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Step 1: Write a complete story with a beginning, middle, and ending. You may only use "simple sentences" on this page. Write at least 20 simple sentences.
 * Writing Task 1: The Basics**

There are 5 simple sentence formats: (See pages 4 & 5 in handout for examples.) 1a.S+V. 1b. S+V and V. 1c. S and S + V.

2a. S+V+C. (C=prepositional phrase) 2b. S+V+C. (C=adverb) 2c. S+V+C. (C=adjective) 2d. S+V+C. (C=noun)

3. S+V+O. 4. S+V+DO+IO. 5. S+V+IO+DO.

1. My name is Alice. 2. I am from Japan. 3. I want to speak English very well. 4. I decided on my plan to go to the U.S. 5. I came to the United States in September 18 by myself. 6. I landed in Seattle airport (Tacoma ). 7. I stayed in Seattle for a night. 8. I met a guy in the airport. 9. His name is Ryan. 10. He was also going to Portland. 11. Ryan and I came to Portland by car. 12. It is about 200 miles from Seattle. 13. We talked a lot to each other. -The verb is "talked to". 14. Ryan is from Saudi Arabia. 15. Ryan also wants to speak English. 16. I do not know about his culture. 17. He also do not know about my curture. 18. We are really interested about each other's culture. 19.In the future, I would like to be flight attendant. 20. He wants to be a tour guide. 21. we both think English is very important for finding a good job. 22.We studied English hard to realize our goal. 23Finally,we finish our school. 24.We have a successful start in each other's career. 25.We all adore our work passionately and have determination and willpower to persist in the things we are doing.
 * Writing Task 1: ) This is a great start! Could you add 4 more simple sentences to the story? **


 * 1) My name is ahmad
 * 2) I am 19 years old
 * 3) I was born and raised in Saudi Arabia
 * 4) I graduated from high-school in 2008
 * 5) in summer 2008 I came to Portland
 * 6) I couldnt speak English
 * 7) I started taking English classes
 * 8) I lived in an apartment for 6 months
 * 9) I used to go to college by walking
 * 10) My brothers came to Portland
 * 11) I moved to a house in Beaverton
 * 12) I live with my brothers
 * 13) I go to college by car
 * 14) I started to make friends
 * 15) I wanted to improve my skills in English
 * 16) I like to travel
 * 17) I went to Canada and UK
 * 18) I went to San Fransisco and Las Vegas
 * 19) I want to go to Amesterdam
 * 20) I impoved my English language
 * 21) by talkig to people, read books, and listen carefully to what people say