Activities: Provide sentences with linking words such as: because, so, but, although, in spite of, otherwise, except that, apart from. Get them to underline the linking words. Discuss the function of linking words
Provide more activities. – Join the ideas in the two columns using linking words. – Fill in the blanks. Develop paragraphs: organizing ideas at inter-paragraph level (05/02 hrs)
Generate ideas using different techniques: brain storming, group/class discussions, reading, illustrations
Guidelines on organization: beginning, developmental Pattern-content (two or three paragraphs), ending, register, key words
Writing drafts, conference with the teacher, revising
Informative writing (10/05 hrs)
Text types: prospectuses, description of places/people
Focus: conveying information clearly. Consider what the reader wants to know and include relevant details only.
Present materials clearly, appropriate layout, illustrations and organization
Practical writing (10/05 hrs)
Text types: CV writing, job applications and covering letters
Focus on particulars found in an application form, CV format is different from application form
Letter writing- business letters (10/05 hrs)
Text Types: letters of complaints, letters of orders, banking correspondence
Focus: use formal and impersonal language
Imaginative writing (10/05 hrs)
Text types: poetry, short stories, play lets
Short stories – Creative use of language. Provide questions/pictures to stimulate writing. – Provide the beginning; An old man sat on a bench in the park watching children playing… – Provide the ending: …I told you it was a joke – Supply captions or titles as starting points. These can be taken from newspapers. e.g. Boy saved from drowning. – Imaginary situations: If I were a parent…
Poetry
Playlets – Text types: write dialogues appropriate to specific situations on different themes and act them out (group tasks) – Write and act out scripts for well-known tales, e.g. folk stories
Persuasive and argumentative writing(10/05 hrs)
Writing skills: giving reasons: e.g. why do people gamble/become vegetarians/keep pets/enjoy watching violet films? (Ref: Language in Use: Upper-Intermediate. Classroom Book.Page40, 50)
Text types – Brochures, leaflets, advertisements- on presenting a case influencing the reader. E.g. Imagine a local radio station has asked you to write a one-minute commercial advertising a new product.
