diumenge, 4 de març del 2012

A newspaper report

STEP 1- Think
·Classroom      ·Police
·Car                 ·Injured
·Joy riders       ·Prison
·Crash             ·Destroy
·Children        ·Luck

STEP 2- Use a dictionary

Joy riders: Persona que es passeja amb un cotxe robat.

STEP 3- Plan

What happened?  Car crash into a classroom.

Where?  Ruiz Amado's school in Castelló d'Empúries.

When?  At midnight on Wednesday 14th of December.

Why?  Because joy riders are a problem in this area.


STEP 4- Write

Paragraph 1:

Yesterday, at midnight of Wednesday 14th of December, joy riders crashed into a classroom in Ruiz Amado's school in Castelló d'Empúries.

Paragraph 2:

At midnight, neighbours heard a loud noise. All of them came out of their houses. They saw a car crashed into a classroom.
In the car there were three joy riders. One was badly injured. One neighbour rang the police and the ambulance.
The police took two joy riders to prison and the other went to a hospital.
Fortunately they weren't children there, but the classroom was destroyed and class was cancelled.

Paragraph 3:

One neighbour, Mrs Martínez declared “What luck! The accident was at night and children weren't in school”.

Paragraph 4:

Joy riding is a problem in this area. The police are working so this accident doesn't happen again.


STEP 5- Check

· Was the paragraph 1 summarize the story? Yes
· Have you included any adverbs in paragraph 2? Yes
· Have you used several reporting verbs in paragraphs 2 and 3? Yes
· Is your spelling and grammar? Yes

STEP 6- Correct

CLASS IS CANCELLED


Yesterday, at midnight of Wednesday 14th of December, joy riders crashed into a classroom in Ruiz Amado's school in Castelló d'Empúries.
 At midnight, neighbours heard a loud noise. All of them came out of their houses. They saw a car crashed into a classroom.
In the car there were three joy riders. One was badly injured. One neighbour rang the police and the ambulance.
The police took two joy riders to prison and the other went to a hospital.
Fortunately they weren't children there, but the classroom was destroyed and class was cancelled.
 One neighbour, Mrs Martínez declared “What luck! The accident was at night and children weren't in school”.
 Joy riding is a problem in this area. The police are working so this accident doesn't happen again.

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