TEACHING WRITTEN SKLLS COMMUNICATIVELY | Page 60

Task 7 3 min and the teacher can check how well they have mastered it. While-writing activities Students are presented This is a guided with ten pictures which writing activity. The show the process of teacher realizes that it making the recipe. is difficult for students They are also given the at this level to write verbs needed to devising the whole describe each picture, sentences themselves in jumbled order. After and he provides them they match the verbs with cues in order to with the pictures they make the task easier. are asked to write one The students can then instruction for each concentrate on how to picture. make sentences using the verbs given. Task 8 8 min Students compare their writing to the model text and try to organize what they have written into a coherent text using conjunction and to combine sentences. Students realize that writing is a process which needs a number of steps to complete. The generation of ideas is followed by discourse organization. By comparing their draft to the model text they become aware that a text is not a number of unrelated sentences. By combining sentences they give the text a texture and make it readerfriendly. Task 9 5 min Students read their draft trying to see it from a reader’s point of view in order to spot potential areas of ambiguity. Then they give it for the teacher to read and make comments. If it is needed they write the text again. Pictures showing process making recipe. the of the The model text in task 1 and the students’ draft. Students learn to read a text taking the point of view of the reader and this helps them write more clearly. The writing process continues with the teacher playing the role of an interested reader who provides comments in order for 60