Session teaching writing in english lesso

3. Challenges in writing

Objective: to explore challenges learners have in writing

Time: 10 min

Materials: none

Interaction: whole class

Procedure:

 Ask teachers to name writing tasks they give to their learners.

 Ask: What problems do your learners face in writing?

Possible answers

Lack of vocabulary, lack of ideas, learners are not interested, etc.

 Say that you will come back to these problems in the end of the session.

4. Demo Writing Task

Objective: to raise teachers’ awareness in necessity of giving support to learners

Time: 25 min

Materials: none

Interaction: individual, group work

Procedure:

Pre-writing stage

 Say that you will demonstrate an activity called Hot Seat. Ask teachers to imagine that they are pupils of class 6.

 Divide the class in groups of 4. Say that each participant will be in Hot Seat for three minutes. All members in a group will ask questions to a person in ‘Hot Seat’. Questions should be personal but if a person doesn’t want to answer a question, s/he may say “Pass”.

 Elicit possible topics and questions.

Possible answers:

Topics: family, hobby, favourite music, favourite food etc.

Questions: How many brothers/sisters/children do you have? What’s your hobby/favourite music? Etc)

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 Say that they must listen to each other attentively and remember the information because at the end they will write about each other. Say that in the end they will choose the most interesting person.

 Say that you will be a time keeper and signal after each three minutes. (After each three min you can whistle or clap your hands).

 Demonstrate with one group. You can join the group and be in a Hot Seat for three minutes.

 Check participants understand what they are going to do. Ask the questions

1. What are we going to do?

2. Who will be in a Hot Seat?

3. How many minutes will you be in a Hot Seat?

4. What questions can we ask? (e.g. What’s your favourite …? Do you like …? Can you …? etc)

5. What to do if you don’t want to answer a question?

 Monitor the groups. Give help if necessary.