Sentences

Journalism Writing Skills II

Grammar Assignment

Use each of the 16 sentence patterns at least once in your writing throughout the semester. It can be in your blogs or in any other assignment. You cannot count more than two sentence patterns for each item that you write (ie. You cannot cram all 16 sentences into your late blog). Use this sheet to keep a record of the sentence patterns you have used. THIS SHEET IS TO BE HANDED IN AT THE END OF THE SEMESTER

SP 1: Their pilots: Mark Weber, Sebastian Vettel, Felipe Massa, Jenson Button…

Assignment : Posted on Blog. Date: May 14^th, 2010

SP 2: The fist scuderia participation was in 1950’s Monaco’s GP, with the 125 F1, driven by…

Assignment : Posted on Blog. Date: March, 24^th, 2010

SP 3 The Quilotoa lake is one of the most beautiful in Ecuador: it is inside a crater and its color is turquoise

Assignment: Posted on Blog Date: June 27^th, 2010

SP 4 Visiting Quilotoa lake requires patience, a sharp mind, a strong body.

Assignment: Posted on Blog. Date: June 27^th, 2010

SP 5 Limoncocha gives different sensations; peace and anxiety, exiting and fear, energy and fatigue.

Assignment: Posted on Blog. Date: June 27^th, 2010

SP 6 Fish and guanta, monkey and cuzo, snake and chicken – each of them can be eaten if you were in Limoncocha.

Assignment: Posted on Blog. Date: June 27^th, 2010

SP 7The basic implements for Arrayanes – coat, sport shoes, water, food – must be carried.

Assignment: Posted on Blog. Date: June 27^th, 2010

SP 8 My favorite place—Atillo—always makes me feel peace.

Assignment: Posted on Blog. Date: June 27^th, 2010

SP 9 If I had the money, if I had the time, if I had a car I would go to “Isla de la plata”.

Assignment: Posted on Blog. Date: June 27^th, 2010

SP 10 Galapagos islands – one of the most beautiful places in the world – is my dad’s favorite place.

Assignment: Posted on Blog. Date: June 27^th, 2010

SP 11 Thinking in a museum, I went to the centre of Quito.

Assignment: Posted on Blog. Date: June 27^th, 2010

SP 12 Tired of my stressful life, I have though in taking vacation in Montañita.

Assignment: Posted on Blog. Date: June 27^th, 2010

SP 13 The exited teenagers dance a lot in Mindo.

Assignment: Posted on Blog. Date: June 28^th, 2010

SP 14 Never before Ecuador have had the chance of having a great hotel on the beach like Decameron.

Assignment: Posted on Blog. Date: June 28^th, 2010

SP 15 The more I see Freiles beach, the more I like the life.

Assignment: Posted on Blog. Date: June 28^th, 2010

SP 16 The pollution has increased. Global warming is affecting everybody. However Yasuní is alive

Assignment: Posted on Blog. Date: June 28^th, 2010

Yasuní

Yasuni National Park is located in the Coca, due to its high diversity of flora and fauna, as well as the presence of Quichua and Huaorani communities in particular, represents a high tourism potential and future. Quichua and Huaorani communities located within and in the buffer zone of the Park, engaged in ecotourism, which is their only means of income.

Scientific studies on the fauna of the Park, have determined the existence of 500 species of birds. As for mammals, there is a record of 173 species, although it is estimated that there are about 200 that would correspond to 57% of the fauna in the country. There have been 62 species of snakes and more than 100 species of amphibians, many colors as intense as toxic freshwater fish, also has a very high diversity. The most common and representative is the agouti, monkeys, ducks needle and snake, chameleon, blue macaws, yellow and red parrot, paiche, boa, catfish, white alligator lizard, monkey lion, real kingfisher, kills kills Carpenter, Ani, sloth, agouti, armadillo, eel, tiger, tortoise, harpy eagle, capybara, dolphin (Boto), woolly (woolly monkey), deer, black caiman, guan, fishing bat, jaguar (tigre) croaker, giant otter, giant otter, chichico, squirrel, piranha, peccary and manatee (sea cow).
The park is an endless succession of small hills formed by ancient passage of rivers. It houses one of the most biodiversity ecosystems on the planet, so the UNESCO declared World Biosphere Reserve. It is a natural laboratory that offers the opportunity to learn about tropical systems, its importance as the world's lung and extensive flora and fauna makes it a natural wonder that is the duty of all to preserve.

