Session teaching writing in english lesso

1. Learning Outcomes

Objectives: to help participants to understand the session outcomes

Time: 5 minutes

Materials: none

Interaction: plenary

Procedure:

 Ask participants to work in pairs. Nominate them As and Bs.

 Distribute Handout A to As and Handout B to Bs.

 Say that As will dictate their sentence to Bs. Then Bs will dictate their sentence to A.

 Ask them to check their mini dictations.

 Say that these are the learning outcomes of the session.

Answer Key – see Learning Outcomes

2. Lead in

Objectives:

o raise teachers’ awareness of the topic, o to prepare for the next stage

Time: 10 min

Materials: none

Interaction: pair work, plenary

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 Ask teachers to answer the question: What do people write in real life?

 Write their ideas on the blackboard. Accept all ideas.

Possible answers

Letters, e-mails, shopping lists, diaries, notes, lectures, lesson plans, poems, novels, articles, essays

 Ask teachers to answer the following question:

1. What’s the main aim of writing? (Answer key: communication.)