Unit 1: Writing Assignment

In this assignment, you are going to write a descriptive paragraph.  As you prepare your paragraph,

think about the Unit Question, “Why does something become popular?” Choose one of the topics

below for your paragraph.

1. Write a paragraph about a trend that interests you and why it is popular.  For example, consider a

trend in cars, food, or technology.

Criteria Marks

The paragraph contains at least 8 new words from unit 2. BOLD them. 5

The paragraph contains at least 3 sentences with Present Continuous. Underline them. 5

The paragraph contains at least 3 Verb-noun collocations. Italicize them. 5

The paragraph contains information from Reading, listening or discussion as examples. 5

The paragraph has a strong topic sentence, subtopics, details, and concluding sentence. 5

The paragraph contains at least 5 compound sentences (and, but, so). 5

All the sentences support one topic and are well linked. 5

No more than 5 errors in spelling, capitalization and punctuation. 5

No more than 5 errors in basic grammar. (such as past and present tenses, subject verb 10

agreement, plural and singular nouns, infinitive and gerunds … etc)

Total score 50