Frailes

Regarded as the best beach in the natural state of Ecuador and the fourth-best in South America is a complex of beaches which includes Los Frailes characterized by the transparent waters of white sand, the turtle of stunning landscapes and rock formations, the Playita where black is the predominant color of the sand by the high iron content is added to this tropical dry forest in the primary state that borders its shores, is an ideal spot for swimming and relax
.
Also, and very near it, lies the community of Agua Blanca a place of archaeological and tourist where you can see objects, tombs and the foundations of ancient dwellings of Culture Valdivia, one of the oldest in the continent. Near Puerto López and within the boundaries of the park is the Isla de la Plata, a place of great beauty and interest similar to the fauna of Galapagos and the possibility to observe whales between July and December.

Mompiche

Mompiche located in one of the beautiful southern beaches of Esmeraldas, with more than 7 km long and 2,000 habitants, there in the midst of peace and tranquility in the region, the beach Mompiche Region Muisne, in this places is perfect for surf

Only a few minutes from the Mompiche beach and near the Mache Chindul reserve, is the mangrove region and dry forest area in which you find trees such as bay leaf, balsa, pacas, oak, guayacan and ebony, which are habited by howling monkeys, ardvarks and badgers. Mompiche is a Paradise natural and has infrastructure perfect for people exigent.

Mindo

Mindo is located near Quito, and its main economy is based on tourism and agriculture. This wonderful place has forests of 19’000 hectare and 500 different beards species, it even counts with a unique garden, named Nataly, which holds around 40 different types of butterflies and various orchid. Mindo can also provide you with tour guides that will take you on a journey through there forests, were you can be amazed by the flora and fauna that this place offers you, and see trees and hummingbirds in its natural habitat.

There are several ecological roads where you can enjoy breath taking views of waterfalls and mountains; you can even go fishing. Here, the hotels are cheap, so you can have more money to enjoy the night life and go to a bar. It´s typical food is delicious, and for the more conservative tourist there are foreign meals such as pizza

Mindo is definitely a magical place for people who love nature and extreme sports like flying in air with ropes, jumping the waterfalls or going rafting. When I travel to this town, I love the rustic houses and the natural scenes, it´s the perfect place if you get tired of the city, pollution and buildings.

Montañita

Located in Guayas, this beautiful place is a mix that big waves, golden sand and tropical vegetation doing that this place a paradise beach, when the people didn’t exist. Montañita know because the surf, hippies in camping and little houses, but more time building hotel, restaurants, and tourist that all Ecuadorian and word began to fall in love with this magnificent place and settled here.

Nowadays Montañita is a place multicultural, that exist surf, pizzas and typical food of the cost. The nightlife is a separate issue in Montanita: bars that become discotheques and music in the main corner of the resort, thanks to the craftsmen and musicians who always want to stay in Montanita a longer time than thought and this exiting place predominant reggae music and good vibration.

Quito

The city of Quito is one of the most beautiful cities in South America, due to its geographical location surrounded by volcanoes and mountains you can enjoy a varied climate throughout the year. The proliferation of churches, monasteries and convents served to Quito to be called the Faculty of America. Quito turned into a city of art and sculpture of the new world with the Quito school which taught painting and crafts for the Indians, where the maximum is the Indian representative Caspicara.

The focus of colonial Quito's Independence Square which is surrounded by the Government Palace, Cathedral, Archbishop's Palace and the City, hence its surroundings there are many narrow streets that are full of stories, traditions and anecdotes. Along street Garcia Moreno, one of the main streets of this city, are located seven churches and convents.
Colonial Quito has a large number of traditional places to enjoy a coffee together with some food such as wafers, sighs, and quesadillas, fig preserves, and other traditional delicacies from the colonial period also places to have a few drinks canelazos boiled wine.
The Company is one of the most beautiful baroque churches in Latin America for its architectural design and colonial art Quito, for this reason it has earned the name of the Sistine Chapel in Quito. Another of the traditional sites of this colonial town is the La Ronda, the present structure of the houses in this neighborhood preserving the magic touch of Spanish house full of stories and romance Quito.
The architectural structure of this city and the combination of places such as churches, convents and monasteries of centuries past are very well preserved and modern architecture that Quito became the first city in the Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
We city is very especial for us culture and histor.