Hello ,feiends!

   I �m teaching 4th year students this year and they will sit for a national exam next June to go to secondry school. I �m new at this middle school and pupils are really slow ;they don �t  have the simple basics in English.I have a programme to finish on time.

Have you got any ideas how to help them develop their skills especially in writing?

Thank in advance. 

considering they are slow pupils, in writing you may find interesting to build a guided composition.

 

Write on the board some very basic questions such as:

 

What �s your name?

How old are you? 

Where are you from?

Where do you live today?

 .... etc

 

Help them answer each question in their notebooks without copying the questions.

Then you may want to build another composition, but this time using a friend �s name so as they will practice the third person of singular. 

 

In conversation, you may do the same thing after practicing the writing. However, most teachers prefer to use oral skills first, then havethem write what they have just practiced in conversation. 

 

Hello!

I - too - prefer the oral skills...But as the writing skills are concerned ...Why not have them write a kind of "Yearbook" ? It �s an activity where pupils write about themselves ( their Identity ; their likes & dislikes ; their hobbies ; the places they �d like to visit; etc ! ) I have my Special needs do such a work ( and they have to find photos on the Net to illustrate their personal page…) They usually like it a lot, and write great personal pages !  

I always make a book/Leaflet with all their pages , and give them a copy. They love it, and such an activity makes them improve their written English…

Hope this helps,

Val 

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