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Writing
How to make English spelling interesting (or even fun)
Inspired by Youssef Mezrigui’s “S is for spelling- and success” in English Teaching Professional magazine, July 2009 English spelling can seem difficult, random and endless even to native speakers, so there is an obvious need to liven its practice up in most EFL classes. Scrabble and Boggle don’t work very well with non native speakers, [...]
Yet another 15 ways to make writing interactive
1. Interview and write Students interview their partner and write it up as an article, CV, letter of application etc. The person who was interviewed then reads it to check for facts and whether they’d like anything added. You could also have several people writing up the same interview and comparing their finished pieces of [...]
Making writing interactive
1. Collaborative writing Getting students to write together automatically means there is interaction between them. Possible problems when doing this include: the stronger or more dominant student having the pen and the others doing nothing, students doing all their speaking in L1 and only writing in English, students and groups who concentrate too much on [...]
Writing Creatively in Another Language
Even beginner learners can be creative in the way they use language |
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