Writing Skills 5

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

WELCOME

Road map

• BBC One Minute World News 
• Writing Skills: peer feedback formal letter 

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BBC One minute world news

• Watch the clip
• What are the two/three topics that are being discussed? 
• What is your idea/opinion about ..... 

Informal letter  - FB

• Use of AE and BE

               realise/realize

                neighbour/neighbour

• Use of signal words 
• Closing paragraph

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Peer feedback

Good feedback should be

• constructive
• specific
• kind
• justified 
• relevant.

Peer feedback

• discuss/judge the work, not the person writing it!
• mark mistakes or things that you think can be improved
• Always indicate WHY and perhaps even HOW! 

Frequent Mistakes

• Mistakes of form
• Word order
• Grammatical tense
• Wrong word! 
• No concord between subject and verb 

Peer feedback

Look at:

• have all the formal     requirements been met?
• structure (intro-body-conclusion)
• content
• grammar

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Homework

18 March 2022:

In class you will start on the 2nd formal letter. This should be finished on 22 March 2022.