Writing skills lesson plans
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Resources for teaching writing in the classroom. These lesson plans and materials are appropriate for general English classes, for Exams classes, for EAP and for all types of English.
Writing skills lesson plans
Writing skills: advertising
To raise awareness of the type of language used in advertising.
Writing skills: news story
To help students produce writing with a higher occurrence of lexical variation, complex sentences and appropriate use of passive structures.
Writing skills: Letter of complaint
To encourage the use of phrases which express attitude and emotion in a factual letter.
Writing skills: Cause and effect
To bring attention to the need for lexical variation in a good essay and to increase range of cause and effect phrases and topic related vocabulary.
Writing skills: Fables
An enjoyable one-/two-hour lesson as a basis for writing a fable. Students produce an original fable, using narrative target language.
Writing skills: Mini saga
Students learn about mini sagas and try to write one themselves.
Writing skills: statistical report
To teach and practise language relevant to writing a statistical report
Writing skills: formal and informal writing
To enable students to break down the different features of formal and informal English by working through a step-by-step text transformation at their own pace.
Writing skills: Thinking about writing
This lesson looks at a few techniques for ‘thinking’ about writing. There are 3 tasks: brainstorming, loop writing and speed writing.
Writing: A class or company newsletter
In this lesson by Karen Richardson, students work collaboratively to produce a class newsletter.
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