English Writing Practice. Brainstormings, Games, Activities, Warmers and Fillers to learn and practice English Writing
English Writing Practice
English Writing Practice
English Writing Practice with warmers and fillers designed to be short, designed to last no more than 10 minutes.
Here are 3 English Writing Practice Activities
Internet chat
Give each student a copy of the Internet chat handout (from the appendix). Tell the students to write their name in the ‘From (Username)’ spot. Then assign each student someone in the class to write to (they will be able to choose for the second round, but this ensures everyone gets an ‘email’ in the first round). Tell them to write a message. You aren’t going to be reading the messages so they can write pretty much anything they want (but keep it appropriate for class).
When the students are done they raise the paper above their head. The teacher takes the paper and passes it to the person the email is for. The receiver must stop writing whatever message they are working on and reply to the ‘email’ they have just received. Once you have picked it up they can continue their own message.
If the students don’t have a current ‘email’ they are working on, they can ask for a new piece of paper to which they can write an email to anyone they want. Continue for a while until students have had a chance to write a whole conversation to each other.
This entails quite a bit of movement on the teacher’s part, and the teacher needs to know the names of all the students in order for it to work.
Word stories
In groups, students note ten words they have learnt recently. Allow them to look back at the previous units. Write all the words on the board. In groups, students then make a story using at
least five of the words on the board. Set a five-minute time limit. Students tell the class their story. Hold a class vote to decide which story is best.
Writing storm
The teacher tells the students they have 5 minutes to write about something, and sets a subject that will encourage personal rather than general responses e.g. ‘the best thing to happen to me today’. The teacher tells the students they are looking for ideas and is not going to correct language. Make this a group activity by having students work together to make a story.
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