Secondary Plus

Writing Diagnostic – My Favourite Place

Name: Bella Class: ______________ Teacher: ______________

1. What is your favourite place? If you have two or three, choose one of them at random.
Write down exactly where it is.
My favourite place is Da Lat

2. Note down things you remember about it, related to the five senses.

sight:pinewood
smell: of flowers
taste: many different food the Vietnamese pizza is the favourite
sound: have some quite but always noisy
touch:

3. What people do you associate with it, if any?

My family and my friend

4. What objects do you associate with it, if any?

I always think about the scarf

5. Anything else that’s special about this place for you?

My father and my mother had their wedding at there

6. Write down some adjectives to describe how you feel when you’re there.

Calm, great, enjoy,comfortable

7. Write down some adjectives to describe how you feel when you’re not there.
Bored

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8. Plan your description using the framework below.

Title: My Favourite Place

Part 1: Introduction/details of the location (see 1 above).
Part 2: Detailed physical description of the whole place (see 2–5 above).
Part 3: Information about when you first went there/how often you go.
Part 4: Your personal feelings about the place, and the reasons for that (see 6-7 above).
Part 5: Conclusion, summing up the place and your feelings.

To choose my favourite place is very hard. But the first place come to my mind is Da
Lat which is the biggest city in Central Highlands, Viet Nam.
One of the most thing that I like in Da Lat is the view. Da lat is very famous about the
pinewood tree so when you go on any road, you can see a lot of pinewoods in 2
side of the road. You also can see lots of flowers in it. It makes Da Lat has a good
smell than anywhere that I’ve gone to. Da Lat is the favourite place of many
young people so it’s always noisy. I usually go Da lat with my family in the
holiday but sometimes I’ll go with my friend to celebrate their birthday. Da lat is
such a cold city. Everytime I go to it, I need to take my scarf and my gloves. But I
always lost it. This is the special place to me and my family. My mom and my
dad have a wedding in a romantic jungle in there. I really admire about them that
they have a best wedding that I’ve seen. And I remember that my first place that
I’ve travel to is Da Lat too. So Da Lat has many memories to me and my
So my family always go to Da Lat when we’re bored and stressed. I always like the
forest in Da lat the most because it very quiet in their so I feel comfortable and
relax.
Da Lat is the best city that I’ve been to. It have a very special place in my heart so
I wish that Da Lat will be like this forever.

Adapted from http://education.hill.continuumbooks.com © David A. Hill (2010) Resources for Teaching English 14–16. London: Continuum.

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