4. WRITING: You are going to write a letter back
home where your family is expecting some news from you and your grandson.
Look at the picture of the camp before
and after and write
about the changes that have taken place.
When writing your letter you may want to use the
sentences you have ticked as useful
and possibly also some of the adjectives (antonyms)
you have worked on. Include in your letter the following aspects:
Describe what some little villages that lie scattered round the park look
like.
Mention
the different sports that can be played these days like hiking on the
hills, canoeing...
Mention
that the Government has protected a number of species.
Mention
that special observatories have been built both to observe and photograph
the fauna (name those that appear in your pictures).
Explain
that the course of a brook, which flowed down from the hills, has been
changed and nowadays the current floods the meadows. Describe the stream
and the quality of its waters. Describe your feelings at sunset sitting
by the stream (one of your pictures was taken there as your grandson was
throwing pebbles into it).
Start this way and build about 5 long paragraphs:
Dear family,
You must be wondering what has come of us but I needed to be in
this place for some time before I could express my feelings about
it clearly enough.
First of all let me tell you that the child
is just fine. Actually he just told me he's having the time of
his life. As to our visit to the camp I could say how true it
is that "April's showers bring for May flowers" because
I still cannot believe my eyes when I see how much this place
has changed after the horrors we lived there.
There are none of the old buildings left.
The bulldozers must have demolished the camp long ago and, in
its place, grass and flowers have grown and trees have been planted.
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