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 simulates ‘chatting’ – a popular (online) communication process which has features common to both speaking and writing.

This is a fun activity to create a group story. Each student needs a blank sheet of paper and a pen. If possible, sit in a circle shape to play.

Here are some suggestions to help get your students writing poems based around the theme of the future.