Corporación Universitaria del Caribe “CECAR”

Bachelor in Education
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Subject: Writing Strategies in English
Writing and Essay and a News report
WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPHS

STUDENT: CLARA ELVIRA MERCADO PATERNINA

CC: 64720500

III SEMESTRE

LIC: INGLES

TEACHER:

ELECTIVA I

CORPORACION UNIVERSITARIA DEL CARIBE CECAR

SAHAGUN CORDOBA

2020

Author: Diana Margarita Araque

Adapted by: Rubén Mauricio Muñoz – Elsy Marina Cantor
 Corporación Universitaria del Caribe “CECAR”
Bachelor in Education
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Subject: Writing Strategies in English
Writing and Essay and a News report
In this section you are going to plan, write, revise and edit an Essay and a News report on the
following Topic: 

¬ Describe two things that improved the quality of life in

your city or a city you know. ¬

- First Part: Writing Descriptive Paragraphs

1. Brainstorming: Think of a city you know well that is better to live in now than it used to be.
What was it like in the past? What is it like now? Think about architecture, environmental
issues, public transportation job opportunities, etc.

Complete the Chart with your ideas: 

City: Sampués sucre colombia

-In the past: Tenía pocos Today: es una ciudad que se

habitantes, poco comercio, era caracteriza por ser muy comercial,
menos ruidosa, había poca cuenta con muchos colegios
contaminación, menos transporte públicos y privados, tiene flota de
público, el agua para el consumo buses y taxis para transportar a
humano no era tratada o potable, las personas, cuenta con
había pocas oportunidades de supermercados de cadenas,
estudio, la gerente se existen sedes universitarias donde
caracterizaba por su amabilidad los habitantes ya tienen más
con todos los que llegaran a acceso a la educación superior,
visitar el pueblo, la mayoría de las tiene depósitos de agua aptas
casas eran construidas de para el consumo humano, cuanta
bareque o material del medio. con muchos centros médicos, y la
infraestructura está muy
adelantada hay muchos edificios.

2. Applying: Write about past conditions in the city you thought about in your brainstorming
notes. Write the affirmative sentences and two negative sentences. Use simple past and used
to.
Affirmative:

Author: Diana Margarita Araque

Adapted by: Rubén Mauricio Muñoz – Elsy Marina Cantor
 Corporación Universitaria del Caribe “CECAR”
Bachelor in Education
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Subject: Writing Strategies in English
Writing and Essay and a News report
1. Sus habitantes Vivian más tranquilos
2. Las personas Vivian por mas tiempo
3. La comida era más saludable

Negative:

1. Menos servicio de salud

2.menos acceso a la educación

3. Planning: Follow the steps to make notes for your paragraphs

Step 1. Write the name of the city you are going to discuss in the chart below. Look at your
brainstorming notes and choose the most important things that make this city a better place to
live today. Write these two things in the outline.

Step 2. Complete the thesis statement in the outline

Step 3. Write topic sentences for each of your body paragraphs. In your topic sentences, use
the key words in the reasons that you circled in your thesis statement.

Step 4. Now write two (or more) examples or details for the supporting ideas in each body
paragraph.

Step 5. Think of some general information about your city where is it located? How many
people live there? What do most people know about there? Include this information in the
paragraphs to support your ideas.

4. Make a Draft: Complete the following chart with your ideas from the previous steps.

City:
Sampués sucre colombia

Two things that make it a better place to live:

1. es una ciudad muy comercial
2.hay mejores oportunidades para la vida

Thesis statement: The quality of life in en Sampués is better today than it was in the past
because ha mejorado la calidad de Vida and la education.

Author: Diana Margarita Araque

Adapted by: Rubén Mauricio Muñoz – Elsy Marina Cantor
 Corporación Universitaria del Caribe “CECAR”
Bachelor in Education
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Subject: Writing Strategies in English
Writing and Essay and a News report

Body paragraph 1: Topic sentence: el comercio is one thing that has improved life in
Sampués.

Supporting idea 1: Sampués cuenta con muchas artesanías

Supporting idea 2: cuenta con muchos centros comerciales

Supporting idea 3: muchas personas devengan el sustento diario de las ventas de los productos
que elaboran

Body paragraph 2: Topic sentence: salud has also improved life in Sampués.

Supporting idea 1: cuenta con mucho centros de salud

Supporting idea 2:cuenta con depósitos de agua potable

Supporting idea 3: cuenta con sistemas de alcantarillado y recolección de basuras

Ideas for introduction:

Sampués es un municipio de colombia, ubicado al oeste del departamento de sucre colombia

subregión de la sabana su población es de aproximadamente 38.000 habitantes, con
temperaturas de 28 a 35 grados centígrados, fundada en el año 1610 por el encomendero
español Alfonso de padilla Acosta, la principal característica de su gente es que son muy
emprendedores lo que lo hace un municipio muy comercial.

5. Writing and revising: Use the previous draft to answer in the following chart the given
questions, and then revise you writing using the editing checklist below.

Sampués es un municipio de colombia, ubicado al oeste del departamento de sucre colombia

subregión de la sabana su población es de aproximadamente 38.000 habitantes, con
temperaturas de 28 a 35 grados centígrados, fundada en el año 1610 por el encomendero
español Alfonso de padilla Acosta, la principal característica de su gente es que son muy
emprendedores lo que lo hace un municipio muy comercial.

