Creative Writing Competition

In our school, we had to participate in a Writing Competition in which we had to write a story, following the instructions given in a photocopy. During the Language class, our teacher Andrea, told us to pick one of the options given to write a story about it. It should have a limit of words of 180. So I chose number 1, and I started writing…
(My teacher congratulated on the use of Past Perfect)

Newlands Creative Writing Competition
Instructions: Choose one of the following subjects to write about.
Intermediate

1)    Write a story which contains this: “I will never forget that day”

2)    How did he dare do that to me?

3)    We should be more concerned about the dangers of social networking.


Yesterday I had the worst day of my life. I was just starting as an ordinary morning. I was going to have an exam that evening, however, I wasn’t prepared! I couldn’t study as I’d been in a party the day before and I’d arrived late and tired. So, while I was having breakfast and putting on my school clothes I was desperately studying everything I needed to know.
When I arrived at school, the class had already started. I sat down and I started copying and studying at the same time. To make matters worse, the teacher scolded me for arriving late. After that, I spent all day, class after class trying to complete my summary, and more than one teacher scolded me.
At midday, I left the summary under the desk, so I could have it ready for revise it before the exam.  However, when the time came, I had lost my summary. It had disappeared from the desk. I will never forget that day. All that effort and work just for nothing, down the drain! That horrible sensation that you know you’re going to fail no matter what. I know I didn’t do it well, but I still don’t know what happened to my summary…

Useful Informal Language

Hi. Here, our job was to give examples, or phrases, about the language that we should use when we are talking in an informal way. For example, in an informal Email... So with my mate, Santiago, we made a Conceptual Map about this so... hope you like it...