Writing skills practice: A blog – exercises

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

LUIS DAVID DOMINIQUETTE

 1. 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

Hilarious Boring
Cool Disgusting
Brilliant Embarrassing
Friendly Immature
Interesting Annoying
Fantastic Scary
Awesome Lame
Amazing Awful
funny terrible

2. CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING: TRUE OR FALSE

Choose 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

3. CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING: GAP FILL – completing a blog

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

fantastic Can you believe friendly So scary

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

I had an amazing time on summer camp in Florida. Met loads of great people and
have lots of stories to tell. Can you believe I saw a shark
in the sea? Yeah, I was surfing and having a fantastic time with
 my friends, then suddenly, a shark came really close. I could see its teeth
So scary ! We all screamed and luckily the shark swam away. I love Florida, the people are so
cool and friendly and the sun is always out. And something amazing happened. Top secret,
but I met a really nice girl.
We’re going to keep in touch!
Anyway, I had a great time. I can’t wait! to go again next year. I’ve put loads of new
photos on Facebook so check them out and leave a comment, too!

4. DISCUSSION
Have you ever been to a theme park?
Yes, I have been in Ciudad de hierro with my friends and I have also been Divercity with my
family.
Do you like reading blogs? Do you have a blog?
Although if I think I like to read, reading blogs I don’t really like reading stories about magical things
or maybe reading mangas, and currently if I have a blog about the time I went to my grandmother’s
village.

5. WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG

Write your blog below about a trip you went on. Think about these questions: Where
did you go? Who did you go with? What did you do there? What did you
enjoy? What didn’t you enjoy? Do you want to go back?