Writing

Writing winning lessons

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  A crazy story

  Author: Maricruz Garrido Level: Intermediate Type: General lesson plan

  Maricruz Garrido wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson to practise using adjectives to describe people.

• Complaining

  Author: Kat Robb

  Kat Robb wins the Lesson Share competition with this practical activity.

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  Describing pie charts

  Author: Gabrielle Lambrick Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: General lesson plan

  Gabrielle Lambrick wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson about describing pie charts for IELTS Writing Task 1.

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  Describing your neighbour

  Author: Caterina Mastroianni Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate, Advanced Type: General lesson plan

  Caterina Mastroianni wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson to help students think about the structural features of a description.

• Emailing

  Author: Olya Sergeeva Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate, Advanced Type: General lesson plan

  Olya Sergeeva wins this month’s Lesson Share competition with a lesson designed to practise writing work-related emails.

• Fun with articles

  Author: Andrew Starck Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate Type: General lesson plan

  Andrew Starck wins this month’s Lesson Share competition with a lesson that practises using definite and indefinite articles.

• Fun with interview techniques

  Author: Andrew Starck

  Andrew Starck wins the Lesson Share competition with this useful activity.

• IELTS Report writing

  Author: Mairi Joanne Anderson

  Mairi Joanne Anderson wins the Lesson Share competition with this useful activity.

• IELTS writing task 1 – line graphs

  Author: Mairi Joanne Anderson Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate, Advanced Type: General lesson plan

  Mairi Joanne Anderson wins the Lesson Share competition, focusing on how to describe trends and statistics in IELTS writing task 1.

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  Lesson Share: TV shows

  Author: Julian Burnley Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: General lesson plan

  Julian Burnley wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson discussing TV shows.

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  My bucket list

  Author: Karolina Wyrzykowska Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate Type: General lesson plan

  Karolina Wyrzykowska wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson about discussing things students would like to put on their bucket list.

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  Online restaurant review

  Author: Sarah Hall Level: Advanced Type: General lesson plan

  Sarah Hall wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson to help develop appropriate and authentic language used in online restaurant reviews.

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  Problems, problems, problems

  Author: Susan Lucier-Ogawa Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate Type: General lesson plan

  Susan Lucier-Ogawa wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson for practising how much/many, is there/are there any, a few/little/some/a lot of with countable and uncountable nouns.

• Spanish omelette

  Author: Zara Chew Level: Pre-intermediate Type: General lesson plan

  Zara Chew wins this month’s Lesson Share competition with a lesson that practises countable and uncountable nouns.

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  The teen sneaker dealer to the rich and famous

  Author: Marie-Claire Lambert Level: Upper intermediate, Advanced Type: General lesson plan

  Marie-Claire Lambert wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson about business and entrepreneurship.

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  Verb game

  Author: Abigail Kollas Level: Intermediate Type: General lesson plan

  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

  Author: Jane Richards Type: General lesson plan

  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

  Author: Jain Cook

  A comprehensive set of notes and exercises for students on how to write articles for advanced exams.

• Writing: Blockbuster

  Author: Christa Hamilton

  Practising writing and speaking skills as revision or examination preparation.

• Writing: Controlled narrative writing

  Author: Jackie McAvoy

  Jackie McAvoy wins the competition with a lesson that presents and practises narrative writing.

• Writing: Creative writing

  Author: Marcia Murça

  Students summarize well-known stories.

• Writing: Fun with formal letter writing

  Author: Alex Case

  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

  Author: Mark McKinnon

  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

  Author: Paul Ashe

  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

  Author: Jonathan Lewis

  A game in which students create stories for an imaginary newspaper.

• Writing: Writing a short play

  Author: Uzma Ahmad Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate, Advanced Type: General lesson plan

  Students work in groups to write and perform a short play

• Writing: Yearbooks

  Author: Chris Briggs

  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 ...

  Author: Joanna Naporowska

  Joanna Naporowska wins the Lesson Share competition with this writing lesson designed to help students develop their creativity.