Writing course stage 1

Welcome back after the autumn break.

Remember that the presentations which could not be done before the break  (on the Uk and the Bahamas)will be done at the beginning of this Friday's class.Good luck!

Today we start on our writing course. One of the positive things about the textbook is the section on writing. We will spend the first five minutes of the lesson looking at these points VERY BRIEFLY.

Here you will find a lot of the material we will discuss during our Monday lessons over the next few weeks.

We are now moving into an intensive period of writing where all of the assignments will be graded. The planner for the writing course is HERE

Now we will start off by discussing writing in groups of three to four students. Here is the handout. Today it will also be available on paper. I want you to take about 15 minutes to do the handout and give some feedback.

Now we move on to a building- block of writing-
namely the 5 paragraph essay.

Here is the first one and here is the other hand-out.

Your task BY Friday is to write a five-paragraph essay based on the title Mike will give you today.  Send it to Mike's mailbox.

If you miss today's lesson it is your responsibility to find out your subject and have it done by Friday. Failure to do the tasks on the writing course without an adequate excuse will result in an "F"- warning!!!!
(You have been warned!)

A word about this Friday's lesson...
After the presentations the planner says "Text book suggestions".
You need to have something prepared when you come to Friday's class- a text from the text book -and how you are planning to work with it.