Anglia Writing Workshop

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Anglia WritingWorkshop

• 15th November 2006

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The best performing students are the best
prepared students

• Ideas for writing
• Planning writing
• Checking writing
• Timed practice

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Ideas for writing

• Brainstorming writing down all the ideas
  before selecting the best to use.

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Ideas for writing

• Write the topic on the board and invite the
  students to call out any ideas at all they have
  on the topic.
• (you can put them in groups or pairs to think of
  ideas first)

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Ideas for writing
the best holiday I have ever had
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Ideas for writing
Where we are going on holiday next year
when?
where?
the best holiday I have ever had
with who?
what was it like?
what happened?
Why it was the best
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Ideas for writing
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Ideas for writing
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Planning writing

• Ensure students
• Read the title again and underline the most
  important words.
• Select the best ideas from the brainstorm
• Order these ideas into paragraphs and sentences

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Planning writing

• Students are often reluctant to plan they see
  it as a waste of writing time.
• Stress the importance of careful planning to task
  fulfilment.
• Answers that fulfil the task are much more likely
  to get higher grades than ones which do not.

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Planning writing
Not used where we are going on holiday next year
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Planning writing
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• Pg.91
• Pg. 66 67

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Essay structure
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From plan to writing

• Last year I went on holiday to England. I went
  with my mum, dad and sister. It was the best
  holiday I have ever had.
• England is a lovely place. The sun always
  shines, the people are friendly and the food is
  wonderful. We went to Chichester a small city in
  the South of England. It is near the beach. We
  went to the beach every day and swam in the warm
  clear blue sea.
• I met a friend called John and we played
  football on the beach. I went to his birthday
  party at his house and had a great time. It was
  the best holiday I have ever had because I met my
  friend John.

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Checking writing

• Give students practice in checking common
  mistakes in writing.

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Checking writing

• Have the students check each others work for
  mistakes

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Checking writing

• As you mark their work make a list of the common
  mistakes you find.
• Write an answer to the question including these
  common mistakes.
• Give the class the answer and ask them to correct
  it

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Checking writing

• Get students to make a list of the mistakes they
  make in their writing.
• After they have written something get them to
  check it using the list, so they know what to
  look for.

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Timed practice

• Give students timed practice so the know how long
  they have to brainstorm, plan, write and check
  their work

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Anglia writing tasks

• Writing tasks are included at
• Elementary level
• Pre-intermediate level
• Intermediate level
• Advanced level
• Proficiency level

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Elementary Level
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Pre-intermediate Level
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Intermediate Level
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Advanced Level
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Proficiency Level
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Task

• Now look at the marking criteria at elementary
  level and see if you can give grades to the
  sample answers.

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Task

• Now look at the marking criteria at
  pre-intermediate level and see if you can give
  grades to the sample answers.

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Task

• Now look at the marking criteria at intermediate
  level and see if you can give grades to the
  sample answers.

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Task

• Now look at the marking criteria at advanced
  level and see if you can give grades to the
  sample answers.

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Task

• Now look at the marking criteria at proficiency
  level and see if you can give grades to the
  sample answers.

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Summary writing

• Summary writing is not a pure writing task
• It is part of the reading comprehension question
  because the emphasis is on reading not writing

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Summary writing

• Summary writing tests a candidates ability to
• Understand the original text, its structure and
  direction, main and minor points, its argument
  etc.
• Understand the specific task
• Organise the relevant information
• Have tight control over their language

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Summary writing

• The candidates opinion is not asked for
• Formal style is required
• Words are limited, careful organisation is needed
• Candidates should use the blank space on their
  paper to write drafts before writing their final
  draft for submission
• They are unlikely to do well from one draft