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Task #2 - Write a Descriptive Text

Course: 22485VIC - Certificate II in EAL (Access)
Unit: VU22605 - Read and write simple descriptive and narrative texts.
Element: 2. Write a simple descriptive text.

Student Instructions
▪ In this task you will write a description of something.
▪ Choose a topic from the following page to write about. You may handwrite or type your text.

Your teacher will check that you can:

 Write a plan (2.2)
 Write at least 100 words
 Check your writing and correct any mistakes (2.4)

Before you start:

1. Tick the topic you want to write about. (2.1)

☐Describe a place - This could be a building such as a library, art gallery, or

shopping centre. It could be an outdoor space like a park, forest or beach.

☐Describe a job - This could be a job you have done before, one that you know
about well, or a job you would like to do.

☐Describe a town, city or country - This could be the place you currently live, or
have lived in the past. It may be a place you have visited or would like to visit.

☐Describe
✔ a person or group of people - This could be a friend, family member,
workmate, or even a famous person. Alternatively, you could write about your
family as a whole, or staff or sporting team you have been involved in.

☐Describe a community service or education facility - This could be a service or

school that you have attended previously, or one that you or someone you know
may attend in future.

☐Describe a recreation option - This could be a sport (e.g. football), a form of

exercise (e.g. yoga), or a place of recreation (e.g. leisure centre, community
centre).

☐ Other:
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2. Who are you writing for? You can tick more than one answer. (2.1)
☐ My friends
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✔ My classmates
☐ My family
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✔ My teacher

3. Plan your writing here. (2.2)

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4. Writing Task: First Draft (2.2, 2.3)

I am going to talk about a person who is mean world to me. Actually this is about my loving husband. I
have met him five years ago. The very first day he was ask me out and supricedly after few days I said
yes to him. Since that, every day I am thinking that I am the luckies girl in the world. I am always saying
he is the one who god has made for me. Because, he is loving me more than anything, caring about
me more, giving me anything that I ask. He is so caring about my parents and my siblings more than
me. And finally he is a good father to our baby boy. I can not imaging my life without him.

After you finish writing, correct your mistakes and write it again in your final draft.
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5. Final draft (2.4)