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Questions for you

1 Do you enjoy teaching writing? Why?

Why not?

2 What type of writing activities/ tasks do

you do with your students?

-Pre-writing Activities

¢ Using a drill

° Using a listening text

¢ Using a reading text

¢ Using a survey

¢ Using picture dictation

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While-writing Activities

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¢ Transformation

¢ Substitution tables

¢ Substitution boxes

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¢- Questions and answers

¢ Ordering

Post-writing Activities

¢ Correction

° Sharing and comparing

¢ Exhibition

Controlled writing task

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Guided writing task

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Free writing task

Examples of controlled writing

tasks

° Jdumbled sentences

¢ Copying with corrections

¢ Find and copy

¢ Dictation

¢ Sentence combining

¢ Transformation

¢ Gap-fill

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Examples of guided writing tasks

¢ Guided sentence building

¢ Picture description

¢ Picture stories

° Summary

¢ Half dialogues

¢ Story completion

¢ Substitution boxes

¢ Questions and answers

-Examples of free writing tasks

¢ Writing a deliberating passage

¢ Writing a speech

¢ Writing a story

¢ Writing a letter

¢ Exchange writings

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Some examples of writing tests

Write a passage about :

¢ Some advantages and disadvantages of

wearing uniform to school

¢ The benefits of the Internet (English

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Some problems of writing from

Students

¢ Unknown what and how to write

¢ No idea to write

¢ Mistakes in using vocabulary, grammar

structure, verb tense/form, syntax

¢ Miswriting genre and topic

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Some examples of vocabulary,

grammar mistakes

-' cho nên” SO should

- thứ hai, Second Monday

- Ordinary Verb | Auxiliary in Add “not

negative directly

- Ordinary Verb Auxillary in lnversion

interrogative

-SpecialVerb Add not Auxiliary used

directly In

Some examples of vocabulary,

grammar mistakes

¢ We went to (see/saw) them yesterday

¢ We went and (see/saw) them yesterday

¢ He can (goes/ go/ to go) there today

¢ He could (went/ go/ to go) there yesterday

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Solufion(1)

What students need to do in order to

write

¢ Know the aim - why they are writing

¢ Know the audience - who they are

writing to

¢ Know the genre - what type of text they

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Solufion(2)

Have enough time for:

- thinking about the topic

- brainstorming ideas

- planning ahead carefully

- drafting as many times as they can

Have constant feedback from teacher as

well as their partners during the writin

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Solution(3)

¢ Give more exercises about verbs/tense,

syntax, parts of speech

¢ Teachers need to train students from

mistakes

¢ Give out sample mistakes for students to

avoid

¢ Consolidate the language ability

¢ Lead carefully to write correctly for each

genre (a passage, a speech, a letter )

- Encourage and make students interested

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