Practising writing

Most of you want to do some more writing practice, in order to work towards a better mark in your writing final. The genre for the final is an essay. We start looking at essays this week.

To practice, I suggest that you aim to write about 100 words in your blog every day or two. Keep it short, but try to express what you think AND give a good reason for your opinion. Choose an issue that you feel strongly about. A good place to start would be one of the issues in the listening software that you are using 'Issues in English' eg. the environment.

Once a week, I will put some topics here in the blog that you might like to write about as well.

For this week, I asked you to write about social behaviour in your country, after we discussed this in class. Write about 100 - 160 words of advice for someone coming to visit your home town and what they should know about how to behave. Remember, anyone in the world can read your blog, so try to make it interesting. I found some of the things we discussed in class yesterday really fascinating.

For those who have already written about social behaviour, perhaps you could write about Phillip Borell, our class visitor this week. What impressed you most about what he said?

Happy writing...