Writing skills: causes and results (10/05 hrs)
- Focus: expressions used for describing causes/origins and expressions used for describing results. e.g. was caused by, has become, led to, resulted in, as a result of…
(Ref: Language in Use: Upper Intermediate-classroom Book page 80)
- Activities:
- Read and list the expressions used for talking about causes and results
- Write other expressions which could be used instead.
- Select a headline and expand it into a paragraph, using expressions you have listed.
e.g. Explosion Kills 20 people: leaking gas pipe-damaged when road was repaired-
explosion -20 people killed.
More illiterate children-warns report: cuts in funds-fewer teachers-more children-
unable to raise funds
Informative/ expository writing (10/05 hrs)
- Text types: travel experience, interpret graphs/maps, paraphrasing
- Procedure: guided writing - Help in thinking ideas, ordering them, considering vocabulary and grammar.
Report writing (10/05 hrs)
- Writing reports of discussions, /meetings
- Annual reports: e.g. you are the secretary of the senior literary society. Write the annual report giving an account of the activities of the society during the year
- Present a model with an activity. e.g. Read the following report and fill in the blanks with the words given below.
Imaginative writing (10/05 hrs)
- Encourage students to create stories: Provide questions to stimulate writing. e.g. What ifyou see some aliens in your village?
- Involve students in writing and illustrating books.
- Writing based on pictures-creative dialogues/stories
Persuasive and argumentative writing (10/05 hrs)
- Letters to the editor- Provide opportunities to read and collect different letters from
newspapers. Discuss structure, reason/argument/request etc. Get students to write
their own letters to the editor. Provide the topic and guidelines; help them in
planning, writing and redrafting.
Analytic writing (10/05 hrs)
- Focus: critical and evaluative views of texts, drama, films and issues.
- Take account of the student’s familiarity with the topic. Guide students to form their own view taking into account a range of evidence and opinion and to organize their ideas and information distinguishing between analysis and comment
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