Guided writing
You may suggest your students: 1) underlining (grouping) a given letter or a letter combination for a certain sound or grammar item in words depicting the names of school things, animals, birds, colours, etc.; 2) copying only the correct sentence (students are given a picture with 3 sentences underneath. They have to choose which sentence describes the picture correctly and copy it out); 3) correcting the wrong sentences (students have to re-write sentences carrying false information in conjunction with pictures where necessary); 4)
   writing answers (filling in a questionnaire) to the questions which enable them to write a coherent paragraph and at the same time give them practice in grammar. E.g. Exercise 5. Look at the following example:
2) Now write some sentences about your friends in your exercise books. The teacher may use substitution and transformation for guided writing. These activities allow for the formation of a large number of sentences: · Substitution: Nick has a sister (Students are to use other words instead of ‘ sister’). · Completion: - How many … are there in the room? – He did his job well because… (Students are expected to fill in gaps with correspond- ing words). · Extension: Ann has brought some flowers (Students are expected to use adjectives before ‘ flowers’ – beautiful, red, Chinese, violet, etc.).
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1) Now ask your friends and write down their answers:
