Ex. 09.16: Eating Habits – Writing

FAMILY DESCRIPTION. Write a four-paragraph description of your eating habits that you will share in class.

• Pre-Writing: Review the vocabulary and texts in Ch. 7-9 and make a brief outline for four paragraphs:
  • Breakfast: Common foods, typical drinks, time, place, people, favorite foods
  • Lunch: Common foods, typical drinks, time, place, people, favorite foods
  • Dinner: Common foods, typical drinks, time, place, people, favorite foods
  • Miscellaneous: Cooking, restaurants, snacks, traditions, foods you would miss if you were away, etc.
• First Draft: Write a rough draft of your essay, but focus more on content than on grammatical correctness.
• Editing: Read your draft and check the items listed below.
  • Organization: Does each paragraph have a main topic? Are the sentences within each paragraph related to each other
  • Cohesion and Style: Have you connected some of the sentences by using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions? Have you varied your sentence structure by starting some sentences with adverbials?
• Spelling and Grammar
  • Check the verb forms (present tense and infinitive).
    ex.) Jeg pleier å spise brødskiver med ost til frokost.
  • Check noun forms
    ex.) Jeg liker å spise epler, bananer og appelsiner.
  • Check prepositions
    ex.) Vi spiser ofte sammen med familien vår.
• Second draft: Rewrite your description now and make the changes you worked on during the editing process. Submit to your instructor.