From questions to story writing. A creative writing activity: A dark and stormy night. Submitted 48 years 7 months ago by admin. This is an idea I learned when I first started teaching and still use to this day. The main focus of the activity is on developing writing skills, but it's also good for developing listening and reading skills and also for practising past tenses and descriptive vocabulary. The activity should work at most levels above elementary, as long as your students have some knowledge of past tenses, but it works best when they also know past continuous / progressive too.
All you need to get things started is a sheet of plain paper for each pair of students. The listening part comes first: Ask the students to draw the face of a person in the top right-hand corner of the page. In this way they build up a character profile for the person they are going to write about. The writing part: Now dictate the following sentence to your students: 'It was a dark and stormy night and'. Follow up: Nik Peachey, Teacher, Trainer, Materials writer, British Council. Writing: mini things. Submitted 6 years 2 months ago by Katherine Bilsb.... This lesson plan for teachers of older teenage and adult students level B1 is about writing.
Students will develop editing and accuracy. Introduction Sometimes when we ask students to write a composition they spend very little time at the important editing stage. In this lesson students will do a couple of ‘short writing’ activities with the focus on editing and accuracy. Topic Mini sagas Level Lower intermediate B1 Time 60 mins Aims: To help students learn how to edit their writingTo help students understand that ‘quality’ is more important than ‘quantity’ when it comes to writingTo develop students’ writing skills Materials Lesson plan: download Worksheets: download By Katherine Bilsborough The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format - right click on the attachment and save it on your computer.
Copyright - please read All the materials on these pages are free for you to download and copy for educational use only. Essays and Other Writing Activities for Early Writers: EnchantedLearning. Machine Stories Writing Activities. I've invented (or borrowed) a few extraordinary machines and put them into your child(ren)'s hands. What happens when they use them? Again, either your child(ren) can write the stories on their own or, together, you can create the tales. This machine lets you travel in time. Forwards or backwards. You can set it for hours, days, years, or centuries. How far into the past or the future do you go? This machine lets you travel in space. Where do you go? This machine lets you go anywhere at any time.
Where and when did you go? © 1999 Stuart B Baum Point this machine at any animal or thing. At what did you point the machine? This machine gives you one superpower. What did you choose? Send me your solution to this writing activity (solution form). Entries we like will receive a StuartStories pen.The younger the writer, the more likely we’ll send out a pen. Of course, it's completely subjective and everyone wins just by playing.
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