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Informal Register: Error correction

Jun

22

2015

Salaam folks! Here’s what I gave to my grade eight learners today! I’m actually planning to go octopus hunting and this is a real letter! This way, I make sure the classroom environment is lively. My students started laughing as they started reading the letter. It was really good to see them laugh! The main… ...

ESL Theme – The Outer Space

Jun

1

2015

Contributed by Muhammad Malik, English Teacher, R. Inguraidhoo School Note from Malik: I put together this theme with core students in mind, however they can also be used for extended students. I did this in order to make life easy for more during the month of Ramadan. So I do not have to worry about… ...

Narrative Letter Error Correction

May

4

2015

After introducing narrative letters and its features, this is one way of getting students to think about what they have learned and find out typical mistakes made by fellow students. This was given to grade 8 learners after the topic was covered. This is a response to exercise 6 of November 2009 Extended Paper. Read… ...

Descriptive Sentences Collection

Apr

24

2015

Salaam everyone! Here’s what I promised! A comprehensive list of descriptive sentences written by All of my grade 10 students. Minor changes have been made in some sentences. Hope you find this collection really useful when you teach descriptive letter writing. If you have something to share, please let us know. We would love to… ...

Narrative Letters – Peer-analysis checklist

Mar

10

2015

A good narrative letter, can be compared to a phone call! How? Well, it’s just like you telling some “hot news” to a close friend of yours. Will you wait for a month to give hot news? Probably not, right? So would it be okay to start your narrative with “It’s been ages since I… ...

ESL Letter November 2009 Analysis

Feb

25

2015

Dear Sylvia, I can’t wait to tell you what I did yesterday – the memories are fresh so I can give you all the gory details. Do you remember the ‘Play & Fit Sports Centre’ I told you about last month? Well, it’s opened last week and I went to check it out with Zaahy,… ...