Marg McAlister, a writer on anecdotes says the following about writing :
“Okay, I admit it: I'm a keen(enthusiastic) people-watcher”
“I love to sit in a sidewalk cafe or at a table in a shopping-mall restaurant, and watch the crowd go by. I'm fascinated by snatches of conversation at the next table or (I do draw the line at edging my chair closer so I can hear better!) I like watching mini-dramas being played out between warring couples (in active or conflict)... or friends who are meeting after a long period apart”.

To write "powerful" anecdotes you have to be able to make readers believe in the people in your stories. We have to 'see' these people. That doesn't mean you should stop and describe the colour of their hair and eyes and what they're wearing! The key is the emotions associated with the story you're telling: the customer's body language; hear the frustration and anger in his voice. Let people know what a salesperson is thinking as he/she faces a customer, and how he/she either handles the situation well or loses a sale and a customer .
By showing the emotions and worries of the people in your anecdotes, you're appealing to the emotions of the reader.
It´s not about being intruders!!!but tell an anecdote!!!
An anecdote is a short account of a particular incident or event of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical, not always!!




Here's a sample :
1. The famous actor Cary Grant is said to have been reluctant to reveal his age to the public, having played the youthful lover for more years than would have been appropriate. One day, while he was sorting out some business with his agent, a telegram arrived from a journalist who was desperate to learn how old the actor was. It read: HOW OLD CARY GRANT? Grant, who happened to open it himself, immediately cabled back: OLD CARY GRANT FINE. HOW YOU?
2. On one episode of Grey’s Anatomy, the show’s main plot revolved around an adolescent female patient who is having problems with her reproductive organ. Bex is biologically identified as female yet is often upset and unable to identify with her gender. After a couple of x-rays, George O’Malley, the intern assigned to her, finds that she is equipped with both testes(testicles) and a vagina. The results are released to the parents and then later on, to the girl. Having the reproductive organs of both sexes means that Bex could be given the chance to choose to live the rest of her life as a male or as a female. In the end, she chooses to be identified as male, undergoing surgery.
Bex was a hermaphrodite. (/ˌhər-ˈma-frə-ˌdīt\)




Now, write your anecdote fulfilling the following categories:
1. It is an anecdote (see definition)
2. Connections, ideas, and explanations are
well-developed
3. Accuracy on vocabulary
4. Accuracy on Grammar

JOKES_ Jokes in Direct Speech and Reported Speech

Direct speech is used to give the exact words
used by another speaker. The words are given between quotation marks (" ") in writing:
EG: "I'm coming now," he said.
Indirect Speech (also called Reported Speech) is used to communicate what someone else said, but without using the exact words. The tenses of the verbs are often changed.
EG: He said that he was going to come. (The person's exact words were "I'm going to come.")

You can turn the direct speech into indirect or reported speech:
Example: Paul said, “I need to get ready for a
meeting “ becomes :
Paul said that he needed to get ready for a meeting or Paul told me that he needed to get ready for a meeting. [reported speech]
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Humour or humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours control human health and emotion.

People of all ages and cultures respond to humour. The majority of people are able to experience humour, i.e., to be amused, to laugh or smile at something funny, and thus they are considered to have a sense of humour.
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TASK:
To link the ideas of direct and reported speech with humour is the objective of this blog 2 that you have to develop this week ( up to may 15th). Your task is to laugh at the jokes provided, and you have to make us laugh or smile TELLING TWO JOKES, using direct speech and reported speech!





JOKES
Blind cowboy and blondes
An old, blind cowboy wanders into an all-girl biker bar by mistake. He finds his way to a barstool and orders some coffee. After sitting there for a while, he yells to the waiter, "Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?"

The bar immediately falls absolutely silent.
In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says," Before you tell that joke, Cowboy, I think it is only fair, given that you are blind, that you should know five things:
1. The bartender is a blonde girl with a baseball bat.
2. The bouncer(security guard )is a blonde girl.
3. I'm a 6-foot tall, 175-pound blonde woman with a Black Belt in karate.
4. The woman sitting next to me is blonde and a professional weightlifter.
5. The lady to your right is blonde and a professional wrestler.
"Now, think about it seriously, Mister. Do you still wanna tell that joke?"

The blind cowboy thinks for a second, shakes his head, and mutters, "No....not if I'm gonna have to explain it five times."


A blonde was walking down the street with a pig under her arm. She passed a person who asked where had got that and the pig said that he had won her in a raffle!"



The doctor said to the patient that he was very sick.
The patient asked the doctor if he could get a second opinion?'
The doctor replied again saying that he was very ugly too...'
A man goes to the doctor and says, "Doctor, wherever I touch, it hurts."
The doctor asks, "What do you mean?"
The man says, "When I touch my shoulder, it really hurts. If I touch my knee - OUCH! When I touch my forehead, it really, really hurts."
The doctor says, "I know what's wrong with you - you've broken your finger!
Well, dear students. It´s time for you to make us laugh ! Don’t forget to read and fulfill the requirements!
RUBRIC WILL BE SENT AT SAGAF!!!

Hello dear students Written English III 3rd section
I just can enter the blogs of :
Stephanie , who is the only one who has posted her work of MEMOIRS (10%) whose deadline is April 17th,
Pablo, but with no message .
Would you please ADD me at URL: molmosg.blogspot.com
Thank you
Teacher Marta

MY LIFE EVENTS ( 10%)

Memoirs are a form of personal recollection that has grown enormously in popularity in recent times. Memoirs often focus on more subjective recollections such as memories, feelings, and emotions and are generally written from the first-person viewpoint. The memoir is often focused on capturing certain meaningful highlights or moments.

Memoirs usually focus on a brief period of time or a series of connected events (an autobiography covers a longer time period). In a memoir, the writer is usually retrospective, and contemplating past events. Lastly, writing one's memoir often has a therapeutic effect for the writer.

TASK:

1. Focus on quickly writing down your feelings about the topic

2. Write about your life events in at least 300 words

3. Ask two other students to write down two questions based on what you wrote in comments

4. During the course of this exercise, take notes on common mistakes that occur in your writings.

Some hints to help you recall some of the most important events in your life:

The best thing that happened to me today

The worst thing that happened to me

Something funny that happened to me

What I really hated!

What I really liked!

A surprise I had

A memory from childhood

My best friend

A problem I have

My son

My daughter

My favorite grandparent

Welcome to the new year 2010!!!

welcome my dear students to this new year!!

A) As you can see I am trying to do something more interesting for you by working through these blogs. What we are going to do is some kind of worshops but through the web. I'll ask you to do some writing that I'll correct later.

B) The first thing you have to do is to create your own blog.

1.- Go to www.blogspot.com and click on "crear un blog"
2.- go to the bottom of the page and click on "idioma" and change it already to English
3.- Click on "dashboard" and go a little bit down and click on "add" and start adding your classmates and me, your teacher to molmosg.blogspot.com

good luck! :D