miércoles, 26 de agosto de 2009

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY (DRAFT)

OUTLINE

I.- INTRODUCTION

a) General Information (name, age, carrear)
b) Physical Appearance (Eyes, skin, hair, hands)
c) State Thesis (Likes, dislikes, life experiences, plans for the future)

II.- Body developmental paragraph 1
a) Likes
b) Dislikes


II.- Body developmental paragraph 2

a) The meaning of the life experiences
b) To live away from my Dad
c) The day I got married

IV.- Body developemental paragraph 3

a) Plans for the future in general
b) To work, to buy a house and to travel
c) How?

V.- CONCLUSION

a) Restate Thesis (Likes, dislikes, life experiences, plans for the future)
b) Opinions
c) Final Statement


ESSAY

There are different types of people in the world, but I think that you have never met someone like me, have you? My name is Veronica Díaz López, I am 20 years old and I was born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, but now I am living in Aguascalientes. I am married and I am studying English Language Teaching at the “Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes” and I wish to be an excellent Teacher. Talking about physical appearence, I am a little girl because my height is around 1.56 meters, I am thin and I have brown eyes and brunette, short hair and big hands. It is important to say that I have different likes and dislikes, life experiences, and plans for the future which are part of my wonderful life.

As I said, there are some things that I love and I hate, but first I will talk about the likes and then dislikes. I like to go to Tamaulipas on vacation because all my family gets together in my grandmother´s house and we do several activities which are fun. Moreover, I enjoy to be with my husband because we like to do similar things such as dancing, watching movies, listening to music, among others. There are not many things that I hate, but one thing, that I cannot stand, is stuck up people because they think that money is very important and they discriminate poor people. I dislike other things, but they are related to food, for example: onion, raw milk, guava, etcetera because since I was a baby, I did not eat them. Those are the main likes and dislikes that I have.

Life experiences are meaningful for me because I have been learning through them. To be with my family is very important because my parents give me advices and help me when I need something, that’s why I appreciate the union with my family. One important life experience is when my dad went to USA because we had a problem and I missed him a lot because of the distance and I have never lived away from him and it helped me to mature and to face difficult situations in my life. Another life experience, which is wonderful, is when I decided to live together with my husband because my parents did not give me the chance to be his girlfriend. It was on June 19th, 2007 and we went to Guanajuato where we knew different places like museums, "El callejón del Beso", etc.

I have in mind many things that I would like to do in the future and I will strugle to have what I want. The first thing is to finish my B.A. because I need to work to have money and then start with the following plans. When I start working, my husband will be working too and we will build a big house with 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1 livingroom, 1 kitchen, and 1 yard with a lot of trees and flowers. The next thing is to travel to different places of the world such as USA, Venice, England, etcetera. If I do not get enough money by working as a Teacher, I will have to work hard and to make different business to get my dreams come true.

As I said before, to know a person requires to know general information, likes , dislikes, life experiences and maybe plans for the future because if you do not know all those, you cannot say that you know a person very well. Those characteristics are very important for me and the person who is my friend know more things about me because I consider that my friends are my second family in the world and they have to know how I am. I shared with you a little parts of my life, and they are the most meaninful things that happened to me, so I hope you keep a secret. Good friends do that, so later you can be my friend if you want and if you can share your experiences with me.
VERONICA DÍAZ LÓPEZ
FIRST ESSAY