EFL Writing in Korea:
Motivation and Word/Sentence
Level Exercises
Presented by:
Douglas Baumwoll
Jeollanamdo Educational Training Institute
20 years teaching
45-minute
workshop
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Preliminaries:
Where Are You at? (3 minutes)
• Where do you teach? Class size? Grade?
• Are classes divided by level? Gender?
• Do you have a native teacher?
• Do you teach any writing?
• What writing tasks do you ask of your Ss?
• Do your students do writing homework?
• Do your students keep a writing notebook?
Douglas Baumwoll, JETI
University of Virginia, Philosophy
Teaching Experience in Korea
Teacher Trainer, Jeollanamdo Province
What Middle- and High-School Public
School Teachers Teach (in order):
• Reading
• Vocabulary
• Grammar
• Listening
• Speaking
• Pronunciation
• Writing – 0%
수능
(CSAT, KSAT)
Discuss with your students:
• Why learn English?
• Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations
Lingua Franca:
a language used widely to communicate among speakers of another language
Cosmopolitanism:
free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices,
or attachments; at home all over the world.
International Problem Solving
English Speakers in the World
- English is a main language in more
than 55 countries
- When traveling, you can speak English in
almost every country on Earth
- In China, a Korean will speak English with a
Chinese person, and not Chinese or Korean
On Wikipedia:
- 5,000,000 articles written in English
- 300,000 articles written in Korean
Why write?
11. Become more thoughtful readers
The Levels of Writing
Word-level Writing
Free Rice.com
Brainstorm – Cluster Diagram
What’sthe Claim Category?
1. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________
Pizza Hot Dogs Hamburgers ____________
2. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________
Soccer Basketball Tennis ____________
3. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________
Go to the park Sleep Read a book ____________
4. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________
Pray Confess Learn about God ____________
5. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________
Honesty Responsibility Respect ____________
6. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________
Ferrari Corvette Porsche ____________
7. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________
Teacher Engineer Architect ____________
8. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________
Moons Planets Star ____________
9. The Main Idea: Teachers do many things at school.
_____________________ ____________________ ____________________
10. The Main Idea: Having an education is important for many reasons.
_____________________ ____________________ ____________________
11. The Main Idea: You can do different activities on a computer.
_____________________ ____________________ ____________________
Hello, Goodbye Game
• Hello _________ , goodbye ________ .
• Hello homework, goodbye Star Craft.
• Hello diet, goodbye ice cream.
• Hello summer vacation, goodbye school.
vs.
Vocabulary
Is filling in the blank from a word list or word
bank using active vocabulary?
Active Vocabulary Activity
Student Output = Word Production
Instructional language (use gestures):
1) I will show you a photo.
2) You will look at it.
3) In your notebooks, you will write any words that
you think of.
4) You have one minute.
5) Have fun!
CCQ: What will you look at? What will you write? How
much time do you have?
Ready…
trees
walk
Words I Think of in One Minute
…water, stream, swim, waterfall, enjoy, red,
green, clothes, T-shirt, plants, trees, forest,
leaves, hike, walk, weekend, fit, hiking,
friends, talk, relax, stress, people, warm,
clean, sunny, nature, beautiful, peaceful,
exercise, healthy, animals, global warming,
Amazon, happy, healthy…
What have we achieved?
• Active language production
• Student-generated vocabulary
– Ss feel involved, empowered
• Do follow-up speaking or writing activities.
Write sentences or a story using 10 of the words.
Write opposites, synonyms
Write short, S+V+O sentences
Label nouns, verbs, adjectives
Use Topics Relevant to Your Students
Sentence-Level Writing
Sentence Combining Exercise:
Skills = Listening + Writing
Instructional language (use gestures):
1) I will read 3 sentences.
2) You will listen.
3) You will write them on your paper.
4) Last, you will combine them into one new
sentence.
5) You have 2 minutes.
CCQ: How many sentences will I read? Where
will you write them? How much time do you
have?
• Kim Yu-na is Korean.
• She is a figure skater.
• She is very talented.
Kim Yu-na, the Korean figure
skater, is very talented.
Kim Yu-na is a very talented
Korean figure skater.
The very talented figure skater
Kim Yu-na is Korean.
Parts of Speech, word order &
Writing
is the What doing? couple
What is the couple doing?
love I family my.
Cousin Sue, Sister Diana Aunt Muriel (95)
love I family my.
I love my family.
Pronoun + verb + adjective + noun
Subject + verb + object
S + V + O
So, can you and your partner
write the 8 parts of speech?
