Writing
A selection of writing-themed lesson shares including a nice story practising adjectives and a game to create stories for an imaginary newspaper.
Writing winning lessons
A crazy story
Maricruz Garrido wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson to practise using adjectives to describe people.
Complaining
Kat Robb wins the Lesson Share competition with this practical activity.
Describing pie charts
Gabrielle Lambrick wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson about describing pie charts for IELTS Writing Task 1.
Describing your neighbour
Caterina Mastroianni wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson to help students think about the structural features of a description.
Emailing
Olya Sergeeva wins this month’s Lesson Share competition with a lesson designed to practise writing work-related emails.
Fun with articles
Andrew Starck wins this month’s Lesson Share competition with a lesson that practises using definite and indefinite articles.
Fun with interview techniques
Andrew Starck wins the Lesson Share competition with this useful activity.
IELTS Report writing
Mairi Joanne Anderson wins the Lesson Share competition with this useful activity.
IELTS writing task 1 – line graphs
Mairi Joanne Anderson wins the Lesson Share competition, focusing on how to describe trends and statistics in IELTS writing task 1.
Spanish omelette
Zara Chew wins this month’s Lesson Share competition with a lesson that practises countable and uncountable nouns.
The teen sneaker dealer to the rich and famous
Marie-Claire Lambert wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson about business and entrepreneurship.
Verb game
Abigail Kollas wins this month’s Lesson Share with a game practising the past simple and past participle forms of irregular verbs.
Writing: A nice story
Jane Richards wins the Lesson Share competition with this original and useful lesson to encourage students to use a wide range of adjectives, rather than depending on high-frequency lexical items such as good, nice and bad.
Writing: Article writing for CAE / CPE
A comprehensive set of notes and exercises for students on how to write articles for advanced exams.
Writing: Blockbuster
Practising writing and speaking skills as revision or examination preparation.
Writing: Controlled narrative writing
Jackie McAvoy wins the competition with a lesson that presents and practises narrative writing.
Writing: Creative writing
Students summarize well-known stories.
Writing: Fun with formal letter writing
A fun, interactive lesson to introduce formal letters for pre-intermediate and above. Students analyze useful sentence stems in context and then practise them with an interactive, competitive writing game.
Writing: Hollywood: Present perfect practice
The aim of this exercise is to practise the present perfect and past simple in an authentic context by producing a magazine article at the end of the lesson.
Writing: My life
In this winning lesson by Paul Ashe, students compile an autobigraphy in English. Perfect for summer project work or for getting to know your class at the start of a new term.
Writing: The reporter game
A game in which students create stories for an imaginary newspaper.
Writing: Writing a short play
Students work in groups to write and perform a short play
Writing: Yearbooks
A short but very useful lesson plan for the end of the school year. Students work together to write yearbook entries for each member of class.
You can't visit me because ...
Joanna Naporowska wins the Lesson Share competition with this writing lesson designed to help students develop their creativity.
