Rubric analysis 1 Read the rubric, look at the
underlined words and answer
the questions.
You have had a class discussion
about working mothers. Now
your teacher has asked you to
write an essay expressing your
opinion on the following: Should
mothers go to work? Write your
essay giving reasons to support
your opinion (120-180 words).
1 What do you have to write?
2 a) 10.54 What style will you
write in: formal or informal?
b) What characterises this
style? Tick ()
colloquial language
and idioms
short verb forms
longer sentences
formal linking words/phrases
I was alone in the house, reading a scary ghost story as snow fell silently outside. The only sound was the ticking of my old grandmother clock. The dying fire cast an orange glow onto the walls of my study.
I was absorbed in the story when suddenly I began to feel that someone was watching me. The clock stopped ticking. I looked around but I could see no one. Was my mind playing with my?
Trying to ignore my intense fears, I returned to my book. After a few seconds, though, the book was knocked to the floor by an unseen hand. "Who's there?" I cried. I saw something standing in front of me that made my blood run cold. A shadow white ghost pointed a pale finger at me. Its mouth moved. "Come on, come on with me! It's time!" it said.
"What do you want?" I managed to ask, shaking with fear. The ghost took me by the hand and led me to the window. Just as we reached it, the clock struck twelve.
Mysteriously, I found myself back in my armchair, my book beside me. I looked around but only Samantha, my cat, was in the room, trying to make herself comfortable on my lap. "Where's the ghost?" I wondered, then laughed at myself. "I'd better stop reading ghost stories," I thought. But then I felt a cold wind blowing in through the now open window.
I'm dying, I'm dying!
The patient sorrow in her chest to keep,
You do not mourn me.
I could not live among people,
Cold poison in my soul.
And what he lived and what he loved,
I myself terribly poisoned.
His soul of pride
I passed happy party.
I saw the shed blood
And cursed faith and love.
I drank a cup to the dregs,
It poisons the soul is full.
So I GASN in silence,
But before the death of me easily.
I wiped the brow seal land
I am above quivering in the dust.
And let live slaves of passions -
Otherwise, the passion of my soul.
Mad World, a nightmare,
And life is a song funeral.
So I finished my life,
Last myself singing the national anthem.
Are you sick with anxiety
Do not cry in vain
Above me.