Author: Diana Margarita Araque

Adapted by: Rubén Mauricio Muñoz – Elsy Marina Cantor
 Corporación Universitaria del Caribe “CECAR”
Bachelor in Education
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Subject: Writing Strategies in English
Writing and Essay and a News report

Hay mejores oportunidades de vida, en cuanto a la infraestructura hay muchos edificios,

cuenta con centros deportivos para la recreación de las los habitantes la gente del campo
viene a vender los productos cosechados y por ende la comida es muy sana todavía, la
mayoría de la gente se dedican a trabajo de las artesanías de ahí proviene la economía, en
cuanto a la salud a mejorado mucho cuenta con redes de hospitales, sistemas de recolección
de basuras, servicio de alcantarillado, hay muchos centros educativos tanto privados como
públicos, sedes universitarias que funcionan a distancia ha sido un municipio que ha ido
evolucionando poco a poco con los años y ha sido gracias a sus habitantes que han hecho de el
un municipio lleno de oportunidades para todos rebosante de alegría y paz.

Cabe resaltar que una de las grandes ventajas es que por este municipio pasa la troncal de
occidente lo que lo hace privilegiado ya que por ende presenta gran fluidez de tránsito, y
comunica a los demás departamentos de la costa con el interior del país.

Editing Checklist YES NO

Are all the words spelled correctly? X
Is the first word of every sentence capitalized? X
Does every sentence end with the correct X
punctuation?
Do your subjects and verbs agree? X

Did you use the simple past and used to correctly? X

Are other verb tenses correct? X

Author: Diana Margarita Araque

Adapted by: Rubén Mauricio Muñoz – Elsy Marina Cantor
 Corporación Universitaria del Caribe “CECAR”
Bachelor in Education
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Subject: Writing Strategies in English
Writing and Essay and a News report

6. Final Writing: Use the previous draft and to answer and the last chart, write your essay and
after that write your final essay in a blog of blogger with a minimal extension one and a half
page. Paste here the link of blogger of your essay. Chek it this manual of Blogger:
http://red.ilce.edu.mx/sitios/proyectos/voces_abuelos_pri13/manual_blogger.pdf

- Link blogger for your essay:

https://sampuesgentedeproreso.blogspot.com/

- Second Part: Writing a News Report

1. Check again your brainstorming activity and the first chart of your own ideas about improved
quality of life and write a news report. The following is an explanation of how to do it:

a) Choose the same topic of your city and the quality of life there.

b) The news report must be contained all its structure in a page of word.

c) Consider this model for writing it:

A News report structure

From https://www.vskills.in/certification/blog/structure-of-a-news-report/

A news report follows a pattern in reporting as well as editing. Every newspaper might
have its own style of writing, but a general format followed by all the newspapers at base levels
is systematically divided into several parts. Roughly speaking a news story structure follows 1-
2-3-4 steps, that is:

1. The lead. What is the most important news? How can you write it in the clearest way
and make it interesting too?

2. Elaborate on the lead. Two, three, four or five paragraphs that explain support and
amplify lead

3. Key background and context of event, if needed; information that helps readers
understands more about the news they are reading.

Author: Diana Margarita Araque

Adapted by: Rubén Mauricio Muñoz – Elsy Marina Cantor
 Corporación Universitaria del Caribe “CECAR”
Bachelor in Education
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Subject: Writing Strategies in English
Writing and Essay and a News report
4. More elaboration of the news, in descending order of importance.

The main impetus lies in the body of the report. Once the introduction has been written,
there are rules that must be applied to any following paragraphs. Each following paragraph
should be about 30 words long which will help to present information in shorter doses and
maintain interest longer. Each paragraph should aim to be as independent of the other
paragraphs as far as possible (inverted pyramid structure). The journalist must present
information in descending order of importance. To get a deeper understanding, a news story or
report is divided into 5 parts namely;

 Headline – tells what the story is about

 Byline – shows who wrote the story

 Lead – tells the most important facts (5 W’s)

 Body – contains more information and details

 Ending – gives something to think about

* Here is a sample article which consists of all these parts for easy understanding:

 Headline – Train accident forces evacuation

 Byline – By M J Saleem

 Lead – The Banglore bound Muzaffarpur- Yesvantpur train derailed causing twenty
deaths on Thursday leading to the resignation of the Railway Minister.

 Body – Twenty persons were killed, and 33 others injured when 11 bogies of
Bangalore-bound Muzaffarpur- Yesvantpur Express derailed at Sitheri, about 90 km
from here, early this morning.

The derailment occurred around 5.50 am, a Railway official said.

Top officials of the Southern Railway visited the spot and commenced an initial probe
into the cause of the derailment.

 Ending – The number of recent train accidents have become a serious concern for the
government today. The government is planning some serious measures to avoid train
accidents.

Author: Diana Margarita Araque

Adapted by: Rubén Mauricio Muñoz – Elsy Marina Cantor
 Corporación Universitaria del Caribe “CECAR”
Bachelor in Education
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Subject: Writing Strategies in English
Writing and Essay and a News report
d) Check the Invert Pyramid method for writing the most important information in your
news report:

Image 1: Invert Pyramid. From:

https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/8/2016/09/image-1.jpeg

e) Design in Word or Power point your news report and save in PDF format or file. You can
check this example:

Author: Diana Margarita Araque

Adapted by: Rubén Mauricio Muñoz – Elsy Marina Cantor
 Corporación Universitaria del Caribe “CECAR”
Bachelor in Education
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Subject: Writing Strategies in English
Writing and Essay and a News report

Image 2: Example of a News report. From:

https://dryuc24b85zbr.cloudfront.net/tes/resources/11201189/image?width=500&height=500&version=1453669660943

e) Upload your News report PDF File/Format in Calameo. Paste here the link of Calameo of
your News Report here. Chek it this manual of Calameo:
http://www.mariobenedetti.edu.uy/Tutoriales/Tutorial%20Calameo.pdf

- Link blogger for your news report:

-
https://es.calameo.com/read/006280861c33d898cb9f6

Author: Diana Margarita Araque

Adapted by: Rubén Mauricio Muñoz – Elsy Marina Cantor