Mission 2 Writing skills III

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Road Map

• BBC One Minute World News
• Writing - theory
• Writing - do

Questions

1. What are the topics that are being discussed? Write them down.

2. Think for a minute and formulate an opinion on one of the topics 

3. In twos, discuss your opinion and try to react to your neighbour's ideas!

www.bbc.com

Writing skills

Peer feedback

Peer feedback

Good feedback should be: 

• constructive
• specific
• kind
• justified
• relevant.

Peer feedback

Look at:

• have all the formal requirements been met?
• structure (intro-body-conclusion)
• how are the various parts linked?
• grammar

Writing skills

• 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 grammar mistakes

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

Look ahead

Friday: 

Mission 3