Writing skills 3

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Welcome

Road map

• BBC One Minute World News 
• Writing Skills - Theory and practice 

www.bbc.com

BBC One minute world news

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

Writing skills 

• formal letter
• informal letter 

Writing skills 

• Use capitals when starting a sentence
• I also has a capital letter!!!
• No 'gonna' and 'wanna'
  
• No swearing: NOT EVER!
  
• No abbreviations
• No contractions

Frequent Mistakes

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

(Home)work 

Do the assignment, write the personal letter. Follow the instructions on your assignment sheet. 

Hand in the letter through SOM on or before Thursday 3 March 2022.