Seattle: My New City

Introduction

Seattle is a major coastal seaport and the seat of King County, in the U.S. state of Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of North America and the largest city on the West Coast north of San Francisco. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the United States. The city is situated on a narrow isthmus between Puget Sound (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 114 miles (183 km) south of the Canada–United States border, yet further north than Toronto. In 2010, the container ports in the Seattle metropolitan area (Seattle-Tacoma) were the third busiest in the United States, after Los Angeles-Long Beach and New York-New Jersey, serving as a major gateway for trade with Asia.

Task

You are a physician who works in the University of Washington Medical Center. You live now in Seattle in a beautiful house!

Write to your friends in Mexico explaining where you live (address and your house), where you like to shop, where you have fun and your favorite place in town.

Resources

Below are some sites that will help you accomplish the task.

Websites

• The 20 best places to live
   http://www.seattlemet.com/real-estate/articles/the-best-places-to-live-now-april-2011
• 6 best attractions in Seattle
• http://www.citypass.com/seattle/things-to-do-seattle?mv_source=rkg&creative=13253768429&adpos=1t1&gclid=CPPK-fGPsLICFalgTAod73MAxQ
• Describing places in English
  http://saberingles.com.ar/curso/lesson05/04.html http://saberingles.com.ar/curso/lesson05/04b.html http://saberingles.com.ar/curso/lesson05/05.html http://saberingles.com.ar/curso/lesson05/07.html http://saberingles.com.ar/curso/lesson05/09.html

Process

1. Visit and study all the notes in the websites.
2. Study the notes.
3. Answer the exercises given to you.
4. Write the e-mail attaching some photos of the places you usually visit as well as photos of the different rooms in you house along with their descriptions.

Evaluation

Task completion

3	addresses the writing task effectively
2	some parts of the writing task are not addressed
1	addresses only slight parts of the task

Use of the language

4	displays consistent facility in the use of appropriate language for the task
3	displays facility in the use of language with slight inconsistencies in appropriacy but communication not impaired
2	inconsistent facility with syntax, usage and appropriacy, impairing communication or comprehension
1	serious problems and frequent errors in sentence structure  or usage, obscuring meaning

Form (Organisation)

3	Material well organized
2	Some lack of organization
1	Lack of organisation so severe

Conclusion

Upon completion of this project you will have learned how to describe places.