Sentence Building & Word Order
(by shape and color)
Sentence Building Sites
• Parts of speech – online games
• Octopus Game - arcademics.com
• Asteroids Game - abcya.com
• Google Sites - easygrammar4kids
More Sentence Building Sites
• Balloon Game - primarygames.com
• worksheetgenius.com - Sentence
building with teacher input!
pro-
noun
noun
adjective
adverbC
article
Punctu-
ation
verb
conjunctionPreposi-
tion
1.
2.
3.
Verbs: watch, hear, sing, eat,
sell, buy, give, take, bring,
meet, read, carry, find, see,
write, clean, have, play, pull
Sentence Build
• The man walked down the road.
• The old man walked down the narrow road.
• The poor old man walked spritely down the
narrow country road.
• The poor old man walked spritely down the
narrow country road in the evening.
Paragraph Writing
Teach a “tolerance for ambiguity”
free
Paragraph Writing
Elicited Words for Free Paragraph
• Elicit from your students:
– 2 nouns
– 2 adjectives
– 2 verbs
– 2 adverbs
– 2 conjunctions
– (add 2 interjections)
• Ss write a 10-15 sentence paragraph using all
words.
– Ss underline each word used in red
Circle Writing
• Ss work in groups of 3 or 4
• Each student writes a sentence, trying to make a
sentence that is a good beginning to a story
• Ss pass their paper to the right
• Ss now add a 2nd sentence to the paper in front of
them. They may change the tone/genre of the story.
Ss pass the paper to the right.
• Ss right the 3rd sentence on the paper in front of them.
• Etc., until the number of total sentences is reached (6
or 8 is a good number)
– The S writing the final sentence (6th or 8th) must end the
story in that sentence
The tired man looked out over the
stormy ocean and saw a large
sailboat in the distance. He
blinked his eyes twice but couldn’t
know what was happening. At that
moment, a thin fisherman
screamed at him with shaking
hands, “Help them!” The boat had
hit a rock under the water, and
there were ten people trying to get
off. He had to find out how to help
them quickly and get safety. He
shouted to them, “Just jump!”
because the boat was sinking very
fast.
Use with most used English Words
(page 27 of PDF file)
Top 100 Verbs
Top Academic Words
More Academic Words
Writing Questions
• ITESLJ.org - Written Conversation Questions
Use Realia
but wait…now it’s your turn to write!

Word and Sentence Writing and Word Order

  • 1.
    EFL Writing inKorea: Motivation and Word/Sentence Level Exercises Presented by: Douglas Baumwoll Jeollanamdo Educational Training Institute
  • 2.
  • 3.
    Download from Slideshare •Register (??) Very easy and quick • Search (Google Chrome): – www.slideshare.net/diegofresco • douglas.baumwoll@yahoo.com
  • 5.
    Preliminaries: Where Are Youat? (3 minutes) • Where do you teach? Class size? Grade? • Are classes divided by level? Gender? • Do you have a native teacher? • Do you teach any writing? • What writing tasks do you ask of your Ss? • Do your students do writing homework? • Do your students keep a writing notebook?
  • 6.
    Douglas Baumwoll, JETI Universityof Virginia, Philosophy
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    What Middle- andHigh-School Public School Teachers Teach (in order): • Reading • Vocabulary • Grammar • Listening • Speaking • Pronunciation • Writing – 0%
  • 13.
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    Discuss with yourstudents: • Why learn English? • Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations
  • 16.
    Lingua Franca: a languageused widely to communicate among speakers of another language
  • 17.
    Cosmopolitanism: free from local,provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.
  • 18.
  • 20.
    English Speakers inthe World - English is a main language in more than 55 countries - When traveling, you can speak English in almost every country on Earth - In China, a Korean will speak English with a Chinese person, and not Chinese or Korean
  • 21.
    On Wikipedia: - 5,000,000articles written in English - 300,000 articles written in Korean
  • 22.
    Why write? 11. Becomemore thoughtful readers
  • 23.
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    What’sthe Claim Category? 1.The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________ Pizza Hot Dogs Hamburgers ____________ 2. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________ Soccer Basketball Tennis ____________ 3. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________ Go to the park Sleep Read a book ____________ 4. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________ Pray Confess Learn about God ____________ 5. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________ Honesty Responsibility Respect ____________ 6. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________ Ferrari Corvette Porsche ____________ 7. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________ Teacher Engineer Architect ____________ 8. The Main Idea: __________________________________________________________ Moons Planets Star ____________ 9. The Main Idea: Teachers do many things at school. _____________________ ____________________ ____________________ 10. The Main Idea: Having an education is important for many reasons. _____________________ ____________________ ____________________ 11. The Main Idea: You can do different activities on a computer. _____________________ ____________________ ____________________
  • 28.
