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Describing activities that took place in the past
Write a narrative text using the following criteria:
Activity 3.1
1. The principal topic of the writing has to be related to a traditional festival or
event.
2. The introduction needs to have the name of the festival, the place where it
is celebrated and the date of the celebration.
3. The main part of the narrative text has to describe the typical clothes people
wear, the typical food people prepare, the principal activities people organize
for that festival or event, the roles that men and women of that community play
during the preparation of the festival or event and during the day of the festival
or event.
4. The conclusion of the writing has to present the personal opinion of the
student.
5. The writing has to include the use of simple past and past continuous.
6. It has to present at least four sentences with WHEN or WHILE.
7. It needs to have at least four paragraphs (of about 50 words each), using
some connectors of sequence such as Frst, next, then, after, later on and Fna
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lly.
8. It has to include some drawings of the most representative items of the
festival or event. It could be some drawings of the clothes, food or music of the
festival.