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Writing Advanced writing skills – Activities

 Teaching writing - Here we’ll cover a range of activities and approaches that can be used with more advanced students, to help them
Introduction continue developing their writing skills.

 Teaching writing to
beginners - Foundations
Reinforcing sentence structures

Teaching writing to No matter how advanced your students get, sentence structures will continue to be a challenge. English sentences
 can be difficult, and without an intuitive understanding of how they are put together, your students may struggle.
beginners - Activities
This is especially true as the sentence structures they learn get longer and more complex. For these reasons, no
 Advanced writing skills - matter how advanced your students get, you should continue to emphasize and teach this skill.
Macro vs micro skills
Once they are at an advanced level, your students should be more involved in their own learning. When examining
Advanced writing skills - and explaining sentence structures, ask your students ‘why’ continually, such as why a certain word is in a certain
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Getting over the hump position, or why it can’t go in a different position. The idea behind this is to make your students think about what
they are doing, and why it’s right or wrong. This can eventually help them to self-check and correct some of their
 Advanced writing skills - own mistakes.
Activities
Writing structures

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Writing structures refer to the overarching rules that govern how a piece of writing is organized. Once they have a
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good understanding of sentences, help them to create longer pieces of writing by teaching them how to write
Activities continued
introductory paragraphs, the main body of a text, and conclusions. These types of structures are vital in academic
Teaching writing - writing, and without an understanding of them, your students’ writing will remain disorganized and ineffective.
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Summary
To give your students practice with these kinds of writing, you can give them a number of tasks such as:

 Teaching writing - Quiz

Assign your students an essay on a subject they enjoy.

Ask your students to write a letter to a friend they haven’t talked with in a long time.

Get them to write a 1-page story.

Unlike the basic stories they will have written before, with advanced classes you can push them to work more on
the structure of their writing and ensure it flows well.

Formal and informal language

Teaching your students the difference between formal and informal writing will give them an edge when they
come to professional or academic situations. Writing emails to friends and writing business emails require entirely
different language rules, and without an understanding of this students will struggle in their professional careers
and may even unknowingly cause offense.

To avoid this, ensure that your students understand what types of contexts require formal language, as well as the
corresponding rules, such as:

Formal language should avoid the use of contractions.

In formal writing, do not use slang or idioms.

Formal language contains a number of words and phrases that aren’t often used in informal speech
such as Sir/Madam, therefore, due to, thus, kind regards etc.

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Because students at this level are more advanced, helping them to discover these rules on their own can be better
for their learning and understanding than simply telling them. For example, you could give them two printed
emails, one formal and one informal that refer to the same subject, and let them discover the language differences
for themselves.

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