My Favorite Place

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clean quiet spicy busy
elegant dry huge relaxed awful wide
bright enjoyable warm narrow
delicious exciting humid sweet cold sour
congested hot salty crowded
fragrant loud

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comfortable beautiful

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4. Rewrite the sentences. Replace the underlined words and phrases with

synonyms.

bright huge beautiful delicious

enjoyable fragrant friendly

1. There are many fun things to do in my neighborhood.
There are many enjoyable things to do in my neighborhood.

2. There’s a really big park in my neighborhood.
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3. The flowers are very sweet-smelling.
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4. My room is red and yellow. It’s really colorful.
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5. Mr. Chang is a nice man.
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6. My sister is pretty.
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7. This salad is very good.
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5. Write five sentences that use There is/ There are.
1. There are many interesting things to do in my neighborhood.
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1. Read the passage about Francisco’s neighborhood.

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Organization: Main Idea and Details.

2. Look at the reading. Complete the chart. Write the topic sentence and
two more supporting sentences for each paragraph.

Topic Sentence Supporting Sentences

There are many enjoyable things to do There’s a huge, beautiful park near my

in my neighborhood. apartment. There are many trees in the park.

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There are twenty-four stores in the mall.
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Some people are young, and some people are old.
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3. Find the topic sentence and rewrite the paragraph below.
My school is great.

(1)There are many nice, big classrooms. (2)It is clean and bright. (3)I study
English in the park. (4)I like my school a lot. (5)It’s a good place to study. (6)The
teachers are very friendly and helpful.

My school is great.
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4. Look at the picture and notes below. Then use some information from the
notes to write a paragraph describing your favorite place. You can use
the provided writing template to help you create the paragraph

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Topic sentence Notes:
General Information
Details My favorite place is Siam Paragon.
Location: Pathumwan District, Bangkok
Conclusion How to go there: By BTS (Siam station), By bus
How the place looks/ smells/ sounds/ feels:
crowded , busy, noisy, exciting, beautiful, modern, large
What people do there:
Go shopping, have lunch or dinner, have meetings, go to the
cinema
Why you like this place:
Convenient meeting place, has many good restaurants, has many
stores, nice and modern movie theaters
Whenever I have free time, I usually come to this place with my
family and friends.

Writing Template
My favorite place is _____________________. It is located in _________________.

It_________________________________________________________________________.
The building is______________________________________________________________.
There is/ are ________________________________________________________________.
The people ____________________________________________________________.
I like this place because _____________________________________________________.
One of my favorite things to do in this place is__________________________________.
Another activity that I enjoy here is _______________________________________________.
Whenever I am free, I _______________________________________________________.

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I. Choose your favorite place and make a list of information.

Notes

Topic Sentence:

General Information Place:
Location:

How to go there:

Details How the place looks/ smells/ sounds/ feels:

What people do there:

Why you like this place:
Conclusion

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II. Use the information from your notes to write a well-organized
descriptive paragraph.

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Name:………………………..……..….Last name:………………………………….Class:……….NO.……….

Exercise: Your Favorite Place

Direction: Write a descriptive paragraph of your selected Favorite Place. Your
paragraph must include: title, topic sentence, supporting details and
conclusion.

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References
Blanton, L. L. (2008). Step-by-step writing : a standards-based approach. Australia:

Heinle/Cengage learning.
Zemach, E. D. & Islam, C. (2011). Writing Paragraphs: From Sentence to Paragraph. Oxford, UK:

Macmillam.
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