Teaching Advanced Writing • Activities

Question 1

Activities - Teaching • Ways To Teach 

Answer 1

1- Reinforce sentence structure (Always use gap sentences).

2- Help your students crack their own work by asking them why they think they got an answer wrong, or even why they got it right.

Question 2

Activities - Writing Structure • Ways To Teach

Answer 2

When your students are at a more advanced level, start teaching them writing structure, like an introductory paragraph, the main body of a text, and conclusions.

Examples :
Ask your students to write essays on subject subjects they like, write letters to friends who live away, or ask them to write a one page story.

Question 3

Activities - Formal and Informal Language • Rules

Answer 3

1- Avoid the use of contractions.

2- Turn on you slang/idioms.

3- Focus on formal sayings/words: sir/madame, therefore, due to, thus, kind regards, etc.

Question 4

Activities - Formal and Informal Language • Ways to Teach

Answer 4

Give your students two emails, a formal and informal one, and ask them to point out the differences.

Question 5

Activities - Journaling • Ways to Teach

Answer 5

Ask students to keep a daily journal. It will help with their spelling, and mark their improvement. When students get more advanced, ask them to correct their own past work.

Question 6

Activities - Sentence Rewrite • Meaning

Answer 6

It’s very difficult but very important for test like the IELTS where students have to rewrite a sentence for maintaining its meaning.

Question 7

Activities - Sentence Rewrite • Examples

Answer 7

I started University one year ago/One year ago I was starting University.

Question 8

Activities - Sentence Rewrite • Ways To Teach

Answer 8

Start with simple sentence and make sure you still have basic knowledge of sentence structure.