Describe a family gathering

MEMORABLE FAMILY GATHERING

For some people, the family gathering is a regular activity in new year. We had a significant family gathering this year because that was my father's dying wish at the point of death. He hoped his all posterity, such as sons, daughters and grandchildren can come home and so on. So, we had a dinner party the third day of Chinese New Year's Day(2006). This was indeed the most memorable day of my life.

My father died a serious illness of lung in 12/28/2005. He was sick ever after he reached the age of sixty year olds. The first he just ill lightly, suddenly he became serious three years ago. Unfortunately, he could not pulled through the difficult illness to die last year. So, all people were very sad, especially my mother, who just lost the first daughter in October, subsequently she also lost her husband. My father loved his family and hoped we could have a party together in his life.

The family gathering was very affectingly. We prepared many delicious dishes. My mother was greatly glad when the thirty-seven childern came back to attend the party. Finally she gave the red envelopes to everybody except her sons and daughters. Meanwhile we videoed the lovely situation as a memory. I thought my father certainly enjoyed it in heaven.

This was my first family gathering for everybody since I born. I liked the party because it could promote and connect with our affections to each other. I hope we could have the gathering in the future new year.

writing about my hometown and home

My Hometown

I am from the Xi-Gang of Tainan County. All villagers are alomost farmer. Their living conditions in the village are still quite primitive. The river, Zeng-Wen-River, is locate in the southern part of the village. There is a bridge above river. I often come here -the river in the evening to appreciate the sunsent until the sky gets dark.

My Home

Now I live in Nine-Zi of Kaohsiung in southwest of Taiwan. The Nine - Zi township is in the northern Kaohsiung and the weather is often very hot. My house is on the fourth floor terraced house in the suburb and beside the Zhong-Shan freeway . It is very big and typical house and you can see the freeway from our porch. There is a shopping mall behind my house, a children's park with the slide and swing at the right side place and some schools near my home. So, It is convenient for shopping and studying. The children play on the swings in the park. My neighbors are fantastic. They are really friendly.

About places

The first floor is garage, a hall and kitchen. You find a big garage when you visit me in the porch. After you go through the hallway, a deluxe hall appears before your eyes. For example, The great hall was decorated with wallpaper and wood on the ceiling and wall. And the settee is put both side hall along the wall. A paino is located on the right of hall by the sofa. There are many wines inside a big cellaret in the front center. Follow the way, There is a door that leads to the small kitchen. I make dilicious food for my families.

I love my hometown and home because I have a lot of happy time and memories there.

writing describing people-Linda

Linda is my darling daughter. She is a slender young girl of average height. She has long straight black hair with bangs that touch the top of her glasses. She has a elliptic face, big beautiful eyes, freckles, a dimple in her chin, hight nose and brown skin. Altogether, my daughter is a beautiful girl.

She usually wear her favorite T-shirt, jeans and a new pair of white leather shoes. However she does not like dark clothes, For example, black, brown....ect. She hates to wear a dress and skirt because it is not safety device which she think. She puts on a golden necklace, earrings and backpack when she goes out.

Linda is a very intelligent and gifted girl. For instance, She gets hight score of examination at school. She is a honest person, friendly and lively person. Also she is very musical and artistic as she plays the piano very well and draws cartoons well. She plays the jazz music by paino every weekend. So, we will listen to the dulcet music next weekend.

The shopping habit of the women

Shopping habit of women
Nowadays, going shopping is usually a recreational activity for women. Because by nature women love being beautiful. They will, moreover, choose beautiful dress, pearls and jewels, cosmetics and handbag... etc. to follow the most up-to-date fashion every day. The women often talk about shopping together. So, women spend time going window-shopping at the Department stores and Shopping malls on holiday or weekdays. They are expense for satisfied request or desire. They form the shopping habit in their life.

First, the women go to shopping on holiday or weekdays/regular hours. The working women always like to go shopping together with their good friends at holidays or vacation. And they buy many pretty goods every time. In addition, the housewives is at home whole day. Therefore they have much more time to spend on shopping.

Aside from time, there are three main places where women can choose to go to shopping :the department stores,the shopping malls, and the Internet shops. The department store offers comfortable facility, good service and luxurious equipment. The dpartment store shows the latest fashion and what is most popular of the world. All articles of fine quality are very beautiful, including many brands of worldwide. But the price of goods are much more expensive than those in the shopping mall. So, it is hard for women to control budget, Sometimes they would spend more than they should .The advantage of the shopping mall is it very convenient. It has facilities such as the parking space and the supermarket. Many kinds of goods are often on sale. People can buy things at a cheaper price.The website shopping is modern way. If you have a computer, you can go shopping at home. Overall you use the website to buy products from any countries in the world. The online shoppers are almost young ladies.

Finally, for many women, purchasing goods give them a great sense of pleasure. However, at the same time, the expense can be huge. Therefore some women usually pay the money by the credit card use. Maybe sometimes the decision to buy the goods is base on their requirement, but sometimes they just want to fulfill their desire. So, in the end, some women may may spend more than what they should.

Shopping is a recreation activity for women.They prefer to go with the stream. So, they like the action of shopping and dress up to become beautiful women every day.

The paragraph for shopping way

Writing Process Prompts
1.Understanding the assignment
Assignment: Discuss the shopping habit of woman
Length: 200-300words
Due date: 1/23
Narrowed topic:Shopping habit of woman

2.Determining the writing context and formulating a main idea
Purpose: Inform
Audience: Woman
Tone: Humorous
Tentative main idea: Shopping way of woman has many kinds

3.Generating supporting ideas:

4.Organizing ideas:
Map Templte:
Topic Sentence: Shopping way

Nowadays, going shopping is not only an economic activity, but also a recreational activity for women. There are three main places where women can choose to go shopping: the department sotres, the shopping malls, and the Internet shops.

