Ex. 20.16: Home Description – Writing
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HOME DESCRIPTION. Write a two-paragraph description of your home. Vary your style by starting some sentences with adverbials and by including at least two sentences with subordinating conjunctions ans dependent clauses. Write at approx. 15-20 sentences and be prepared to present your description in class.
- Pre-Writing: Make a brief outline for two paragraphs about your home using the drawings you made as a point of departure.
- Type of home, location, yard, and outdoor spaces
- Floors, rooms, activities, favorite rooms, positive and negative features
- 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 conjunctions such as og (and), men (but), fordi (because), som (who, which), når (when), hvis (if), selv om (even though), etc.?
Have you varied your sentence structure by starting some sentences with adverbials?
Do some of your sentences begin with an adverbial or a dependent clause?
- Spelling and Grammar
- Check the noun forms.
ex.) Det er tre soverom, to bad og to stuer i andre etasje. - Check inversion after adverbials.
ex.) I hagen er det mange trær.
Check inversion after dependent clauses.
ex.) Da jeg var liten, bodde jeg i Oslo.
- Check the noun forms.
- Second draft: Rewrite your description now and make the changes you worked on during the editing process. Submit to your instructor.
Correct AnswersIncorrect - Pre-Writing: Make a brief outline for two paragraphs about your home using the drawings you made as a point of departure.