1. Playing classroom games involving writing:
Who-when and where-what was done-what happened as a result-what did it end with-what is the morale
2. Work in two groups. Each group studies one link, then gives its judgement about the source.
Learning more about grammar:
http://www.grammar.net/
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl
3. What do you do when you have to write an essay or a report? What problems can you experience while writing an essay?
- Watch and make notes: Academic Writing Basics
- How many of the steps mentioned do you usually follow? How many do you miss? Why?
- Working on essay writing at www.essaypunch.com (demo)
- Reading introductions in the classroom.
At Home
1. Write a short story (up to 10 sentences) using as the first sentence one from Ideas for writing stories: http://thestorystarter.com/
2. Now sign up at lang-8.com and publish your story to have it checked.
3. After you get feedback, correct the mistakes and publish your story and your impressions about lang-8 in your blog.
4. Play Games that teach and write which ones you liked/disliked and why:
Play News Headlines Game to learn basics about writing headlines.
Play Extreme Sentence Surgeon to check your spelling, punctuation and grammar skills.
(More games at http://interactivesites.weebly.com/writing.html)
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