Three Grammar Writing Exercises

EXERCISE 1

1- The team won its game. Did you win yours, too?

2- They left their books there.

3- I hear you're about to graduate.

4- Its nice that they're friendly.

5- Although I get a lot of colds, I feel alright now

6- Who's prettier than you?

7- Are you tired? I'm out of (breathe) (breath),(too) (to) (two).

8- Run back and forth from here to there.

9- You're about to lose your book.

10- Everyone will accept the prize except you.

11- Do you know whether or not he will giveme the prize.

12- Many people chose to live in large cities.

13- Is the doctor through with myexam?

14- What effect does the school principal have on you?

15- What did he advise you to do? Did you take his advice?

16- There are a lot of your friends in the boat.

17- I will buy a book by Ray Bradbury.

Exercise 2

Score: (80%) 12/15

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Exercise 3

Correct 34/40

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Bye Bye Edward :)

I would like to pitch the idea of adding a new character to the next movie in the Twilight franchise. I think that since the Twilight is such a huge world wide success that we can go wrong with what ever we do to it, so if we add another character it can only help it become a bigger success! So I know you've all been wondering who I'm going to add to it and i would like top add none other that Buffy the vampire Slayer!
Buffy would be an amazing character to add to the "talented" cast. She would be basically the same as she was in her own show when it was on. Buffy will be a funny, happy, out going and strong woman in he early twenties that makes funny puns. She will have long dirty blond hair, lightly tanned skin and will have a beautiful face, and that brings me to the new thing, who she will be played by? We will ask none other than Sarah Michelle Gellar to reprise her role as Buffy.
We will bring Buffy to play in the movie by saying that she told that there is a Vampire there that she must slay. She will arrive at Forks, Washington and attend school there so that she can blend in to learn more about the Vampire she must kill and how she must do it. Then Buffy will find out that the vampire she must kill is Edward Cullen. She soon learns that he lives with a family of vampires and has an ugly and dozy girlfriend named Bella, and watches them throughout the day and night and finds out that his family and girlfriend will be no problem to get by to kill Edward. So late one night she goes to the his house to kill him and she sneaks past his family easily then is caught by Bella who says "Why do you want to hurt Edward?" and she responds with "Have you met him?", so then she swiftly and skillfully drop kicks Bella in the face. Finally she gets to Edwards room and then stakes him! Then they all live happily ever after in a Edward free world!
I know you may think that this idea may not work but look at it this way. It would still bring in a lot of money, like all the Twilight fans and now Buffy fans would come see it, you could double the merchandising, now Team Edward, Jacob and Buffy shirts and not to mention all the toys that can be made! Also it would get a lot of buzz from people for probably being soo controversial because it doesn't follow the books and all, and that would give it a lot of publicity.
So if you want to add a character to any movie it be Buffy to Twilight. Whether it be to make the story line better, getting some new fans or to get some publicity. I think my way is the best way to go with the Twilight Franchise!

The Origins of Lady Gaga

Character An alien from outer space
Setting a city park
Time sometime in December
Challenge someone has just reached an important goal

Lady Gaga is an international super star that has hit the world by storm, but do you know her story, were she came from? Well most people don't so i thought i would inform the world about her and where she came from.


Of course wikipedia has all its information and facts about her but I'm going to tell you the truth. Well it all started about 5 years ago in mid December. Lady Gaga was on her home planet of Googala, which is located on the out skirts of the solar system, where she worked in an office that monitors the solar systems activities. During the years she worked, there was a planet that she was fascinated by, and that planet was Earth. So whenever she went to work she would watch our planet in amazement, from all the people, shows, music, different things that we do and especially Oprah! So after about 2 years of watching us she made the decision to leave her planet to move here, she packed all of her belongings and left. (That's why everything she owns is "Out of this World") Then she ventured across the universe searching for Earth. In late February 2008 she finally arrived, landing in Central Park, New York, she reached her life goal, she made it to Earth! Then she got a record deal and became a huge SUCCESS!!! :D


Not only is Lady Gaga a huge international super star, but she is also an alien with an amazing story. So now I hope that I have answer all your questions about Lady Gaga and life have been answered, but there is one question that cant be answered.... and that is where did Snooki come from ??




The End :)

How to Write a Newspaper Article

"How to Write a Newspaper Article" is a simple and basic article, it starts off by telling you to decide what your article will be about, then to research the topic of the article. It gives you advise on how to start it off, like with a question or something unexpected to grab the readers attention. Then it tells you questions to answer in the first paragraph who, what, when, where, why. When describing it tells you to give details, such as give quotes and to use verbs to make it sound more exciting. For the last paragraph you should sumit up and try to end it with quote or something catchy. After you have done all of this it tells you to end it with 'By ....'. Also it could be helpful to include picture or illustration. Then proof-read your article and edit where needed. And always make sure to SPELL CHECK !!!!!!!

