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29 May 2014
Hold the front page - get students writing
I think that practicing reported speech is one of the most fun activities you can do with your students in order to get...
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14 May 2014
Rachael Roberts - Motivating students to write
Why is it that so often when we announce a writing activity a groan goes up from the class?
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30 Apr 2014
Plain Sailing: Motivating Young Learners to Write
“Today, we are going to do some writing.”
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29 May 2014
Hold the front page - get students writing

I think that practicing reported speech is one of the most fun activities you can do with your students in order to get them writing....

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14 May 2014
Rachael Roberts - Motivating students to write

Why is it that so often when we announce a writing activity a groan goes up from the class?
See more
30 Apr 2014
Plain Sailing: Motivating Young Learners to Write

“Today, we are going to do some writing.”
See more

  • Hold the front page - get students writing

    In particular I have a number of teens who are always difficult when it comes to homework, so I recently turned them into ‘fleet street hacks’ for some fun writing exercises.I decided to use an episode of the Agatha Christie crime series Hercule...

  • Rachael Roberts - Motivating students to write

    Speaking activities are rarely greeted this way, and yet both are forms of communication, aren’t they? Or are they? Perhaps one of the biggest problems with writing activities is that so often they aren’t about communication: they’re about answering...

  • Plain Sailing: Motivating Young Learners to Write

    There is an inevitable groan that follows this statement. Heads drop. Complaints are muttered. Pencils that were on the desk a few moments ago suddenly disappear or need sharpening. The lesson either hits a lull or gets off to a painfully slow start.