Linking ideas: clauses and phrases (05/03 hrs)
- Activities: Provide sentences with linking words such as: because, so, but, although, in spite of, otherwise, except that, apart from. Get them to underline the linking words. Discuss the function of linking words
- Provide more activities.
- Join the ideas in the two columns using linking words.
- Fill in the blanks.
Develop paragraphs: organizing ideas at inter-paragraph level (05/02 hrs)
- Generate ideas using different techniques: brain storming, group/class discussions, reading, illustrations
- Guidelines on organization: beginning, developmental Pattern-content (two or three paragraphs), ending, register, key words
- Writing drafts, conference with the teacher, revising
Informative writing (10/05 hrs)
- Text types: prospectuses, description of places/people
- Focus: conveying information clearly. Consider what the reader wants to know and include relevant details only.
- Present materials clearly, appropriate layout, illustrations and organization
Practical writing (10/05 hrs)
- Text types: CV writing, job applications and covering letters
- Focus on particulars found in an application form, CV format is different from application form
Letter writing- business letters (10/05 hrs)
- Text Types: letters of complaints, letters of orders, banking correspondence
- Focus: use formal and impersonal language
Imaginative writing (10/05 hrs)
- Text types: poetry, short stories, play lets
- Short stories
- Creative use of language. Provide questions/pictures to stimulate writing.
- Provide the beginning; An old man sat on a bench in the park watching children
playing…
- Provide the ending: …I told you it was a joke
- Supply captions or titles as starting points. These can be taken from newspapers. e.g. Boy
saved from drowning.
- Imaginary situations: If I were a parent…
- Poetry
- Playlets
- Text types: write dialogues appropriate to specific situations on different themes and act them out
(group tasks)
- Write and act out scripts for well-known tales, e.g. folk stories
Persuasive and argumentative writing (10/05 hrs)
- Writing skills: giving reasons: e.g. why do people gamble/become vegetarians/keep pets/enjoy watching violet films? (Ref: Language in Use: Upper-Intermediate. Classroom Book.Page40, 50)
- Text types
- Brochures, leaflets, advertisements- on presenting a case influencing the reader.
E.g. Imagine a local radio station has asked you to write a one-minute commercial advertising a new product
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