193 4 Love and loss WRITING 39 Write about nature Choose one of the tasks below and write a short text. What are the biggest challenges we face when it comes to taking care of our planet? What can we do to make a difference? or Write a text about a beautiful experience you have had in nature. Use descriptive language to make your text come alive. Example: a trip to the beach, a hike to a mountaintop, a walk in the woods, a journey by boat Think about what you heard, smelled, saw, touched and tasted. How did being in nature make you feel? GRAMMAR 40 Work with adjectives Read the excerpt: Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. a) Write all the adjectives you find in this excerpt. You can read about adjectives on page 268 in the Reference section. b) Rewrite the paragraph without the adjectives. c) What do you think taking out the adjectives does to the text? Write a short explanation. d) Find synonyms and antonyms to the following adjectives: warm, dark, beautiful, horrible, thin An antonym is a word with the opposite meaning to another: the antonym to small is big. Hæfniviðmið • Skrifað um skoðanir sínar, tilfinningar, reynslu og þekkingu með fjölbreyttum orðaforða. • Sýnt góð tök á orða- forða, meginreglum málnotkunar og notað tengiorð við hæfi.
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