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31 Mar 2020

Flyers Writing Booklet – Making sentences longer

In my third post on the Flyers Writing Booklet, I’m going to share ideas for Making sentences longer. This focus, on making sentences more interesting, follows on from Words to describe pictures and Completing sentences. I focused on these two in my previous...

30 Mar 2020

Flyers Writing Booklet – Completing sentences

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA2 Flyers, writing

In this post, I’ll be looking at Completing Sentences, page 3 of the Flyers Writing Skills Booklet. This follows on from my prevous post, page 2 of the Booklet on Words to describe pictures. The sentences are about the same...

27 Mar 2020

Flyers Writing Skills Booklet – Words to describe pictures

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA2 Flyers, A2 Key for Schools, Pictures, writing

Let’s look at Words to describe pictures from the Flyers Writing Skills Booklet. This is the first step to building up to writing stories, something candidates have to do in the final part of the Reading and Writing papers in...

23 Mar 2020

Taking positive action

Posted ByAnne Robinson

Tags#Stayathome

In the middle of the current situation, I want to be part of the positive action movement. Many teachers have contacted me, asking for help and advice. I’ve been thinking how best to help. Although many teachers are turning to...

18 Mar 2020

Inspiring quotes and views

Posted ByAnne Robinson

Tagscreativity, quotes

The fact that I love inspiring quotes is well-known by students and teachers who read my posts or have been in one of my classes or training sessions. At the bottom of my website, there is a Thought of the day/week...

13 Mar 2020

Focus on: View

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsUse of English, vocabulary

Today, I’m going to write about the word view. It’s an interesting word, and I like the way it sounds! It rhymes with other words that I like – new, blue, grew…. What about you? Do you like the word...

13 Mar 2020

Reacting positively to Coronavirus

Posted ByAnne Robinson

Tagsnews

Yesterday afternoon, I decided to react (and act) positively to Coronavirus. After watching the news for nearly an hour, and having all of my forthcoming training sessions cancelled or postponed, I admit I was feeling a little down. But then,...

9 Mar 2020

Further work on C1 Advanced Reading Part 6 Why do we sleep texts

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsC1 Advanced, engaging with exam tasks, reading, writing

Today, I’m sharing some ideas for further work on the Why do we sleep texts. In my previous post, I outlined an approach to tackle C1 Reading Part 6. In this post, I’d like to explore ways of exploiting the...

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