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One of my bac students wrote the following article and asked for some feedback!!!
He felt
smothered; he didn �t think of a word or an expression to describe what he
already lost, He wrote a lot when he feels betrayed by unwilling words, trying
to escape his schizophrenic logic. He smiled lightly fearing future and the
cold nights beneath, a smile that revealed his yellow unperfected teeth, he
felt the urge to smoke his days, and put off months of unachieved lust, the
urge to remain youth, and live his dreams like there was no tomorrow, the urge
to contain life and persons, and be the man he wanted to be...
At that time, many thoughts have already crossed his mind to the other side of
undone wishes, and he didn �t know from where he had to start and whether or not
he should do so, he was unsure about everything or almost, he didn �t like to think
about it, but every time he stumble into that, to wake him up and bring him
back to where he had already started. He knew that he was running into blank
circles of pure doubt, and he knew that fear was consuming him; he was in
denial, refusing any statement that shows him reality in big shiny letters. He
came back to his nest like an orphan crow, not making eye contact with anybody,
and for moments he understood that believing was a felony and he was somehow
guilty not being the reflection of social illnesses like everybody else...
He didn �t regret what he is, but he wished salvation not even knowing from
what, or from whom, and between all those contradictory inquisitions, he
sighed. All he saw was clear grey and dirty white, and beyond the bigger image,
he couldn �t see more, he hummed a song, playing with his keys in a way to
forget colors and images, and to reconnect with world and people, and subjects
that refer to real persons and feelings..
He entered his home, he checked his mailbox, there was nothing but dust filling
up that space, and he smiled sarcastically saying something he couldn �t
understand. He continued walking to the living room, he wanted to change the
decor and make it more cheerful, he stopped for while not knowing where to go,
he stood like a tree with his 6 �1" looking at his messy house.."the
maid have forgotten to come by" It didn �t matter too much from him, he
preferred not to think of anything for a moment, it will spare him permanent
headaches at night, he put on the TV, just to be aware of what people do in his
absence..2mn...4mn ,he put it off throwing the remote control in a random way,
he felt like writing something cheerful, he searched a pen to satisfy that
sudden desire, he thought of an appropriate title to start words he didn �t
have, that desire fainted even more rapidly than the first, and he finally
surrendered to his very fertile imagination. It was already 5AM, and it was
Monday, and for some reasons he didn �t care, he woke up not knowing when he had
slept, and he became to think that all he saw was nothing but bitter
nightmares. It was indeed confusion, he walked to his bed to complete what he
have started promising himself to be more social in the next hours.
"Where to live?" was his question of the day, and it was tricky to
answer, it was even harder to think about it, at least for him, and he wished
if someone has already resolved that charade, to get to the answer and shut the
mouth of his unsatisfied consciousness and let him feel lighter and most of all
smarter, he slept like a baby, with no ideas left in his mind, he slept wishing
nothing but good luck...He slept dreaming of dices and wheels of fortune, and
most of all full houses.
It �s an excellent piece of writing. Unfortunately, i don �t have time to correct it. The errors are in punctuation and the consistent use of tense, or at least that �s all i saw. The writer is very poetic. The ideas are grand and that �s what good writing is about in my book.
Text is well written, the author has attempted to use a great number of constructions and pharses used in creative writing. The descriptions are very vivid and complete. There are some grammar mistakes but they do not interefere with the whole understdaning of the text. Overall impression is positive. You have a talented student