The 28th of January we celebrated the bicentenary of the publication of the novel "Pride and Prejudice" written by Jane Austen, at training solutions.
Frankly, I have never heard about this writer.. It was a surprise for me getting to know this day, that is quiet important all over the world..
It had to be a normal Monday- English- lesson, in a normal cold winter afternoon.. Most of us arrived late,including me.. We didn't expect what actually after happened...
Mary was very unhappy for our delay.. But she didn't get lost her enthusiasm and starded introducing Jane Austen to us. Only few students knew about this author..
After the presentation we started reading the first page of some of her book as "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility", "Emma" and "Persuation"... And also something about her biography.. We found out a lot of informations to deline more or less her behaviour and her life.. There's a lot of her life in her books..
Then, Mary diveded us into groups of two beacuse we had to do an assignment about Jane's things that moved us.. So we got prepared with a lot of links and each one with a computer to write a word page, because finally we had to display our work to the other classmates..
But suddenly the light went off and nobody couldn't continue the work anymore.. We thought that the ghost of Jane Austen came to visit us.....ooooooh..
After about fifteen minutes, at last the light turned on.. But It was late and we didn't finish our work..
However, we got the time to drink tea.. ! The best and the most surprising ending I've ever heard about..
What about you? How did you spend Jane Austen's Day?
Hi Caroline,
ReplyDeleteThis is a nicely-written and lively account - you can feel the atmosphere of the day as you're reading it!
Specific points:
- Here I think it's ok but normally we don't actually write "the" and "of" with dates. We just say them!
- Training Solutions. It's a name so capitals.
- I had never heard, because you are talking about the time BEFORE this day you're talking about.
- "which" not "that" is quite (spelling) important. After the comma "that" is not strong enough so we don't use it in non-defining relative clauses.
- It was supposed to be a normal Monday English lesson, on a ...
- ... what actually happened afterwards.
- ... unhappy about our delay/about us being late, but (no full stop otherwise you would have to use "However") she didn't lose her...
(- spelling "started" but I think this is just typing)
- Only a few..
- some of her books, such as...Persuasion (spelling).
- Again no full stop otherwise "and" would have to be "Also" or "Moreover". We don't start formal sentences with "and" or "but".
- information is uncountable so no "s"
- information about her behaviour and her life (not deline)
- Spelling "divided" (and because)
- the things that moved (or touched or interested) us about Jane.
- So - not at the beginning of a sentence
- got is rather colloquial. Maybe "we prepared ourselves"
- afterwards rather than "finally" we were going to have to present our work to our classmates.
- However (not but)
- nobody could (already negative with nobody) continue to work
- ghost...had come
- the light went back on again but (no full stop)
- we did have is stronger than we got
As I said above, this is a lovely lively account. The main thing which came up several times is that "and" and "but" don't come at the beginning of a sentence, especially in formal writing. You are also doing double full-stops - not sure if this is just a printing problem but obviously you wouldn't want to do that in the exam.
Good work.
Best regards,
Sherry