Example 1: postcards (pre-intermediate/intermediate)
This guided writing sequence shows how students at a fairly early level can be helped to write within a certain genre so that when they do the final writing task, they have everything they need to do it successfully.
Students are told that when we write postcards, we often leave out a lot of words to save space (e.g. "We're having a great time', 'the food is wonderful'). They then read the following postcard and decide where the words in the box should go:
The students now look at another postcard, but this time they have to circle the words that can be left out.
Finally, students imagine they are on holiday themselves. They can discuss their holiday in pairs or small groups, deciding where they will send the postcard from and what they want to say. We will ask them to pay special attention to the kinds of words they can leave out.
We could also get them to look at how postcards are structured. For example: description of where the writer is; activities the writer is involved in; exhortation to the reader ('Hope you are well/Get well soon', etc); sign off ('Wish you were here, Love P'). We can then get them to write something similar. At beginner levels, some teachers give students 'postcard phrases' for them to arrange into a postcard.
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