December 2015

Katie Melua - If You Were A Sailboat

The World

TO START AN ESSAY YOU HAVE TO …

TO START AN ESSAY YOU HAVE TO …

• Organize your ideas: introduction, development, and conclusion.
• Use simple sentences to be understandable (subject-verb-complements).
• Use connectors.
• Use the verb tenses you have learnt. Every time you use a verb, you have to use its subject.
• You have to think about the verbal tense you are going to use (present, past, future).
• Use a dictionary not a translator.
• Write directly sentences in English; try not to translate from Spanish.
• Read and reread your essay at the end.

Remember:

• Days of the week and months of the year  capital letters.
• Languages and nationalities  capital letters
• In the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening, at night
• Tomorrow morning
• On Mondays
• In July
• In 1996
• By bus, by car, by plane, on foot.
• Once, twice, three times, …
• After / before
• Then
• Adjectives before nouns (a big house)