Milkshake Murderer

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/10/hk.kissel/index.html

The "Hong Kong's 'milkshake murderer' to get retrial" is about Nancy Kissel the "Milkshake Murderer" and how she killed her husband by giving him a cocktail of drugs disguised as a milkshake. It also dicusses all the trials that she's been throught in the last 7 years. I think that this article by CNN is very effective,for several reasons like how the name "Hong Kong's 'milkshake murderer' to get retrial" grabs your attention. So then you read it and it informs you about the whole thing going on with the trail. The thing I liked most about the article is probley the name of it because it sounded so strange and out of the ordinary. I aslo like how the story was very informative and interesting,unlike most news articles. The part Im going to take and use in my own writing is to always give it an intresting title and to keep it intresting and informative for the readers.

Writing Inventory

Sometimes in my spare time I like to write stories and short stories for fun but they never amount to anything. Scott Westerfeld, James Patterson, L.J. Smith and Charlaine Harris are all some of my favorite authors, and my favorite type of story is fantasy and science fiction because I like a surreal world that I can image and explore. I like writing short stories because they're fun and creative and you get to make a little world, characters and a story for them all to follow. I find perswasive writing is a little more difficult to do. I get my idea's for writing from books i read, movies and TV I watch, and also i get some of my idea's from the news and whats really going onin the world. A piece of writing that i take great pride in is the first story i wrote in writting class which is also the first post on my blog. When ever I do a writing assignment Iusually write about two to three drafts, so I can organize my idea's and so its easier to read and understand. I think that my strenghts in writing is my abbility to create a story line and characters. My weakness as a writer is probly my lackthere of skills with puncuation and spelling. When writing I like to write on things that are happing in the media,for example if I see a sad story in the news about hardship in life, I'd write a story that may have some of those hardships in life I heard of. My goals as a writer this semester is to learn some new skills and figure out if I like to pursue writing as a hobby! :)

Talon Letter of Application

Michael McNeil

February 10, 2010

Mr. Allan Carter
Teacher/Website Manager
Blackville Talon Blog
12 MacLaggan Drive
Blackville, New Brunswick
E9B 1Y4

Dear Mr. Carter

Re : BLOG WRITER

I am a current student at Blackville School. I have been looking for a job that will help with my writing abbilites, and i saw your blog and i am very intresteed in working inn the Entertainment section of your blog.

I would like to have a meeting where we could meet and discuss me getting a job. I have some past experince in writting,and i am a very current person in the Media and would be well sooted for this job. I have enclosed my résumé with further details.

I will call your Administrative Assistant on February 17, 2010 to see when we can have our meeting. I can also be reached at 555-1234 if you prefer to contact me before then.

Yours Truly

Michael McNeil

Resume

Picture Perfect Moment

She walks around the empty house, no pictures on the walls, no decorations up, no kettle whistling on the stove. Just an empty old house creaking and moaning from the February winds. Everything is packed away, anxiously waiting by the door for the movers to come and get it later in the afternoon. To be taken to the retirement home where she will now be living.

Her heart had been crushed for weeks from when all her children came over to the house and told her that they were putting her in a retirement home. They fought and bickered for hours with her saying it would be better, and they just wanted to make sure that she would be safe and to make sure that she didn’t have to worry about bills, and then ending it saying it was because they lover her. But she thought how could they love her if their trying to get rid of me by putting her in the care of complete strangers!!!

Today was the day she was leaving. The house she bought for her kids, to raise them to do everything humanly possible to give them the best life she could, and this is how they repay her? By kicking her out of her own house. She knew it was a couple of hours till she leaves so she went and sat on her rocking chair by the door to wait.

Then she noticed a picture on the floor so she leans over to get it, her old body wasn’t as good as it once was, it cracked as she reached. When she got it she pushed her glasses up to examine it better, it was a picture she remembered taking of her three girls walking out of the door yard, in light snow that gently crested them as they walked towards the road. She remembered how she had taken that about twenty years ago when her kids were all teenagers, she remembered how much she cared for them and how she raised them to be good people, then she wondered how they could be doing this to her? Then like a wave crashing in to the shore it struck her why they were doing this! They were doing it for her, because they did love and care about her, because like on that winter day she made sure they were all warm, happy and safe, they were doing that for her! She started to tear up once she realized how wrong she had been.

The next day once she was all situated at the home she call all her kids, to apologize for her anger towards them the past weeks and then about the picture she found, which was now hung up on the wall in a beautiful frame in her new room. Then at the end of each phone call she told them something that she wished she said more often, “I love you”.