THEY'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THE BUS FOR 30 MIN. THEY'RE WONDERING

THE SITUATION WAS + THAT CLAUSE

The situation

was   that I went away this weekend and

          I was supposed to get in yesterday at 5

and      I expected to fully complete all the exams by midnight or so which is the time  that I usually go to bed

but    my flight was delayed

and   I ended up not getting in until 1 A.M .

                                                                                                                              (TOEFL BARRON)

THE VIOLIN- DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE ALL ALONE?

THE VIOLIN-JI-HAE-PARK

Do you feel like you are all alone? 

I hope that this piece will touch and heal your heart, as it did for me.

Now, I use my music to reach people's hearts and have found there are no boundaries. 

My audience is anyone who is here to listen, even those who are not familiar with classical music. 

LET

Directions: Put the verb "let" into the correct verb tense or form. Some verbs are negative.

1. She _________ _______ her hair grow long. (present continuous tense)

2. He __________ his children walk to the store by themselves. (present tense -- negative)

3. The police __________ residents back into the area after it's safe. (future tense)

4. ___________ me help you. (imperative)

5. __________ __________ them eat all that candy. (imperative -- negative)

6. You need __________ __________ the cake cool off before eating it. (infinitive)

7. Who __________ the dog out? (past tense)

8. The teacher __________ his students chew gum in the classroom. (present tense)

9. The people who captured the wild rabbits _________ them go. (have to, past tense)

10. __________ they __________ us go early? (present continuous tense)

11. Why _____security officials __ the man get onto the plane? (past tense -- negative)

12. Over a hundred criminals __________out of prison early due to overcrowding. (past tense, passive voice)

13. We __________  the kids decide where to go for vacation this year. (should)

14. Who __________ their children stay out past midnight?! (present tense)

15. That man __________ ___his beard grow very long. (present perfect tense)

16. Everyone __________  back into the building after the fire drill had ended. (past tense, passive voice)

17. ____________ the dog eat all that pizza is not a good idea. (gerund)

18. ___________'s go fishing this weekend. (imperative)

19.This website __________ __________ me enter my information. (will -- negative)

20. How much money __________ the bank __________ you borrow?

HOW TO WRITE

Millions of students have been taught a formula that has nothing to do with chemistry.

The formula is for how to write a five-paragraph essay.

First, write an introductory paragraph to state the argument.

Then, add three paragraphs of evidence.

Finally, write a conclusion.

Linda Bergmann is director of the Writing Lab at Purdue University in Indiana.

Her job is to help students, including international students, improve their writing.

Professor Bergmann has worked with many students who learned this traditional five-paragraph formula.

She says international students sometimes have difficulty with this formula if they learned a different writing structure.

But just knowing how to write a five-paragraph essay is not going to be enough for a college student who has to write a longer academic paper.

As Professor Bergmann points out, the formula is too simple to deal with subjects that require deeper thought and investigation.

In her words, "Essentially, it is way too simplistic to handle more intellectually sophisticated topics which involve actual inquiry."

Karen Gocsik is executive director of courses in the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

The institute has an extensive library of online writing materials on its website.

So what are the qualities that make up good writing? Ms. Gocsik says there are no simple answers -- except maybe for one.

That is, there is no formula that students can follow to guarantee a well-written paper.

She says, "What we try to teach students to do in college is to listen to their ideas, and that the idea should be able to tell you what form it needs to take."

She says moving from secondary-school writing to college-level writing can be difficult, but students should not be afraid.

American college students are usually expected to state their thesis at the beginning of a paper.

In some cultures, students organize their paragraphs to build toward the main idea at the end.

And, while students in some cultures use lots of descriptive words, American professors generally want shorter sentences.

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