Writing

Today
  • Focus on writing:
  • Pitfalls 
  • Creative writing
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This lesson contains 20 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

time-iconLesson duration is: 90 min

Items in this lesson

Today
  • Focus on writing:
  • Pitfalls 
  • Creative writing

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Goals
At the end of today's class:
  • I can avoid standard pitfalls
  • I can write a short story in English
  • I have actively worked on my English

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Newsround
  • Listen to the news
  • Write down the topics they talk about

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Slide 4 - Link

What was today's news about?

Slide 5 - Open question

Pitfalls
Do you know what it means?

Slide 6 - Open question

Pitfalls
In the next slide, there is a kahoot ready for you about pitfalls.
Please click on the link and use appropriate names.
Good luck

Slide 7 - Slide

Slide 8 - Link

Two, too and to
  • Two = twee
    I got two horses
  • To = naar, om (voorzetsel)
    We are going to school
    We ask you to stay  here
  • Too = ook of te(veel)
    He likes music too
    You are talking too much

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Than and Then
  • Then is used with time
  • Than is used with comparison

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Their, there, they're
  • Their = hun (bezittelijk voornaamwoord)
    Their car
  • There = daar, er 
    There are some nice cars
  • They're = they are = zij zijn
    They are always nice to me

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Your and you're 
  • Your = jouw (bezittelijk voornaamwoord)
    Is that your pen?
  • You're = you are = jij bent
    You are a student

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Time to work on your writing skills!
  • Write a short story about the most exciting project you had during your internship in 300 words.
  • Write what you like about it and explain why
  • Give two reasons why that specific project was so exciting and explain them using examples
  • Compare this project with the worst project you had
  • Use signal words

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Example
Currently , I am working on project x. This is by far my worst project I ever had. It also has me connected with one of the worst companies. In comparasion to  project x, project Y  was much nicer. What I like about it is that I could be more free and use my creativity. 

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Your turn

  • Let your neigbour(s) check your story for grammatical mistakes/coherency 
  • Your piece should have an intro, body and a close
  • think of an appropriate title 

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Handing it in
Upload your file to teams. You will find the assignment in teams. 

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Slide 18 - Link

It's a wrap!
Did we achieve our goals?

I can avoid standard pitfalls
I have finished a writing prompt
I have actively worked on my writing skills

Slide 19 - Slide

Questions?

Slide 20 - Open question