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

Latest Writing Activity

Text lingo
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.

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Other Writing Activities

• Text lingo

• Writing error correction

• Writing a story on the OHP

• Guided writing using the OHP

• Chat

• A business letter

• Writing consequences

• Poems for the future

• Writing through 'reverse reading'

• Postcards

• Role-play writing

• Creating a framework for writing

• A Perfect story

• Note writing

• A creative writing activity

• Eliciting vocabulary before writing narratives

• Improving paragraph writing

• Songs and storytelling

• Freeze the writing

• Helping students organise argument essays

Jo Budden, British Council, Spain

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