Lesson# 18 Teaching Integrated Skills Theme #18. Introducing purposes in writing Length: 80 minutes Number of Students: 12 Lesson Outline Lead-in Activity Written and spoken texts Activity Comparing ideas
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Just write: short, inspiring activities to get students writing Group 1. In recent blog posts I have looked at some different aspects of writing in class. Common to all of them has been the point that good preparation is key to producing a successful piece of writing. However, there is also a lot to be said for writing completely unprepared; short, fun activities where, instead of thinking and planning carefully, students just get on with it and write. These sorts of activities can be used as a warmer, or slotted into your lesson to change the focus and pace. They encourage students to see writing as fun and help to develop creativity and confidence. In many cases the activities can also be used as a starting point for longer writing activities, but that’s up to you. Soundtracks Play students a series of short extracts of classical music, with very different moods. If you don’t have your own collection, a good way of doing this is to use the free samples you can play when deciding whether to purchase a download. Tell students each one is part of the soundtrack to a film, and ask them to write down what they imagine as they listen. Where is the film set, what characters are in the scene, what are they doing.. Similarly, play students a short part of a film (perhaps from YouTube), but only let them listen to it (not see it). Again, ask them to write down what they think is taking place and what the scene looks like. They can then see the original and make comparisons. With both these activities, students could then go on to use their snippets of writing as the basis for a story or film-script. Group 2 Visuals Give students a selection of pictures of people. Ask them to choose one each and write a brief description of the person (perhaps as much information as they can put down in 5 minutes). Then put them in pairs and ask them to imagine their two characters meet on a train (or anywhere else you like). They have a further 5-10 minutes to write a conversation between the two. Then take in the pairs of pictures and the dialogues and put them up on the wall, so that the pairs of people are together but the dialogues are separate. Number the dialogues and then ask the students to read them and guess which pair of pictures each dialogue refers to. Similarly, you could use pictures of places and ask students to write a description, or what happened before and will happen next. There are some great pictures taken from Google Earth athttp://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/feb/20/google-street-view-nine-eyes-in- pictures but BE SELECTIVE before the lesson as you might not want some of the pictures flashing up in class! Or show students a photo of a friend of yours or a member of your family and ask them to write about who they think the person is, what they think their personality is like, how you met them etc. Then tell them the truth. Download 0,5 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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