Personal writing- Dairies

Personal writing- Dairies

Open Ended

What do you remember about the letter we read in our last lesson where a son wrote a letter to his mother?

Multiple Select

Choose all the words from the checklist below which you think are key words.

Remember the day I arrived in my new town, one of my many stops on this journey that is life. The rains at the airport in Stavanger brought me memories of you working in the fields, not shielding yourself from the warm raindrops. I remembered you then, way back. For, I knew you would have composed an instant poem to celebrate first raindrops, those songs about the fish eagle up in the sky, the harbinger of rain, giving life to people, animals and plants.

• arrived

• memories

• celebrate

• brought

Multiple Select

Choose all the keys words or phrases from the extract below.

Here they still have not stopped cursing the rain. I always remind them that one who curses the rain is a witch who wishes that life should not be brought to this earth. But no, they still curse at their gentle, thunder-less rain. They prefer the sun instead. Or the white snow which paints the street white as if cotton wool has embraced the whole earth. My fear of snow still persists, especially when it hardens and becomes slippery ice.

• have not

• cursing

• thunder-less rain

• white snow

Multiple Select

Select the words that you think best describe the writer’s mood in the text.

• angry

• personal

• reflective

• anxious

• thoughtful

Multiple Select

Identify key words and choose all the correct answers.

His words are nostalgic and gentle as he reminisces about the past. The references to the rain and the warm raindrops suggest a mood of refreshing memories, echoed in the way he describes such weather as giving life, associating water with vitality and creation.

• nostalgic

• about

• reminisces

• refreshing