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1) Stop thinking in Spanish : Literal translations don’t always work !

1) Stop thinking in Spanish : Literal translations don’t always work ! 2 ) Think about the grammatical rules that you have studied in class before starting to write a sentence .

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1) Stop thinking in Spanish : Literal translations don’t always work !

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  1. 1) Stop thinking in Spanish: Literal translationsdon’talwayswork! 2) Thinkaboutthegrammatical rules thatyouhavestudied in classbeforestartingtowrite a sentence. 3) Ifyoudon’tremembertheexactwordyou are thinkingabout, don’tworry: There are probablymanyways of expressingwhatyou mean, so try toexplainwhatthatwordmeans, forexample.

  2. 4) Youmusttakecareoveryourcalligraphy. A goodpresentationisappreciable! 5)Paragraphstructure: Write a well-organizedcomposition. Try to introduce thetopic, developyour idea and sum up a conclusion. 6) Misspelling: Payattentiontothespelling of thewords, revise yourwork and correctthemisspelledwords.

  3. 7) Subject-verbagreement: Sheare living 8) Tense agreement: I wenttothebeachwith my friends. Webuysomefruitjuices. 9) Word order: I goalwaystothebeach 10) Pronounreferencing: Paul is my bestfriend. Paulis 16 yearsold.

  4. 11)Capital letters: Use themonlywhenrequired (firstletter of a sentence, days of theweek, months, propernames…). 12) Punctuation: Itisimportantto use thecorrectpunctuationmarks (, . ; ! ? ). 13) Connectors: Make use of connectorstomakeyoursentencesmeaningful and richer.

  5. 14) Use yourpassivevocabulary, so youwon’tneedtorepeatthesamewords: very, truly, really, a lot of, many… 15) Thesubject: Itis a essentialpart of thespeech in English. Don’tforgetit! 16) Adjective + Noun: My swimsuitred

  6. 17) Correct use of articles(a, an, theor no article). 18) Thedifferencebetween I and me: My friend and mewenttothebeach.

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