Writing ideas for your students / Tell me about your friend!

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Time to be creative!

It is not easy to motivate your students to write something. If we want them to be productive and eager to improve their writing skills, we have to find some creative solutions. As an English teacher, I do my best to give them some nice ideas so that they can work on them.

When students are asked to write something, they usually ask for some ideas. If you just tell them to write, they will look at your face with unsure faces. Today, I would like to share you one of the ways that is might help you to motivate your students to write. You may either use it as writing activity in class or give it as a homework so that they can work on it more.


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Essay competition

"My dear students, we are planning to have an essay competition. The topic of essay competition is our friends. Could you please write an essay about your friends? There is no limitation in your writing. You can write about everything you want. English teachers in our school are going to choose the best ones and publish them on our website"

This is how I start the writing lesson with my students. Now , they know what they need to write about. The subject of the essay competition is quite understandable and everybody can write something about it, so no one will be an outside in class. In addition to writing, I also inform them about choosing the best essays so that they can pay more attention to their works.


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Teacher, what can we include?

When we talk about our friends or people in general, there are some basic things that can be the parts of our writings. Your students can write about their names, ages, nationalities or jobs. All students can do it easily, I guess. In addition to this, they can also describe what their friends look like and what they like doing in their free time. In other words, they can were about physical appearance and hobbies.

To make the thing easier for them. You can also include the following questions.

What does your friend like?
What does your friend look like?
What is your friend like?
What do they do in their free time.

Adding these questions on their papers can help them to write a well-planned essay, it is sometimes hard for students to organize their writing homework, so some questions should be added for them.


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Useful phrases

When you give a writing homework, it is important to support your students by suggesting them some useful phrases and words. As this writing homework is about physical appearance, characters and hobbies, we can give some of the following words to help them use in their writing homework.

Tall, short, slim, beautiful, handsome and etc. can be used to describe what they look like. Giving these words is not enough, so it is better to use them in an example so that they can copy and use in their own works.

In addition to physical appearance, we can also list some adjectives about characters so that your students can copy and use them. Here are some useful adjectives; generous, reliable, kind, quiet, shy and smart. I usually ask my students to tell me some adjective and write them on the board so that they can think and activate their prior knowledge.


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As I need to work for private school in all seasons of year, I have to be creative all the time. If you also have any writing tips, you are welcome to share them or even write a post of yours. It is possible to share your work under the tag of @steemiteducation.

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