0.6+-+WRITING,+an+art+or+a+craft?

**WRITING, an art or a craft?** **I've decided to create this new page to help you with writing and to try and solve some of your problems. So, practice, practice, practice! :))**   **1. Now check Anthony Horowitz's writing tips and the "Yes, Prime Minister" video and say who you feel about them.** media type="youtube" key="DT_uLF1G3ws" width="253" height="210" media type="youtube" key="I9NifqJyDMI" width="252" height="210" **2. First writing activity to practise - "How to interpret a cartoon" **  2. 1. Check the following page  2. 2. visit the sites [|Cartoons for the classroom] and [|Describing Cartoons] 2. 3. watch the video on the following site. [|Interpreting cartoons] **I believe you're now ready to analyse and comment on the following cartoon and write about 60 words on it.**  **How would you stand on the following motion: Does the burqa protect Muslim women's rights or tramples their freedom? ** **Check the following materials, will you??:)) ** **3. Third writing activity to practise - Obituaries ** **a. Again, first check the work done in class, will you? ** **b. If an obituary is a means of honoring LIFE, how about listening to a song and remembering someone I deeply love and is no longer among us. THANKS, MUM!:)) ** media type="youtube" key="wW3u9-ytxFY" width="339" height="280" **<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Would you also like to honour someone?... HOW? ** **<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Let's analyse a few examples of obituaries from very different walks of life. Please, follow me and enjoy the ride! Then, don't forget that the obituary you are supposed to write has to be much shorter and differently organized. ** =[|Danielle Miterrand's Obituary]= [|Steve Jobs obituary] [|Kurt Cobain's obituary] [|Heath Ledger's obituary] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I've abridged Heath Ledger's example. Read my notes and good luck for the test. I'm sure you're going to write an excellent obituary :)) <span style="background-color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">** 4. Fourth writing activity to practise - Speeches ** <span style="background-color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">** So, here are a few sites to help you if you still have some doubts.))[|Speechwriting1] **  <span style="background-color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">** If political speeches are your problem, a few more examples [|Top 25 Political Speeches] **  <span style="background-color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">** And finally a few tips on "How to Give a Good Speech". HAVE FUN:P ** <span style="background-color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">media type="youtube" key="ffyEFL7Feag" width="425" height="350"
 * <span style="background-color: #dc5b5b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">2. Second writing activity to practise - "Opinion Essays" **
 * <span style="background-color: #dc5b5b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">a. First, check what we've done in class, OK? [[file:WOMEN'S DISCRIMINATION_Opinionessays_guidelines.doc]] **
 * <span style="background-color: #dc5b5b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">b. Secondly, sth different: ARE YOU FOR OR AGAINST THE BURQA? **