. It is still in the air the presence of Gianciotto spying their wife Francesca while she meets with her lover, the brother of the first. Damned nail! A nail is only the guilty of so much death.

The great tower, with the shields of the family, the roads of the walls, the room of tortures, the grave of the mutilated bodies, and the view, everything flooded with the ancestral stones that compose the castle, besides the hawkers, the artisans, the chapels of the town, are almost memories of my history. Encounter place with the Middle ages, with my desire and with my peace.

Another Topic

About Peru

Nobody can deny that Europe is beautiful. It is not necessary not even to say it. Venezuelans have always thought that our country is the best thing after countries developed Italy, Spain, France, the United State, Germany, are our places preferred for the tourism, and the dream to obtain nationality where to develop to us professionally.
We never considered countries in Latin America like worthy places for the venezuelan. Immense Venezuelan pride, but is only necessary step on Perú the Capital city to give account to us of the beauty, the civil people and future development that we could obtan in that country, poor by fame, but rich in fact and economic future like power at world-wide level.

Writing Practice Exercise #2

Write paragraphs:

(a) One Definition paragraph of at least seven sentences.

Knowledge: it is the Information that brings over of the world who allows to a Being to take decisions.
Intelligence is the capacity that we have to adapt situation new situations.
The sea is a great mass of salty water that covers most of the terrestrial globe.
An enormous sphere of gas, isolated in the space, which produces energy in his interior.
Information is a set of significant and pertinent information that describe events or entities.
Data Information or so called is symbols that describe conditions, facts, situations or values.
The liberty it is the natural faculty of the man to act according to his will.

(b) One Classification paragraph with seven or more sentences.

The Animal kingdom is divide in he animal kingdom qualifies in: vertebrates and invertebrates.
The classification of the soils they are in the habit of being based on the morphology and the composition.
The sentences qualify in: denunciative, interrogative, exclamatory the modern roses qualify in climbing and not climbing.
The arts are divide between auditory and visual.
The stones qualify for his form in: of rolled form, angular form and flagstones.
The astrology you classify in: World Astrology, Astrology of Pairs or Couples and Astrology Predictive.

The house has room, dining room, bedrooms, garage, terrace, bathrooms and garden
The baby is fat, tiny and has hair and dark eyes
The countryman is of aquiline face, brown hair and clear face.
The boy was high, thin, funny and blue eyes
Mr. Gonzalez is a serious man, dedicated to his work and kind
The girl was playful, friendly and very responsible
His eyes are happy and their nose is curved although very proportionate

(d) One Comparison paragraph with seven or more sentences.

I fattened so much that now the zipper doesn’t close.
She has so much problems that she, does not achieve.
The almond-tree is small that that there are in my garden
He was less prepared to jump that to run.
Its more easy to speak that to be kept in silent.
I do not find this city so interesting as they say.
He is less prepared to win the mark that to obtain it.

(e) One Constract paragraph with seven or more sentences.

In spite of the fact that I him dint not go well in view of the result of the examination.
Though you are antipathetic, want to know more about your life.
In spite of doing the exercises for 3 days, it, she will not finish them.
In spite of the above mentioned thing, if he will not change my point of view.
This racecing none the less, I wish to buy it, but, do not have money.
Still this way, he came to class singing