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Building Basic Technical Writing Skills

In: All Ages & Levels| Business| High School| Recipe

3 Oct 2009 Download PDF
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The Society for Technical Communication's award-winning 

Technical Literacy Project adapts many

real-world science instructions and descriptions for use in

high-school science classes.  These cases gradually build

student writing skills by revising, correcting, or expanding

scaffolded, sequenced text samples adapted from practical

materials outside the classroom.  

Such structured technical-writing practice is especially 

helpful for English language learners because:

 

     

     

  • It focuses everyone's attention on the TEXT SIGNALS

     

    (but, because, on the other hand) that ELL students often

    ignore or underuse



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Faces – Who is it?

In: All Ages & Levels| Recipe

24 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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This is a nice game to play to practice describing people (an important language skill). Simply put up this photo. or this one. Print it out if you want students to work in pairs / groups. Students take turns describing the faces and others guess who it is . One guess / person so they have to be sure! Good for…

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Describing People from Memory Information Gap

In: Beginner| Elementary| False Beginner| High School| Middle School| Recipe

27 Aug 2009 Download PDF
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Here's a way to practice vocabulary and sentences related to describing facial and body features, but it can be modified to include clothing and colour vocabulary, too.

First, practice the vocabulary and language: Stand at the front with a whiteboard and marker, and secretly draw a figure on the whiteboard to prompt the target language (e.g. "He is tall," "She is wearing a red blouse," "He has blue glasses," "He has…

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Mystery Object

In: Elementary| High School| Kindergarten| Middle School| Recipe

21 Jul 2009 Download PDF
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Bring an item that is so unusual that the learners are not likely to recognize what it is. Spend some time eliciting basic descriptions of the item and guesses about what it is and how it's used. If possible, pass the item around.

This is an activity in observation and inference, so don't answer questions. Just write down descriptions and guesses until someone figures it out or you reveal the…

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