Writing Activities

Its the message I sent last week. Apparently, it was found by an English teacher. Hes corrected the spelling mistakes and sent it back.

Activity 1: You will form two teams. One person from each group will hear a word. S/he "writes" the word in the air and others guess what it is. The team with more correct answers wins the game.

 Activity 2: Work in groups of 5. Make a grid with 7 columns. Write category titles in columns: Name, Plant (Vegetable or fruit), Animal, Object, Adjective, Place (city or country), and Celebrity. I will say a letter and you will find one answer for each category in 30 seconds. The group with more correct answers gets a point.

Celebrity

Plant Vegetable or fruit)

apple

Animal

Object

Adjective

Place

Arnold Schwarzenegger

antelope

accordion

amazing

Argentina

Lindsay Lohan

lemon

Leopar

Lamp

lucky

Lleburgaz

Arnold Schwarzenegger was eating an apple when an antelope in Argentina was playing accordion on TV. It was amazing. Lindsay bought a house in Lleburgaz. One day, she was eating lemon in the kitchen and a leopar entered the kitchen. It broke the kitchens lamp. Lindsay was lucky because she did not get hurt.

Choose one word from each column to make 5 sentences.

dragon ugly

ran into

prince
The silly

skated
over

sea
circus the school

lucky A

spaceman

swam

handsome
robot stupid teacher flew skipped

through

a
fair

in

jungle

Activity 3: Work in groups of 5. Create a product that you think will sell. Name it. Decide on a slogan, and write an advertisement for your product.

Totashi
Choose the product ( What is it? ) Prepare a poster Choose a Motto Prepare a jingle ( You will sing it) Shoot a video film ( act in the classroom) Sell us

Activity 4:

Use the graphic organizer.

Agony aunt
Aim Practicing giving advices using the following expressions: Why dont you? You (really) ought to/should You could How about/What about + noun/-ing form? If I were you, Id The best thing you can do is to; I strongly advise you to You shouldnt It would be a good idea to

ALL ABOUT ME

ALL ABOUT MY PETS

Activity 6: Correct the facts/mistakes: Rewrite the sentences so they match the picture. Yesterday in the bazaar I saw an old man sitting in a chair. He was selling eggs. It was raining.

I went to Elekirt on Sunday. I visited smet Pasa Mosque. I was wearing a yellow T-shirt. It was rainy and cold.

Activity 7:

Substitution Writing

Activity 8: Technological Activities

Texting (SMS) Updating facebook status Writing blogs (keeping online diaries) Creating online scripts Chatting E-mails Subscriptions (Filling online forms)

Emotions

Love Wonderful, beautiful Caring, liking, thinking Innocence, smile, tear, guilt Fighting, violating, disgusting Terrible, worst Hatred

POEMS
Title of Poem Author's Name

______________________

= 1 noun ("top") = 2 adjectivesfor top noun

______________________, ______________________

__________________, __________________, __________________

= 3 gerunds for top noun

__________________, __________________, __________________ , __________________

= 4 synonyms: 2 for top noun + 2 for bottom noun

__________________, __________________, __________________

= 3 gerunds for bottom noun

______________________, ______________________ ______________________

= 2 adjectives for bottom noun = 1 noun ("bottom")

ACTIVITY 10 USING PICTURES INSTEAD OF WORDS

Activity: 11 Stories
Create a story according to the headline in a newspaper/magazine Create a story according to the given pictures Create a story according to the prompts Writing alternate ending Summarizing Continuing the story Changing/Rewriting the story

USE PICTURES
Write a story about why the horse is chasing the guy .

Write a story about that frustrated chef.

Write a story about the mouse and the mouse.

USE STORY SCRIPTS

Write a story according to the pictures.

MAKE UP YOUR OWN STORY It was a sunny day.

Garden School bus

Doctor Frog
Police Plane

Scaffolded Storying

"Every time I ask a question I want you to write a sentence:"

It was a dark night. You were walking home. Where were you walking from? Where were you walking to? You were with someone. Who were you with? How were you feeling? You saw something. What did you see? You heard something. What did you hear? How did you feel? What did you do? What happened next?

Story Square Look at the letters in the grid. Can you write them out to make a story? Think about where to put capital letters, full stops, commas and speech marks.

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l w t e i h k w s i d d d e t e w

i a h s n e e a a e e h n p h i d

t l e a g g d s I l r I e h e k e

t k r w p r h f d e t m v a m n r

l i o a o o i o i p h t e n a e w

e n a m w u m r t h e h r t n w o

b g d a d n w t w a b a s s s t r

o a w n e d h h a n o t e t a h k

y l h s r h a e s t y h e h i i e

w o e h o e t m a p t e n e d s d

a n n a n a i a n o o h e r s p

A little boy was walking alone the road when he saw a man shaking powder on the ground . He asked him
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SPACED OUT
Can you write this story out again putting the spaces in the correct places between the words?

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Activity:12 Message in the bottle

Activity:13 Wish Tree

Activity:12 Wish Tree

Activity:12 Wish Tree

Activity 14: Fill in the speech bubbles.

Lets go out and eat at a restaurant tonight. Im sorry I cant. Im too tired

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