UNIDADES TECNOLÓGICAS DE SANTANDER

DEPARTAMENTO DE IDIOMAS
FORMATO PARA DILIGENCIAMIENTO DE ACTIVIDAD 1

LAST NAME:
FIRST NAME:
GROUP:
SUBJECT:

WRITING PRODUCTION (15%)

Topic: A TRAVEL EMAIL

When you travel you can get to do and see things that are not common in your
everyday life, that’s why travelling is so exciting. However, it also has some downsides
like for example being far away from people you love. Fortunately, thanks to
technology even though if you are separated by thousand of kilometers you can talk
and even see your loved ones just by touching a button. Imagine that at this moment
you have been in your dreamed destination for three days and you want to tell your
beloved ones what you have experienced, what you’ve done, seen and tried. Write an
email letting them know your travel experience so far, include where you are, what
activities you have done, what food you have tried and what you have seen.

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Write a paragraph about a trip you’re Things to consider:
making right now, you’ve been in your ▪ Use words from the boxes or your
dreamed vacation for three days and still own ideas.
have another day there. In an email tell to ▪ use present perfect, simple past,
a friend, relative or your partner: where tourist activities and attractions,
are you? When did you arrive? Who did opinion adjectives and opinion
you travel with? what activities have you phrases.
done? Tourist activities or extreme ▪ Avoid copy paste from websites!
sports? What food or drinks have you
tried? What have you seen? Buildings,
animals, tourist or natural attractions?
Write between 100-110 words.
Finally, pay special attention to punctuation, capitalization, tenses, and spelling.

USEFUL VOCABULARY
Tourist activities: Participial adjectives:
➢ climb [a mountain] ➢ fascinating
➢ go sightseeing in [Italy] ➢ thrilling
➢ go to the top of [the Eiffel Tower] ➢ frightening
➢ try [a kind of food] ➢ disgusting
➢ take a tour of [a city]
➢ take pictures of [the Taj Mahal]