This book offers a wealth of ideas and activities to practise and develop writing skills. It introduces different approaches to teaching writing, managing writing lessons and giving feedback. It covers all language levels from A1 to C2 and explores a range of writing contexts and text types, helping learners to write effectively for exams, share information and ideas in academic situations and the workplace, and navigate everyday situations such as completing forms.
Teaching and Developing Writing Skills provides practical, research-based activities to help you support your learners to communicate effectively in writing.
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Teaching and Developing Writing Skills provides practical, research-based activities to help you support your learners to communicate effectively in writing.
1 Writing about yourself and other people Example genres: class
profiles, introductory email (e.g. to homestay family), business CV, job
application, online work profile, descriptions of people, family history,
childhood experiences 2 Writing to people you know Example genres:
invitations, personal catch up, announcing news, congratulations, asking for
help/favours, asking for and responding to advice 3 Writing to share ideas
and opinions Example genres: blog post explaining your opinion on a topic,
reacting to news, reviewing something you've seen/heard/read/eaten,
email/letter to editor, discursive essays 4 Writing to get something done
Example genres: request for information, enquiry, reply to enquiry, making
bookings, complaints, giving feedback on product/service, 5 Writing
expressively Example genres: fictional stories, personal experiences,
poems, character profiles 6 Writing for academic contexts Example genres:
essays, reports, description of data in graphs/charts, paraphrase, summary,
references 7 Writing for business Example genres: reports, proposals,
summaries, presentation slides 8 Teacher Development Background reading for
discussion, suggestions for action research, approaches to giving students
feedback, suggestions for standardizing the assessment of student writing.
