Creative Writing: describing a day

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Creative Writing: Describing a Day

Lesson Plan

Level: B1 (Intermediate)

Duration: 45 minutes

Objective: Describing a day in your life

This class will prep you for your Formative Writing Test on Friday!

Preparation

Get out a piece of paper or your notebook and a pen

Choose a day from your Christmas holidays  that you would like to write about

OR

 Imagine a wonderful or terrible day

Process:

• Write down in keywords what you did that (imaginary) day
• Decide how you are going to start your description
• Decide how you are going to end the description

Next steps

• Describe in detail what you did that day
• Use a first person point of view (I)
• Use paragraphs to structure your text
  
• Use linking words and expressions to make sure the timeline is clear to the reader

Check!

Punctuation: capital letters, full stops in the right places

Grammar: word order, verb forms, adjectives/adverbs

Vocabulary: prepositions, avoid very/really

Flow: avoid unnecessary repetitions, variety in lenth of sentences, try to keep it interesting for your reader

Spelling

Sharing = Caring

Read your story to your classmate, who will give you feedback on:

• Creativity
• Grammar 
• Vocabulary
• Structure

After that, change roles.

How did you like the description of your classmate?

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How helpful was the feedback you received?

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What tip are you going to use in the formative test this Friday?

Want more practice?

Go to 

www.writeandimprove.com

and practise with writing stories and describing people.

The tool will give you feedback and it is very helpful!