Email Content
Who sent the email, and who is receiving it?
Sender = Dinda F. Lilipaly
Recipient = Ronan O'Brien.
What two food items did Dinda eat for lunch that "tasted really good"?
Fried chicken and ice cream.
What is the 3-part grammar pattern used for sensory descriptions in Dinda's text?
[ Subject ] + [ __________ ] + [ Adjective ]
Linking Verb / Sensory Linking Verb
(e.g., look, feel, smell, sound, taste, seem).
What greeting and what sign-off phrase does Dinda use in her email?
Greeting = "Hi Ronan,"
Sign-off = "Cheers,".
Name the sensory word Dinda used to describe the sky (Sight) and the sensory word used to describe the air (Smell).
Sky = blue (looked blue)
Air = awful (smelled awful).
Identify the linking verb and the adjective in this sentence from Paragraph 3: "The air smelled awful."
Linking verb = smelled |
Adjective = awful.
In Paragraph 1, what 3 essential pieces of background information does Dinda give about the trip?
The Event (social event)
The Location (poor neighborhood in Jakarta), and
The Companion (her school).
Find two emotional/feeling adjectives in the text starting with 'C' and 'G' that describe Dinda's feelings at the beginning vs. the end of her visit.
Curious (Paragraph 2)
and Grateful (Paragraph 5).
Identify the two linking verbs used in Paragraph 4 during the fun games and singing section.
seemed and sounded ("The kids seemed and sounded very happy.")
Dinda ends her email with a question in Paragraph 5. What question does she ask Ronan?
"Did you have anything interesting last semester break?"
Find two visual clues (Sight) in Paragraph 3 that Dinda observed about the neighborhood environment.
Houses without windows (looked unhealthy) and garbage everywhere.
Fix the error! "The kids tasted very excited when they welcomed us with smiling faces."
Replace 'tasted' with looked
Look at the main body structure of the email. In what order does Dinda organize her paragraphs?
-(A) Lunch → Arrival → Event Activities → Background
-(B) Background → Arrival & Surroundings → Event Activities & Lunch → Final Feeling
(B) (Background → Arrival/Surroundings → Activities/Lunch → Final Feeling).
What two evidence clues in Paragraph 3 and Paragraph 4 showed Dinda that the kids were happy to see them?
They had smiling faces (looked excited) and were
singing/playing games (sounded/seemed very happy)
Explain the difference in meaning: Why does Dinda use "looked" for the sky ("The sky looked very blue") but "felt" for herself ("I felt really curious")?
"Looked" describes an external visual observation (sight), while "felt" describes an internal emotion / mind state.