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In your notebook, write a story about something that happened to you. It can be true or made up.
Choose from the topics below, and include the information indicated. Use adjectives, adverbs, and
the transition words and phrases from the box.
NARRATIVE TRANSITIONS
When you write a story, use words and
Topics Include:
phrases that help the reader understand the
something funny when the story starts
•  sequence of events. This way, the reader will
know when things happened, and when the
something scary where it takes place
• 
action is changing. We call these transition
something strange who the characters are
•  words and phrases.
something exciting • what happened • One morning / Last week / When I was
young / A few years ago / It all started . . .
G Exchange papers with a partner. Identify mistakes. • Just then / Soon after / A moment
Give suggestions for improving their writing. later / After a while / As soon as . . .
• Suddenly / Immediately / Almost as
quickly / A day later / The following
H Complete the presentation notes with the correct evening . . .
words from the box.

boring disadvantages exhausting fashion designer glamorous responsible

FASHION
SO YOU WANT TO BE A ... DESIGNER ?

The Advantages The disadvantages The Requirements

You need to be . . .
1. It’s exciting. 3. It’s exhausting . 5. creative.
You can be adventurous with Designers work long hours, You can’t be boring in
your designs! nights and weekends, too. fashion design. Be different!

2. It’s glamorous . 4. It’s demanding. 6. a hard worker.

You could work with famous It can be difficult to please your You must be responsible
people, like movie stars. customers. and efficient in this job.

I Write a presentation about a job that interests you. Follow the suggestions in the tip box and the
model in H.

CREATING A PRESENTATION
Do . . . Don’t . . .
write short sentences. put more than three points on a slide.
use clear headings. use colors or designs that are distracting.
use bullet points or numbers. make the writing too small or hard to read.
mark important points in bold or another color. have more than eight lines of text on a slide.

SO YOU WANT TO BE A . . . ECONOMIST ?

ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES I LIKE THAT

-There is a lot of
work and work field
-Investments
-It is very heavy I like that the career is
-a lot of mathematics very diverse, you learn
a little of everything you
-you don't have time
know about new cultures
or languages as well as
their economy.

J Exchange papers with a partner. Identify mistakes. Give suggestions for improving their writing.

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