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From task preparation to a suggested correction code, our Teaching writing poster gives you lots of helpful ideas to use in the classroom when setting writing tasks for your learners.

Getting students to participate in writing activities in class can be an arduous task. Despite our best efforts as teachers to make the prospect of writing a fun and collaborative activity, it is often met with groans of reluctance.

If you think taking tests is difficult then you should try writing them! Writing a good test is indeed quite a challenge and one that takes patience, experience and a degree of trial and error.

Writing or developing an English language syllabus is a difficult task. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

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

Writing, like all other aspects of language, is communicative. Think about what we write in real life. We write e-mails, lists, notes, covering letters, reports, curriculums, assignments, essays perhaps if we study.

Watch a recording of David Petrie's webinar, where he looks at developing students' writing skills for success in exams.

This lesson consists of three activities to provoke discussion and provide ideas for collaborative story writing. Unusual photos from the LearnEnglish Teens photo caption section are the main focus of the lesson (http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/photo-captions).