Writing: mini things + lesson plan

Submitted 6 years 2 months ago by Katherine Bilsb.... This lesson plan for teachers of older teenage and adult students level B1 is about writing. Students will develop editing and accuracy. Introduction Sometimes when we ask students to write a composition they spend very little time at the important editing stage. In this lesson students will do a couple of ‘short writing’ activities with the focus on editing and accuracy. Topic Mini sagas Level Lower intermediate B1 Time 60 mins Aims: To help students learn how to edit their writingTo help students understand that ‘quality’ is more important than ‘quantity’ when it comes to writingTo develop students’ writing skills Materials Lesson plan: download Worksheets: download By Katherine Bilsborough The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format - right click on the attachment and save it on your computer. Copyright - please read All the materials on these pages are free for you to download and copy for educational use only.

Approaches to process writing What is process writing? Why should teachers be interested in a process approach to writing? The changing roles of teacher and students What stages are there in a process approach to writing? Classroom activities The importance of feedback Writing as communication Potential problems Further reading What is process writing? Why should teachers be interested in a process approach to writing? Research also shows that feedback is more useful between drafts, not when it is done at the end of the task after the students hand in their composition to be marked. The changing roles of teacher and students The teacher needs to move away from being a marker to a reader, responding to the content of student writing more than the form. What stages are there in a process approach to writing? Pre-writing The teacher needs to stimulate students' creativity, to get them thinking how to approach a writing topic. Evaluating, structuring and editing Now the writing is adapted to a readership. Focusing ideas

Guided writing: Writing a story on the OHP (+ procedures) Guided writing: Writing a story on the OHP Submitted by admin on 27 June, 2007 - 13:00 This activity can be used with intermediate and upper-intermediate students and practises fluency as well as story-writing skills. It offers free practice of narrative tenses and sequential linking words, and helps foster cooperation and a sense of achievement as students work together to prepare and write their stories. It also solves the problem of giving up valuable class time to lengthy writing exercises and stops writing being such a lonely experience. Preparation Cut up an OHT into three strips for each group of 3-4 students. Procedure Step 1 Tell your students they are going to write a story entitled ‘A Wonderful Day’ and that they are going to be the narrator in the story. Step 2 In the second circle write ‘Morning’ and ask the students to decide what I did to make it such a wonderful day and write up their ideas. Step 3 Step 4 Alan Finch, British Council Paris Printer-friendly version