Sessions 1 amp 2 4152017 Good morning Welcome to High Intermediate Writing at BIR Once you find a seat visit the following link to warm up and test your grammar and vocabulary skills httpswwwlearn4goodcomlanguagesenglishlevelhtm ID: 757860
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High Intermediate Writing ELPG032
Sessions 1 & 2 4/15/2017Slide2
Good morning! Welcome to High Intermediate Writing at BIR!
Once you find a seat, visit the following link to warm up and test your grammar and vocabulary skills!
https://www.learn4good.com/languages/english_level.htm
How’d you do? What’s your level?Slide3
Warm up
Two truths and a lie.
Come to the front of the room. Tell us your name, and then three things about yourself. Two of the things should be TRUE and one should be a LIE. The rest of the class will guess which one is a lie. Slide4
Syllabus, class rules and logistics
We have a class blog, which contains all the helpful links and information you’ll need for the class! You can find it here:
http://prof578.wordpress.com/
Scroll down to “ESL” and click the link ”High Intermediate Writing”Slide5
BREAK
Let’s take a 10 minute break. Please return at 10:10.Slide6
CEFR: what is it? Why is it important?
Common European Framework Reference
You can determine your level of proficiency in English using this framework. By knowing your level, you can better identify which aspects of English grammar and speech and to work on.
http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/cefr/
Now, find out your level! Which areas should you be working on?
http://
www.examenglish.com/CEFR/cefr_grammar.htmSlide7
What’s your level? How’s your grammar?
Go to the following link to test your level of English grammar. The better you do, the harder the questions get.
http://www.examenglish.com/leveltest/grammar_level_test.htmSlide8
Work smarter not harder: helpful tools
The internet contains lots of helpful tools to help you write better! One of those is
Grammarly
. Follow the link below to install it for free!
https://www.grammarly.com/Slide9
Writing Challenge 1
Choose from the following topics:
Cats or Dogs
I Will Never Eat That Again
People Who Should be Punished (And Why
)
Write 1 paragraph (3-5 sentences)
on your chosen topic. Use
Grammarly
to help reduce errors. Slide10
Break
Let’s take a 10 minute break. Please return at 12.Slide11
Readability
Once you’ve finished Writing Challenge 1, test the readability of your writing.
Paste a section of your writing into the box on the site and receive your readability score!
https://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp
What is the benefit of keeping sentences and words short?Slide12
Writing Challenge 2
Describe your bedroom. All sentences should be in
simple tense
. All sentences should be between
12-20 words in length
.
Do you write like a girl or like a boy? Find out!
http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php