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Some Problems That Learners Can Have With The Writing Paper
Some Problems That Learners Can Have With The Writing Paper
Develop your learners’ brainstorming skills. In class get learners to work in groups and to share
My learners don’t have enough ideas for writing tasks.
ideas for writing tasks.
My learners don’t refer to the content or topic in the question when they Give learners practice in class reading a test question and underlining the main topic word. Then
write their answers. get them to write a first sentence that includes this word.
My learners don’t include all of the points in the question when they are Give learners practice in class reading test questions and underlining all the points that have to
writing their answers. be included.
My learners don’t write letters or stories in their daily lives so don’t have Use letters and stories in reading comprehension tasks and grammar gap-fill tasks so that they
much experience of this type of writing. can see more examples of this type of text.
My learners produce writing that is not well organised. They move from one Get learners to plan what they are going to write so that all of their ideas are in their plan for
point to another and then back again. them to follow.
Do activities and games in class where learners have to think of words that mean the same or
My learners use very limited vocabulary in their writing.
words that are opposites of words given.
Do reading and listening activities and role
My learners use very formal English in their writing, I think it’s because
plays which have informal language to provide examples and to practise language used between
they are all professional people.
friends.
My learners find it difficult to sit and concentrate on writing for more than a Do writing activities for short periods of time in class and encourage learners to work in pairs
couple of minutes. and groups and perhaps add some competition.
My learners use a different script in their own language and are very slow in In class include activities where learners can practice letter formation and joined up script like
writing a whole piece of text in English. copying a model answer.
My learners give in work that has a lot of mistakes that I know they could
Set aside extra time in class for learners to proofread and edit their work.
correct themselves.
My learners don’t have much experience so don’t know anything about a lot Find out what your learners’ interests are and use topics they know about for writing tasks.
of topics they are asked to write about. Remind them to choose the task that interests them in the exam.
У моих учеников мало опыта, поэтому они ничего не знают о многих Узнайте, каковы интересы ваших учащихся, и используйте знакомые им темы для
темах, о которых их просят написать. написания заданий. Напомните им выбрать на экзамене задание, которое их интересует.