2. Practical Writing
• Has both a clear purpose and a specific
audience.
• Examples: messages, forms, invitations, letters
and instructions.
• Benefits to students: practicing writing in new
language, learning about the conventions of
the new culture.
3. Forms
• It is useful to be able to fill out a form in another
language.
• Students have the opportunity to transfer information
from one format to another.
• Example 1: Forms and interviews
- Role-playing: interviewer takes the part of
interviewing an applicant for a job, filling out a form as
the job interview proceeds.
-interviewing someone they know: friend, colleague,
student from another class
-completing a form for the purpose of completing a
survey of people’s hobbies/family size.
4. • Example 2: Forms and readings
From a short reading passage, students
extract the necessary info. to fill out a form.
Example 3: Survey forms
When students have completed the
survey, they present it in a graph/table.
5. Letters
• Teaching letter writing deals with a variety of
forms and functions.
• There are letters to invite, explain, apologize,
congratulate, complain, inquire, order, apply,
acknowledge and thank.
• Each of them has their own vocabulary, sentence
structures, choice of words and tone to fit the
audience.
• There are various level of formality and
informality.
6. • Example 1: Letters and forms
-Show the class a sample advertisement for a
job.
- Show a sample of letter application and
explain the form and mechanics of writing a
letter of application for a job.
- Let students writes his letter application for
the job and fills out a registration form.
7. • Example 2: Informal Letters
-Establish a situation in the classroom
( invitation to a party/ ask each other questions)
-Students can also write a note to the teacher.
• Example 3: Pen Pals
-Teacher can arrange for the class to
correspond with a class in another country.
8. Lists
• People write lists to help them remember
what to do.
• Examples: shopping lists, lists of people to
invite to a party, lists of things to do
tomorrow.
• Example 1: Students brainstorming and
writing down what they would take with them
for four days of camping.
9. Daily Notes
• A record of the daily events/ ideas on the
events
• Fluency will increases.
• Example 1: Ask students to keep a special
notebook and to write in it in English for a few
minutes every day.
10. Instructions
• We write to tell our friends how to find our
house, how to water our plants, write a recipe
to a friend, bake a cake, change a flat tire and
etc.
• Example 1: Interview each other and take
notes on the steps in the procedure and then
write the instructions. Use words like first,
second, next, then and finally.
