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4. Discussion: After reaching a consensus on the topic of the stories, the time to formulate the
main idea came. Teacher and students discuss the basic elements of a narrative story, and make a
summary chart. As a class, the students came up with the characters, setting, problem and solution.
II While-writing stage: The students start writing a paragraph working with each other within
their groups.
III Post-writing stage:
1. Editing: They re-read their story, making sure sentences make sense and ran through the
self-editing.
As is seen from the example of the activities of the lesson, we define post-writing as the step
in the writing process where the written text is shared with other audiences, such as a peer-editor or
the instructor or even with the general public.
2. Publishing: Each paragraph of each group must be published in the class booklet for further
assessment and evaluation.
Activity #4: Writing a composition on the theme ―Life in the desert‖ or ―Life in the tropical
forest‖ [1, 38-67 p.p.]
The aim: to write a composition
Objectives: to develop students‘ writing skills, to teach to generate ideas, to teach to write a
description to the picture, to teach to write paragraphs and to teach to combine the parts of a
composition.
Visual aids and materials: English textbook, pictures, magnet board, a poster with a
highlighted phrase, bingo cards.
Procedure
I Pre-writing stage:
1. Initial survey: Teacher sets a task to students to gather some information. This activity is
played like a game and the students are arranged in pairs. This can be used with FSW games. They
use bingo cards to walk around the classroom and to get some information from students using the
questionnaire:
- Do you know anything about life in the desert?
- Is there water?
- What kind of animals live there?
- Do you know anything about life in the tropical forest?
- What animals live there?
- Is there any desert in Kazakhstan?
- Is there any forest in Kazakhstan?
For which students try to answer.
2. Sentence Starter: The teacher sets the Sentence Starter which runs: ―Life in the desert flows
in its turn‖ and ―Life in the tropical forest is exotic‖. The students generate the ideas by discussing.
e.g. Oasis; desert plants and animals are steady for hot climate, etc. and Tropical fruits and animals;
lots of greenery, etc.
3. Extending ideas into note form: These ideas are rewritten into notes. Then the students can
draw the imaginative pictures. For this activity the students can work in pairs.
4. Picture mind map: Then the pairs of students come to the magnet board to fix the
imaginative pictures of their own version around the highlighted phrase ―Life in the desert‖ and
―Life in the tropical forest‖. So, this activity can build a foundation of a composition.
5. The first drafting: The pairs of students are combined into a group. Students prepare their
first drafts working together. But for each of the students their tasks are prepared beforehand for not
to repeat each others‘ words. e.g. Write about plants; write about animals; write about climate; write
about vital activities. Active vocabulary may be helpful for students.
6. Editing: Students exchange their first draft for improved peer feedback.
II While-writing stage: The students in groups start writing compositions. For this the students
have prepared first drafts, and their task is to combine their drafts to get a whole composition. Here
the art is in combining each part of the composition. In order to get a smooth transition between
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each part the students should use word connectors, as: however, nevertheless, on the one hand …
and on the other, etc.
III Post-writing stage:
1. The students read their compositions in front of the class while a peer correction is held.
2. The most creative composition can be published in the school‘s yearbook or class portfolio
at least.
So, these effective activities are thoroughly described. They are writing a drama, building up a
story, short story writing, and composition writing. In these activities students enable the
creativeness. Any of these activities is organized in smooth transition which could enable writing
process work better. The approaches to writing are from Process to Product.
Writing tasks are varied and made more creative and a conclusion can be made that students
love writing because of interesting tasks. We both benefit: students because learning to write is
enjoyable for them, teachers benefit because they feel the need to improvise, to make writing more
attractive to students and think of and look for more creative tasks. In conclusion, if teachers are
eager to be more creative and innovative, they can find various activities to improve writing skills,
despite of poor textbooks or manuals. The teacher always seeks for new information and introduces
the novelty into his/her methodology, as he/she is an investigator.
Hence, they should take into consideration the following facts:
1) to create tasks in accordance with students‘ level of English and interest;
2) to teach writing starting from skill building exercises to process based;
3) to get started form pre-writing techniques to proof reading;
4) to let students do peer checking;
5) to combine reading and writing tasks.
After having elaborated on the lessons in the ESL classroom, and suggested some ways for
teachers to help students self-sponsor their writing, be creative and competent, we would like to say
that the writing activities should be structured in ways that help students learn to produce cohesive
and coherent discourse on their way to become self-sponsors of their own writings. The primary
focus of writing practice "should not be the word, the phrase, or the sentence, but the larger
elements and processes that must be integrated and synthesized for effective written
communication."
Thus, summing up the results of observation, we have come to a conclusion that one of the
most important requirements for designing effective and creative writing tasks is to think of
coherent, connected activity sets, which include pre-writing, during-writing and post-writing
activities. Connected activity sets help students complete the writing task successfully and foster the
process of writing.
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