Writing skills practice: A blog – exercises

Look at the blog and do the exercises to practise and improve your writing skills.

Preparation
Write the adjectives in the correct group.

funny disgusting embarrassing annoying brilliant cool

boring awesome immature scary lame terrible

amazing fantastic interesting friendly awful hilarious

positive negative
1. Check your understanding: true or false
Circle True or False for these sentences.

1. Lara didn't enjoy the trip to the theme park. True False

2. Lara went to the theme park with her family. True False

3. Lara's coach had an accident on the way to the theme park. True False

4. Lara thought the rides were fantastic. True False

5. The weather was perfect all day. True False

6. Lara screamed when she went on the water rides. True False

7. Lara was sick when she went on the scary rides. True False

8. Lara wants to visit the theme park again. True False

2. Check your writing: gap fill – completing a blog

Use the words and phrases in the box to complete the blog.

fantastic Can you believe friendly So scary

something amazing
amazing check them out I can’t wait
happened

I had an 1_______________ time on summer camp in Florida. Met loads of great people and
have lots of stories to tell. 2_______________ I saw a shark in the sea? Yeah, I was surfing
and having a 3_______________ time with my friends, then suddenly a shark came really
close. I could see its teeth! 4_______________! We all screamed and luckily the shark swam
away.

I love Florida, the people are so cool and 5_______________ and the sun is always out. And,
6
_______________. Top secret, but I met a really nice girl. We’re going to keep in touch!

Anyway, I had a great time. 7_______________ to go again next year. I’ve put loads of new
photos on Facebook so 8_______________ and leave a comment, too!

Discussion

Have you ever been to a theme park?

Do you like reading blogs? Do you have a blog?