Daily Writing Practice

Essay:

A Day in the Life of a Snail.

Daily Vocabulary Practice

 Good morning, guys!!!

Can you call out the names of animals that fall into the following categories:

Farm animals, Pets, and Wild animals?

Daily Writing Practice

 Hello guys!!

Think of the advantages and disadvantages of having a holiday in space. What are the good things about going on holiday into space? How would we benefit? What are some of the problems we could face? What would stop us from going on a holiday in space?

Daily Writing Practice

 Hello guys!!

Write a letter to your friend (in another classroom) about the things in  (describing) their classroom.

Paste your text in the comments below. Thank you!

My Daily Vocabulary

 Hello,guys!

Here are the answers to the previous post:

1. fester

2. lurch

3. infatuation

4. jeered

5. confide

6. wheeze out

7. slurred

8. torment

9. doggedly

10. throng

11. corollary

Now it is high time to have some more practice. Enjoy it!!!

ace in the hole

bust

chomp

clavicle

dictum

dweeb

eave

furnace

magnanimous

mundane

parole

pawnshop

regs

smirk

snotty

stale off

vignette

wonky

1. I had a desk beneath the room's other ____, my old Royal typewriter, and a hundred or so paperback books, mostly science fiction, which I lined up along the baseboard.

2. Copying the files had been an infraction of department ___, and the fewer people who knew that the better.

3. There are no bad dogs according to the title of popular training manual, but don't tell that to the parent of a child mauled by a pitbull or a rottweiler, he is or she is apt to ____ your beak for you.

4. Additionally, these families will find, perhaps, some comfort in knowing that Mr. Waits is serving a prison sentence of life without the possibility of ____.

5. As an initial offer of credibility and good faith, he suggests that investigators review the investigation into the death of Daniel Fitzpatrick,63, who was buried to death in his Hollywood Boulevard ___ on April 30, 1992.

6. Olivas ____ as of Borsch didn't see the light.

7. But the bag of carrots was our ___.

8. the whole experience has ___ me.

9. I'm probably being ___ here, but I am also, believe me, honestly curious.

10. If I don't write every day, the characters begin to ____ in my mind-they begin to seem like characters instead of real people.

11. Also, I didn't want to sound like a workaholic ___.

12. he raises his hand and I cringe, ducking my head, waiting for the pain, and in that moment I know that I've done this before, felt this before, but I can't remember when and I don't have time to think about it now, because although he hasn't time, he's placed his hands on my shoulders and he's gripping them tightly, and it hurts s much I cry out.

13. I wrote my first two published novels, Carrie and Salem's Lot, in the laundry room of a doublewide trailer, pounding away on my wife's portable Olivetti typewriter and balancing a child's desk on my thighs; John Clever reputedly wrote in the basement of his Park Avenue apartment building, near ___.

14. I suggest a thousand words day, and because I'm feeling ___, I'll also suggest that you can take one day a week off, at least to begin with.

15. Whether it's a ___ of a single page or an epic trilogy like The Lord of the Rings, the work is always accomplished one word at a time.

16. It surrounds me, keeps the  ___ world out.

17. If he does know, I assure you that sooner or later he'll start showing up, ___ his cigar and making his magic.

18. The ___ in writing classes used to be "write what you know".

19. It's morally ___, for one thing- the job of fiction is to find the truth inside the story's web of lies, not to commit intellectual dishonesty in the hint for the buck.

My Daily Vocabulary

 Hello guys,

Here are the answers to the previous post from 02/18/2024:

1. heaved

2. thrall

3. slumped

4. hauled

5. bellowing

6. stifled

7. beckoning

8. banished

9. jangle

10. jolts

11. docile

12. twitching

13. loathing

14. libel

Enjoy the new words:

confide

corollary

dogged

fester

infatuation

jeer

lurch

slur

throng

torment

wheeze out

1. He had recovered from far worse, but for some reason this cut had begun to ___ and he could already smell the rot.

2. He pushed away from the trunk with a deep breath that made his head spin and his stomach ___.

3. Magnus had quickly realised his ___ was entirely one-sided.

4. Like his friends in Del, he had always ___ at such talk.

5. I ___ in him and I forget, once again, what I'm doing here.

6. He glanced down at her, his chest tight as he struggled to ___ the question. 

7. "Why did you ignore me? Did I do something wrong?" he ___, hating how pathetic he sounded, and not only because of illness...

8. Why did he ___ himself with these questions?

9. But ___ he moved on, hurrying despite his exhaustion.

10. I'm part of the Friday - evening commuter ____, just another wage slave amongst the hot, tired masses, looking forward to getting home and sitting outside with a cold beer, dinner with the kids, an early night. 

11. The ___  is that no writer will take all of his or her editor's advice; for all have sinned and fallen short of editorial perfection.

My Daily Vocabulary

 Hello guys,

Here are the answers to the previous post on 02/10/2024

1. hurtled

2. haul

3. lumber

4. jeering

5. snapping

6. frailing

7. gnashing

8. placate

9. thrall

10. pyre

New words to enjoy

banish

beckon

bellow

docile

haul

heave

jangle

jolt

loathe

libel

slump

stifle

thrall

twitch

1. Lief ___ on the cloak with all his might.

2. You were his ___.

3. His bronze skin looked sallow, and his tall frame seemed a little ___ in his seat.

4. Lief and Barda ___ on the cloak, their arms straining.

5. ____ in shock and terror they sank like stones, their arms thrashing frantically as their great weight drove them down.

6. Somewhere in those depths lay Jin and Jod, their wickedness ___ forever.

7. He felt a hand touch his arm, and looked up to see Manus ___ to him urgently.

8. Lief took a deep breath, ____ the whispering voice from his mind, and nodded.

9. Until I hear footballs on the steps outside, the familiar ___ of Cathy fishing around in her huge handbag for her house keys.

10. It ___ me to life.

11. He does as he's told, kicking off his shoes and lying back on the bed, ___ as a sick child.

12. Beside him, Manus was sighing and ___ - tormented, no doubt, by dreams.

13.For five years he had lived with fear and ___ in the company of wickedness.

14. Can't ___ the dead!!!