writing assignment

Why Cooking is my favorite pastime
Cooking is my chosen activity when I have free time at home; it is beneficial for my health, wellbeing, and helps me strengthen relationships. Firstly, after a stressful day at work there's no better way to unwind than to prepare a delicious meal for loved ones. I find that the process of cooking is one of the best ways to relax because it requires me to focus my mind in order to follow a recipe. When preparing a meal my thoughts are taken away from the day's problems to concentrate on the ingredients in front of me to be able to put them together correctly. Secondly I enjoy cooking because I am able to  express my love for someone, be it a partner, friends or family through taking the time and effort to make meal. When I am cooking for myself I can eat the same simple meal again and again, yet I will happily spend a day in the kitchen practicing new recipes and coming up with an exciting menu when the meal is for others.  Furthermore, I often find it hard to communicate my appreciation for someone, although I can do that with ease through baking a cake for coworkers, cooking a curry for friends or a roast chicken dinner for family members. Thirdly, I like to bring friends and family together by inviting them over to eat. What makes a meal special is the company, enjoying one another's company and spend time together over the dinner table. Nothing unites a family more than a meal together, either for a special occasion or on a daily basis. As a family when I was a child we would always eat dinner together; it was a time to share stories from the day and plans for the week. I've maintained this ritual into adulthood and my fondest memories from the past few years have always been situated around a dinner table. Lastly, I love to travel, and I can recollect past travels by cooking meals from different countries where I have visited. For these reasons instead of coming home from work and picking up the remote control, I always pick up a recipe book!

writing assignment practice

Cooking

Identify and describe a favorite activity or interest and provide at least four reasons why this activity or interest holds your attention and/or is enjoyable to you.

Topic #3 

1. Inventing
2. Organizing
3. Drafting
4. Revising
5. Editing

Inventing

I enjoy eating - cooking is a way to taste new things

I enjoy cooking for others and the recognition that comes from cooking enjoyable food for others

it's a way of expressing my love and care for someone

eating a meal is social time and time to be spent with love ones

a meal can reflect a person's culture and country

it focuses my mind on an activity that involves my concentration - forces me to keep focused

your food is effected by your emotions

there is a clear result at the end of the process

organizing

• Topic - cooking
• Topic sentence - Cooking is my favorite way of spending freetime in my home; it is beneficial for my health, wellbeing and strengthening relationships.
• Supporting Points
• Specific example - After a long day at work there's no better way to unwind like cooking a meal for loved one. 
• Explanation - The process of cooking is a great way to relax. Following a recipe requires focusing the mind, taking thoughts away from the days problems to concentrate on preparing a meal.
• I enjoy eating. There us nothing like homecooked food. I love trying new types of food from different parts of the world. I could not afford to eat out at the time. 
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• Specific example.  To prepare a meal with love for someone is the way I express my my love for someone, be it a partner, friends or family.
  • Explanation - The cooking process involves our emotions. People often argue that their mom's cooking is the best, and it may well be to that person because the food has been prepared with love by the parent.  that with how your mom's homecooked food tastes? Is it because the have the best ever recipe for spag bol or that it was made lovingly for the family.
  Specific Example  - I bring people together with the food I prepare.
  • Explanation - It is common that I don't cook elaborate meals when preparing food for myself. What makes a meal special is people coming together to share the food, enjoy one another's company and spend time together over the dinner table.
  • Specific Example - I can learn about a different culture through trying their recipes.
• Concluding Sentence Therefore next time you are about to suggest to go out for a meal, you should go pick up a recipe book.

Prepositional, absolute, appositive

Wirksworth, in the Midlands, does not have any attractive cities in close reach.
Close to Middleton, Wirksworth does not have a regular bus service to get.
Excluding the Royal Oak, there are no friendly pubs which have decent ale.
Except for September, there aren't as many cultural events as one might wish to access all year around.
Because Wirksworth is fairly rural, it is not a diverse town.

Lorries passing throughout the night, it is difficult to sleep at night.
Dust traveling through the air from the mine, many people suffer from asma.
ice freezing on the roads, it becomes treacherous to travel by road in the winter.

Kens Mini Market, a small store in town does not have a large variety of fresh good available.
The small ever-shrinking market that operates ever Tuesday is getting less and less attractive to shop at.
The greasy dirty fish-an-chip shop always has a huge cue of waiting customers outside.
The town church, stone and old.

To visit for one day, is not enough time
To come to Wirksworth on a rainy day, is not much fun.
To see Wirksworth through a visitor's eyes, would be interesting.
Cold, grey and raining to see Wirksworth in the winter months can be disappointing.

Frozen, in the winter Wirksworth is really cold.
Tired from travelling so far, Simone realized that her town was too far from London.
Sparkling in the snow, the town was cold in winter.

adjective clauses and adverbial clauses

Ben, who lives in Wirksworth, thinks it's the best place to live in England.
The market, to whom Wirksworth gets its name, has organic vegetables on sale.
Wirksworth that is located in Matlock has beautiful views.
Wirksworth, which is a small market town, has its own brewery.
The Royal Oak, whose back garden joins onto my backyard,  has the best real ale in the county.
Well Dressing is the busiest time of the year in Wirksworth when many visitors come to see the tradition.
There are a variety of public footpaths where keen walkers can stroll over the rolling hills above the town.

Because Wirksworth is in a valley, there are fantastic views from the surrounding hillsides.
Although Wirksworth is a fair distance from the Midlands' largest cities the scenery makes up for this.
Whenever I walk into town I come across people I know.
Rather than traveling to the large commercial cinema in Derby, you should visit Northen Light, our very own independent cinema.
So that you can enjoy everything that Wirksworth has to offer, it is best to visit in the warmer months.
After visiting our town tourists never want  to leave.

She bought a pound of tomatoes
he was looking for someone selling bread
we wanted to buy beers
everyone is pushing each other
they left to find brocoli
someone stole my wallet
nobody wanted to buy aubergine
you bought tomatoes
come with me to find papayas
they are going to eat lunch
I dream of finding cous cous.

He looked for someone selling bread
we searched for beers
everyone pushed each other
nobody bought aubergine
we found papayas
they ate lunch

Subjects and verbs

I went to the market
She bought a pound of tomatoes
he was looking for someone selling bread
we wanted to buy beers
everyone is pushing each other
they left to find brocoli
someone stole my wallet
nobody wanted to buy aubergine
you bought tomatoes
come with me to find papayas
they are going to eat lunch
I dream of finding cous cous.

Nouns from work
desk
sewing machine
Juanita
pila
microwave
coffee
sofa
computer

adjectives
messy
clean
stressed
full
open
delicious
comfy
new

verbs and adverbs
writing slowly
quietly stressing
working
lightly watering the plants
noisely drinking
secretly eating
sewing neatly

Simone is writing slowly at her messy desk.
The open microwave is working
Juanita is working quietly on her clean computer
Simone is lightly watering the plants before lying down on the new sofa
Margarita is sewing neatly a handwoven bag at her sewing machine.