ENGLISH 3 - WRITING TASK -20% - 64 HOUR COURSE

STUDENT`S NAME: Wendy Dayanis Vàsquez Àlvarez

DATE: 16-05-2020 ID: 18242065

TYPE OF TASK: Writing a formal email

AUDIENCE: Human resources team
PURPOSE: Informing about habits, customs and lifestyles of citizens in different places.
PROMPT: You are on a student exchange program in an English-speaking country. So, you decide to write an
email to your friend back in Colombia describing the different habits and customs of the people in the country you
are living in. In your text, include the following aspects:
1. Provide information about the habits, customs, urban tribes and lifestyles of people in the foreign country.
2. Describe the lifestyle based on housing, food choices, dressing, hobbies, and other features.
3. Make comparisons between the customs of the foreign country and the ones in Colombia.
4. Write 110 to 130 words and follow the format below.

Dear Santiago

My first weeks at England were very difficult, I didn’t know the culture and the rules of this society. Before left Colombia, people
warned me about the cultural shock I might suffer and actually is much more than just the food.

I felt strange in this country because people is not that funny o nice as Colombian people, they´re kind but pretty reserved about their
lifes.

One of the different thing of England is the behavior of people on the underground. They allow other to get out first before they come
in. Another thing is the sensitive that are this people, to them relationship are pretty strong and important and you can´t do a lot of
jokes or say something joking very usual because they take pretty serious anything you say, continuous with that they are very bad
expressing their feeling and emotions and you have to push them to tell you what´s wrong, it’s so frustrating, in Colombia we are so
used to express what we feel.

The food is tasteless, there is no much color on it, and they don’t have a lot food dishes of their country, they prefer try food from
other cultures, like Chinese food, or Indian like curry

They also don’t have any coordination in their bodies, they dance just like a tree, to them Latin people are a professional dancer, I´ve
tried to teach a few of them how to dance but I was useless.

There are a lot of cultures and urban groups, and all of them live together in a place where different are seen as an advantage, most
of people in England have tattoos, they like them and some groups like “city boys” and “the biker” have a lot of them

So this has been my experience until now, here in England, I really miss Colombia and I like to come back, but by now I have to stay
here and try to explore and know more about this country and its culture,

Love, Wendy
 ENGLISH 3 - WRITING TASK -20% - 64 HOUR COURSE

STUDENT`S NAME: Wendy Dayanis Vàsquez Àlvarez

DATE: 16-05-2020 ID: 18242065

CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING THE WRITING TASK

SPACE ONLY FOR TEACHERS

Rating scale
Poor Needs Fair Good Out-
Total per
1 improve- 3 4 standing
Criteria and descriptor ment 5 criterion
The student is able to: 2
Communication and content: understand and complete the
task assigned by providing information about habits and
customs of citizens in different places; communicate and
send messages so the audience is left with no questions.
Composing (organization): produce a cohesive text
(relationship among the parts of the text) and show evidence
of a coherent text (an appropriate organization within the
sentences that are according to the level).
Vocabulary (lexicon): use vocabulary related to habits and
customs of citizens in different places, urban tribes,
traditions, descriptors, adjectives; and use a variety of words
to make writing interesting.
Structure (syntax): produce the simple and progressive
present tenses, prepositions, comparatives, and use other
sentence structures.
Mechanics: make proper use of capitalization, punctuation
and spelling to avoid interferences with the communicative
meaning of the task.

TOTAL OF MARKS: ____________ /25 SCORE: ________________

COMMENTS (for formative purposes, write here any ideas for students to improve his/her performance):

Evaluator: ___Sol Cardona____________________

Created by Language Center Supporting Teachers, March 2020