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Writing skills: Fables

An enjoyable one-/two-hour lesson as a basis for writing a fable. Students produce an original fable, using narrative target language.

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Writing skills: formal and informal writing

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.

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Writing skills: Mini saga

Students learn about mini sagas and try to write one themselves.

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Writing skills: Thinking about writing

This lesson looks at a few techniques for ‘thinking’ about writing. There are 3 tasks: brainstorming, loop writing and speed writing.

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Writing: A class or company newsletter

In this lesson by Karen Richardson, students work collaboratively to produce a class newsletter.

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Writing skills: advertising

To raise awareness of the type of language used in advertising.

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Writing skills: news story

To help students produce writing with a higher occurrence of lexical variation, complex sentences and appropriate use of passive structures.

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Writing skills: Letter of complaint

To encourage the use of phrases which express attitude and emotion in a factual letter.

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Writing skills: Cause and effect

To bring attention to the need for lexical variation in a good essay and to increase range of cause and effect phrases and topic related vocabulary.

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Writing skills: statistical report

To teach and practise language relevant to writing a statistical report