Product description

This book offers a wealth of ideas and activities to practise and develop writing skills. It introduces different approaches to teaching writing, managing writing lessons and giving feedback. It covers all language levels from A1 to C2 and explores a range of writing contexts and text types, helping learners to write effectively for exams, share information and ideas in academic situations and the workplace, and navigate everyday situations such as completing forms.

Key features

• Over 100 practical ideas and activities will help learners to practise and develop their writing skills.
• Activities incorporate commonly used digital tools, ensuring writing tasks are relevant to the world outside of the classroom.
• A chapter dedicated to teacher development supports excellence in the teaching of writing through collaborative activities and reflection. 

Contents

Thanks viii

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction I

1. Writing about yourself and other people 21

1.I Information improvement 24

1.2 Simple selfies 26

1.3 Write a lie 28

1.4 The follow up 29

1.5 Questioning the event 31

1.6 All sorts of results 33

1.7 Guess who 35

1.8 Make it more interesting 37

1.9 Coherent order 39

1.10 Who's tweeting? 41

1.11 Rich description 43

1.12 Experience evaluation 45

1.13 Research in common 47

1.14 Helpful signposts 48

2. Writing to people you know 51

2.1 Wrong prediction 54

2.2 Opening and closing dictation 56

2.3 Odd requests 57

2.4 Written whispers 59

2.5 Invitation generator 60

2.6 Email revision 62

2.7 Text and match 64

2.8 Looking for politeness 66

2.9 What's news? 68

2.10 Yes and no reply 70

2.11 Language problem 72

2.12 Best thanks 74

2.13 Cut the announcement 77

2.14 Prompted request 80

2.15 Varied advice 81

3. Writing to share ideas and opinions 85

3.1 Tweet scramble 89

3.2 Review sentences 91

3.3 Contrast research 93

3.4 Ongoing discussion 95

3.5 Reason-result dictogloss 98

3.6 Reviewing and planning 100

3.7 Essay kitset 103

3.8 Topic sentence secret ballot 105

3.9 Discursive retell 107

3.10 Sentence swap 109

3.11 Using devices 111

3.12 Unscrambling the genres 113

3.13 Toning it down 115

4. Writing to get something done 117

4.1 Expanding race 120

4.2 Complete form 122

4.3 Order change 125

4.4 Recipe clarity 127

4.5 Still processing 129

4.6 Thinking it through 131

4.7 Information transfer 133

4.8 Scripting the board 136

4.9 Complaint chunks 139

4.10 Gallery guidelines 141

4.11 Question guided instructions 143

4.12 Service request 145

4.13 Email evaluation 147

5. Writing expressively 150

5.1 Future selves 153

5.2 Imaginary weekend 155

5.3 The thing I love the most 156

5.4 Word story 157

5.5 Fill the bubble 159

5.6 That old sensation 160

5.7 After the cliff hanger 161

5.8 Don't mention the snake 163

5.9 This was when 165

5.10 Blended narrative 167

5.11 Differently ever after 168

5.12 Genre switch 169

5.13 The way I see it 172

5.14 What's it all about? 174

5.15 Regular thoughts 176

6. Writing for academic contexts 178

6.1 Compounding things 182

6.2 The right support 183

6.3 Comparison edit 185

6.4 Spot the reference 187

6.5 Graph kitset 189

6.6 More to less 192

6.7 Putting together the process 194

6.8 A good source 197

6.9 Notes on cause and effect 200

6.10 The right academic word 203

6.11 Noting the relevance 205

6.12 Fixing the draft 208

7. Writing for business 211

7.1 The right request 215

7.2 Accurate cover 217

7.3 CV workshop 219

7.4 Introduce yourself 221

7.5 Complete invitation 223

7.6 Something to complain about 225

7.7 Note share 227

7.8 What the tables tell us 231

7.9 Uncluttered slides 234

7.10 The right recommendation 238

7.11 PEST workshop 241

7.12 Natural chunks 243

8. Teacher development 245

8.1 Getting to know your students-speaking or writing? 247

8.2 Text comparison 249

8.3 Opinion wall 251

8.4 Materials comparison 253

8.5 Commonplace book 255

8.6 Common needs 257

8.7 Chunk collection 259

8.8 Standardising written assessment criteria or grade norming 261

Index 263