Many of our teenage students now have mobile phones and enjoy sending text messages to each other. This activity introduces them to some English text messages that they could start to use with their friends.

This is a common tool to optimise learning opportunities from mistakes learners make in written homework and to encourage the editing stages of process writing.

This activity can be used with intermediate and upper-intermediate students and practises fluency as well as story-writing skills. It offers free practise of narrative tenses and sequential linking words,

In this activity students find out about another country and put together an article. It can be used with students at intermediate level and above and helps develop their fluency as well as their writing skills.

In this activity, learners attempt to re-write an inappropriately informal business letter in a more appropriate, formal style.

On these pages you will find ideas for classroom activities which involve writing.

This activity can be used with students of English and also trainee teachers. It is a way to make your opinion or discursive essay writing lessons more interesting and learner-centred.

I like using songs in the classroom as I know the students enjoy it a lot! This activity is really good and involves group work and the four main language skills. The students respond to music and write a story.

This activity would follow input work on writing in a particular style - for example, an informal letter inviting a friend to visit your home town for a holiday.