TEACHING WRITTEN SKLLS COMMUNICATIVELY | Page 71

Task 6 4 min Task 7 Task 8 10 min Task 9 7 min provides the stimulus for the writing task which will follow. Students are exposed to This activity a written text in the integrates reading to form of a brochure. note-taking which is a They have to read the common activity in brochure in order to real life. The note down information information students which they will need to gather from the incorporate to their brochure will be reply letter transferred in another text. Students are asked to The activity practices find the meaning of reading skills. some words from the Students are provided text. with vocabulary which they will need for their writing task. While-writing activities Students start the The activity is a writing process. They controlled one so that are asked to write a students can focus on first draft of the letter the language they following the five have to use. The stages mentioned teacher reads their above. For each stage drafts with a purpose they are given cues so not to correct that they know what to mistakes but to write. Then they give provide useful their drafts to the guidance while teacher who provides writing is in process. feedback. The activity helps students see the teacher as an interested reader and writing as a process. Students transfer their first draft on a piece of Task also paper giving it the continues layout of an informal the letter. Then they are following asked to leave it aside day and for a day. Next day takes they read it again another trying to take the 5 minutes reader’s point of view. When matters of A brochure advertising a mountain climbing expedition. The students assemble the parts of the letter to make a text. Then they are asked to leave their text for a day. This detaches them from their text and makes it easier for them to read it the following day taking the reader’s point of 71