Ex. 27.12: Health Habits – Writing

HEALTH HABITS. Write a three-paragraph essay about the health of a friend or family member. Write approx. 15-20 sentences and be prepared to present your description in class.

• Pre-Writing: Look back at the vocabulary and texts related to health and health habits in Ch. 25-27. Make a brief outline for three paragraphs:
  • name, age, relationship to you, school, work, leisure activities
  • general health, illness, injury
  • health habits: stress, diet, exercise, sleep, drinking, smoking, habits to change
• 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?
    ex.) Han drikker mye fordi…
    ex.) Hvis hun ikke får nok søvn,…
    ex.) Selv om han ikke trener,…
    ex.) Hun burde begynne å… fordi…
    ex.) Når han har mye stress på skolen,…
    ex.) Han burde slutte å …fordi…
    Have you varied your sentence structure by starting some sentences with adverbials?
  • Spelling and Grammar
    • Inversion after adverbials
      ex.) Hun trener ofte. Derfor er hun i god form.
    • Inversion after dependent clauses
      ex.) Når han har tid, trener han.
    • Adverbs of quantity:
      ex.) Han trener mye.
    • Adverbs of frequency:
      ex.) Hun jogger sjelden.
• Second draft: Rewrite your description now and make the changes you worked on during the editing process. Submit to your instructor.