All Writing articles – Page 6

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Assessment matters: Designing your own tests

Adrian Tennant explores some of the issues behind designing your own tests and gives some practical examples of how to go about it.

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Sherlock: The Second Stain

In the final chapters, Holmes visits Hope’s house and the scene of the crime.

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Lesson Share: Complaining

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

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Beyond: Arts and Media: Performance Art

In this lesson, students can create and discuss their own musicals and street performances.

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Sherlock: The Second Stain: Chapter 4

In Chapter 4, Holmes has only one concern: to save Europe from war.

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Lesson Share: IELTS Report writing

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

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Beyond: Knowledge: Discoveries and inventions

In this four-part lesson, students will test their memories / knowledge, read about scientific discoveries and inventions, invent something new, and complete a patent form for a new invention.

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Sherlock: The Second Stain: Chapter 3

In Chapter 3, Holmes still hopes to intercept the terrible letter, and he has a lead.

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Beyond: Arts and Media: Magazines

In this lesson, students can exchange celebrity gossip and create their own magazine.

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Writing matters: Planning, drafting and editing

Writing is a process. Good writers plan what they will write, come up with ideas, draft, revise and edit. This article will give some practical ideas for how students can be taught to become good writers.

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Beyond: Knowledge: Numbers

In this two-part lesson, students match numbers with pictures, find numbers in the classroom, play a numbers game and complete a ’fill a head with numbers’ fact sheet.

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Sherlock: The Norwood Builder: Chapter 2

In Chapter 2, Inspector Lestrade arrests McFarlane in Holmes’s apartment, but Holmes asks the inspector to let McFarlane speak before they take him away. Lestrade gives him just half an hour to tell his side of the story.

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Matura: Writing: Nature and Environment

In this lesson focusing on nature and the environment, students can build their vocabulary and learn how to write about the natural world using descriptive language.

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Beyond: Arts and Media: Soap operas

In this lesson, students read about soap operas and write their own soap opera scene.

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Matura: Writing: Sport

In this lesson focusing on sport, students learn how to describe the benefits of sport and how to use persuasive language.

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Matura: Writing: Tourism

In this lesson focusing on writing reports, students learn how to summarize information, and to compare and contrast the information in tourism reports.

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Macmillan Life Skills: Critical Thinking – Movie review

In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students use pictures to write their own film review developing the following life skills: expressing opinions, analysing information and critical thinking.

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Macmillan Life Skills: Critical Thinking – Reviews

In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students brainstorm vocabulary for writing a restaurant review, read some example reviews and write their own developing the following life skills: expressing an opinion, critical thinking (analysis and evaluation).

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Matura: Writing: World of Work

In this lesson focusing on writing emails, students learn to spot differences between formal and informal emails, and pick up useful phrases in an interview exercise.

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Lesson Share: Macmillan Life Skills: Study Skills – Short answer questions

In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students become experts on obscure topics and practice skimming to find answers to questions their classmates have written developing the following life skills: analysing and extracting key information, evaluating content of a reply or argument, and time management.