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Writing skills: formal and informal writing
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    Writing: A class or company newsletter
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    Writing skills: Cause and effect
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    Writing skills: Fables
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    Writing skills: formal and informal writing
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    Writing skills: Letter of complaint
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Writing skills: formal and informal writing

By Jackie McAvoy

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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.

Photo of an informal text next to a formal one. They don't have to be entire texts, the beginnings will suffice. The important thing is that the language shows the difference in formality.

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    Writing skills

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    Writing: A class or company newsletter

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    Writing skills: advertising

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    Writing skills: Cause and effect

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    Photo of a famous fable's characters. E.g.: the fox and the grapes, the tortoise and the hare, etc.

    Writing skills: Fables

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    Photo of an informal text next to a formal one. They don't have to be entire texts, the beginnings will suffice. The important thing is that the language shows the difference in formality.Currently reading

    Writing skills: formal and informal writing

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    Writing skills: Letter of complaint

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    Photo of a student/s writing

    Writing skills: Mini saga

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    Writing skills: news story

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    Writing skills: statistical report

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    Photo of a student/s writing (can be in a notebook or on a laptop).

    Writing skills: Thinking about writing

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