Teaching essay writing
Today I presented a seminar with ideas about teaching essay writing, with a particular focus on FCE and IELTS exam tasks. It’s part of the monthly seminar series at International House Sevastopol.
The slides from the presentation and all of the resources can be found below. You can download everything from slideshare, for which you will need to create a free account. The links in the presentation are clickable. You’ll find full details of all of the activities in the notes which accompany each slide, which you’ll be able to see when you download the presentation.
Three different types of IELTS essay question (adapted from DC IELTS):
IELTS questions to classify by type (adapted from DC IELTS):
Potato talks from Thinking in the EFL Class
FCE essay to put in order (via Pavla Milerski):
Essay structure (via Pavla Milerski):
Photo from ELTpics by @yearinthelifeof, under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license
I’d like to thank Olga Stolbova from IH Sevastopol and Pavla Milerski from IH Brno for helping me to put the seminar together.
The next one in the series will take place on February 22nd 2014, on the theme of teaching stress patterns in pronunciation. Olga will present it. If you’re in the area, we’d love to see you there!
