Writing Skills 4

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This lesson contains 16 slides, with text slides.

Items in this lesson

WELCOME

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Road map
  • BBC One Minute World News 
  • Writing Skills

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BBC One minute world news
  • Watch the clip
  • What are the two/three topics that are being discussed? 
  • What is your idea/opinion about ..... 

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Writing skills 
Your booklet:
  • formats and words
  • informal letter 
  • formal letter

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Formal letter 
  • formal style: no contractions, no abbreviations, use passive.
  • Write one paragraph per subtopic.
  • Skip a line between paragraphs.
  • Make sure you know what you want, ensure it is reasonable and state it plainly.
  • Never be rude. Be firm but polite.

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Formal letter
  • Dear Sir/Madam, or Dear Mr/Ms/Mrs .... 
  • Introduction: state why you are writing the letter.
  • Body: elaborate 
  • Conclusion: I hope that .../ I look forward to ...
  • Yours faithfully (when the name of the recipient is unknown)
  • Yours sincerely (when the name is known)

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Formal letter
  • Do assignment  5.4.B. assignment 1 
  • Write a formal letter as discussed on Learnbeat and in class. 
  • Work on the letter in week 10 (Thursday 10 March) 
  • Hand in in week 11 (Friday 18 March)

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Formal letter 
  • Formal letter assignment 1
  • Bring a printed version of your letter to class  on 10 March 
  • No letter =  no feedback = extra assignment from me :-)

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Any questions?

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Homework 
Write formal letter 1 and bring a printed version of it to class on 10 March 2022

No letter = no feedback = extra assignment form me ;-)

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Peer feedback
Good feedback should be
  • constructive
  • specific
  • kind
  • justified 
  • relevant.

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Peer feedback
Look at:
  • have all the formal     requirements been met?
  • structure (intro-body-conclusion)
  • grammar

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Peer feedback
  • discuss/judge the work, not the person writing it!
  • mark mistakes or things that you think can be improved
  • Always indicate WHY and perhaps even HOW! 

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Frequent Mistakes
  • Mistakes of form
  • Word order
  • Grammatical tense
  • Wrong word! 
  • No concord between subject and verb 

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