TP8 Writing_Andrea Bravo
Upper-intermediate level
Materials
Main Aims
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To introduce and provide practice of writing a letter to a newspaper.
Subsidiary Aims
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• To introduce some useful language to facilitate the production of the final task. • To encourage students to practice writing.
Procedure (37-47 minutes)
-T welcomes the class and introduces Ss to the topic of the lesson by asking some questions: -Do you read the newspaper very often? - Have you ever thought of sending a letter to a newspaper about an important topic? -T asks some students for their opinions.
-T shows Ss an image with 2 examples of letters to a newspaper and asks Ss to read them. -After Ss finish reading them T asks Ss to answer a multiple-choice question. -OCFB
-T shows some words and phrases from the text and asks Ss what they think they are used for. (To give emphasis to opinions) -T explains the use of the useful language provided and explains how to write a letter.
-T shows students her example of a letter as a model and asks them to select an important topic for them (T provides them with some ideas) and write one. -T asks Ss to think and take notes for 2 minutes to organize ideas for what they will include in their own work. -T provides Ss a Google document where they will have a page to write their own letter. Ss will have 15 minutes to write.
-Once students have finished writing, T asks them to go into breakout rooms and share their letters with their partners. -Ss will have 5 minutes to discuss, then T asks them about their partners’ letters.
- T gives FB on Ss language. - T asks if there are any questions left. - T ends the class.