The department store offers comfortable facility, good service and luxurious equipment. The dpartment store shows the latest fashion and what is most popular of the world. All articles of fine quality are very beautiful, including many band of worldwide. But the price of goods are much more expensive than those in the shopping mall. So, it is hard for women to control budget, Sometimes they would spend more than they should .

The advantage of the shopping mall is it very convenient. It has facilities such as the parking space and the supermarket. Many kinds of goods are often on sale. People can buy things at a cheaper price.

The website shopping is modern way. If you have a computer, you can go shopping at home. Overall you use the website to buy products for all countries in the world. The shopper is almost young ladies.

A Karaoke-party

We are going to have a Karaoke-party this Sunday at 5:00 P.M.!

Hi every body :

This is an invitation letter to inform you how to arrive at the place of the karaoke-party. So far the term has started for one month. I would like to hold a party in order to help all the schoolmates to get to know each other. We chose to have a Karaoke and invite you to join the party. The party will take place is the Cash-Boxparty-KTV in Tainan. Please follow the directions to go to the place. Please see the information as follows:

• The first option:If you go by train please go traight down and across an underground passage when you are out from the train station, you pass the traffic light, then turn left on Zhong-Shan Road.You will find the bus station and by bus from train station to Cash-Boxparty-KTV, in other words, you get off at Tayih-Landies of Si-Men Road, then turn left again, stop when you get to Heyi Road.The KTV is located on the first floor of Tayih-Landies about the corner. I have reserved the room in 705 room of 17 floor.
• The second option is to go by car on the freeway, please get off the freeway at the Yung-Kang. You come from the New-City, then you might turn right and go straight on the Zhong-Zheng North Road, Zhong-Zheng South road and Si-Men Road. When you find Tayih-Landies, please stop your car and turn left on Heyi Road.

We have activities such as singing, dancing, gift exchanging and of course delicious food. you have to prepare a song or two song and bring a gift. The following is schedule for your reference.

1. Party date:10/15
2. Party time:Start on 5:00 P.M. and end on 8:00 P.M.
3. Venue:Cash Boxparty KTV(near the Tayih-Landis)
4. Expenses:NT 300 dollars /one person.
5. Food offered : Buffet
6. Tel: 06-XXXXXX
7. Reply deadline:10/14 5:00 P.M.

I hope you could accept my invitation. It will be a pity if you miss the good time. I look forward to seeing you on Sunday....

Eleanor

letter to Joden

October 5, 2006

Dear Joden,
How are you doing? After you go to taipei ,we could not meet you for a long time. Please send my regards to your wife and children too. I think they have a good day.

The Mid-Autumn Festival will be coming. It is very nice that have for five holiday running this time. All family members should come back and eat dinner together with us. Do you have any plan to pass the Mid-Autumn Festival's night? For example, barbecue or eat a chafing dish or go to outside to travel... etc.? I belive you will arrange your schedule for this holiday very well.

Do you have any plan in the future? Do you know what happen to me recently? I went to school to study English. Our classmates are young only I am an old student. I think it's a bit late for me to go to school again at this age. I can see all schoolmates are full of energy and youth. But I still feel very lucky to learn english with them. If you have any plan, please let me know.

How about your job? Your work should be smooth and your boss like your professional knowledge in machine. You chose a good company to serve for seventeen years. I think the job give you a lots achievement.

If you have any information please let me know by e-mail or cell phone, in the meantime I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Truly yours,

Eleanor Lin

self introduction

Hi,every body:
My self introduction as follows:
My name is eleanor. I was born in tainan, but now I live in kaohsiung. I got married to my husband (Joden) in 1986 and have a blest family and breed two sons & one daughter.The first son, Addison, studies junior years of National Chengchi University in taipei. The second son, John, studies in a senior hight school and my daughter, Linda, studies in a senior hight school too. I think my children are very excellent, they are my love. My husband works in sumitomo company as senior manager and studies for a master degree in National Cheng Kung University now.

After I got married, I looked after our chirlden for ten years at home and waited for our daughter to get three years old and so that I could go back to work again. I needed to work again because I bought the first house in 1991 and had to pay the mortgage. Coming back to work after ten years is not so easy. I left the job ten years ago, and the first challenge I faced was the computer skills at work. Taking computer class on typing and microsoft office skills was my first. After my computer class finished I looked for a semiconductor company and worked in purchasing department. Therefore I have ten-year working experience in purchasing, material control, and asistance. I wrote the e-mial to our customer by English when I was in purchasing department.I must have excellent computer skills in microsoft office of Excell and Word and Powerpoint and good command of English. However I think the writing the english skills on the job is important. I make up my mind to attend to the college of test this time. My second job at present is at the employment service center in tainan, therefore, I have to drive from kaohsiung to tainan every day. I hurry up to go to school when I am duty off at 5:30. It spend 35 minute from work place to school. It is very busy for me in the future.

I graduated from industrial manager faculty of Southern Taiwan of technology college for a long time. This is my first time in university after twenty years and major in Englis in order to learning language ability. Proficiency in Englis skills, especially writing, conversation and listining is very important at the present time. Now that I have started class and find out I am a older student in the class. All the schoolmates are very young, only I and kim look older. However, I am very motivated to learn English well. I think learning english is worth the hard work. I am willing to devote all energies to complete all the tasks. I am sure you can! keep on the good work!.