    Hello, Goodbye Game •Hello _________ , goodbye ________ . • Hello homework, goodbye Star Craft. • Hello diet, goodbye ice cream. • Hello summer vacation, goodbye school.
  • 29.
    vs. Vocabulary Is filling inthe blank from a word list or word bank using active vocabulary?
  • 30.
    Active Vocabulary Activity StudentOutput = Word Production Instructional language (use gestures): 1) I will show you a photo. 2) You will look at it. 3) In your notebooks, you will write any words that you think of. 4) You have one minute. 5) Have fun! CCQ: What will you look at? What will you write? How much time do you have? Ready…
  • 31.
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    Words I Thinkof in One Minute …water, stream, swim, waterfall, enjoy, red, green, clothes, T-shirt, plants, trees, forest, leaves, hike, walk, weekend, fit, hiking, friends, talk, relax, stress, people, warm, clean, sunny, nature, beautiful, peaceful, exercise, healthy, animals, global warming, Amazon, happy, healthy…
  • 33.
    What have weachieved? • Active language production • Student-generated vocabulary – Ss feel involved, empowered • Do follow-up speaking or writing activities. Write sentences or a story using 10 of the words. Write opposites, synonyms Write short, S+V+O sentences Label nouns, verbs, adjectives
  • 34.
    Use Topics Relevantto Your Students
  • 36.
  • 37.
    Sentence Combining Exercise: Skills= Listening + Writing Instructional language (use gestures): 1) I will read 3 sentences. 2) You will listen. 3) You will write them on your paper. 4) Last, you will combine them into one new sentence. 5) You have 2 minutes. CCQ: How many sentences will I read? Where will you write them? How much time do you have?
  • 38.
    • Kim Yu-nais Korean. • She is a figure skater. • She is very talented. Kim Yu-na, the Korean figure skater, is very talented. Kim Yu-na is a very talented Korean figure skater. The very talented figure skater Kim Yu-na is Korean.
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    Parts of Speech,word order & Writing
  • 40.
    is the Whatdoing? couple What is the couple doing?
  • 41.
    love I familymy. Cousin Sue, Sister Diana Aunt Muriel (95)
  • 42.
    love I familymy. I love my family. Pronoun + verb + adjective + noun Subject + verb + object
  • 43.
    S + V+ O
  • 45.
    So, can youand your partner write the 8 parts of speech?
  • 46.
    Sentence Building &Word Order (by shape and color)
  • 47.
    Sentence Building Sites •Parts of speech – online games • Octopus Game - arcademics.com • Asteroids Game - abcya.com • Google Sites - easygrammar4kids
  • 48.
    More Sentence BuildingSites • Balloon Game - primarygames.com • worksheetgenius.com - Sentence building with teacher input!
  • 49.
    pro- noun noun adjective adverbC article Punctu- ation verb conjunctionPreposi- tion 1. 2. 3. Verbs: watch, hear,sing, eat, sell, buy, give, take, bring, meet, read, carry, find, see, write, clean, have, play, pull
  • 50.
    Sentence Build • Theman walked down the road. • The old man walked down the narrow road. • The poor old man walked spritely down the narrow country road. • The poor old man walked spritely down the narrow country road in the evening.
  • 51.
  • 52.
    Teach a “tolerancefor ambiguity”
  • 53.
  • 55.
    Elicited Words forFree Paragraph • Elicit from your students: – 2 nouns – 2 adjectives – 2 verbs – 2 adverbs – 2 conjunctions – (add 2 interjections) • Ss write a 10-15 sentence paragraph using all words. – Ss underline each word used in red
  • 56.
    Circle Writing • Sswork in groups of 3 or 4 • Each student writes a sentence, trying to make a sentence that is a good beginning to a story • Ss pass their paper to the right • Ss now add a 2nd sentence to the paper in front of them. They may change the tone/genre of the story. Ss pass the paper to the right. • Ss right the 3rd sentence on the paper in front of them. • Etc., until the number of total sentences is reached (6 or 8 is a good number) – The S writing the final sentence (6th or 8th) must end the story in that sentence
  • 57.
    The tired manlooked out over the stormy ocean and saw a large sailboat in the distance. He blinked his eyes twice but couldn’t know what was happening. At that moment, a thin fisherman screamed at him with shaking hands, “Help them!” The boat had hit a rock under the water, and there were ten people trying to get off. He had to find out how to help them quickly and get safety. He shouted to them, “Just jump!” because the boat was sinking very fast.
  • 58.
    Use with mostused English Words (page 27 of PDF file) Top 100 Verbs Top Academic Words More Academic Words
  • 59.
    Writing Questions • ITESLJ.org- Written Conversation Questions
  • 60.
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    but wait…now it’syour turn to write!