>> Then it's very important that you keep guiding the students through the writing task.
Not just the warm up, which we often do,
but actually during the writing task you also give them guidance.
Especially the lower the proficiency level, the more guidance your students will need.
So what can they be doing during writing?
Step 3, write a paragraph that explains where the story takes place, who was there,
what was the funny event, so just kind of a description, a narration, a straight narration.
And then in step 4, you could ask them to have 2, 3 paragraphs,
and this can go in so many different directions.
But with our theme for winter break, you can have them talk about what happened before.
What caused this event, descriptions of the main characters, what--
that explains why this event was funny.
So have them think a little bit more about the audience again
and making the writing interesting and engaging for your reader.
And when they focus on the writing and focus on the purpose of the writing,
they often engage more with the vocabulary and they can also engage more with the grammar.
'Cause when you really have to communicate to somebody else, you have to be more precise.
And research has found that when the students are aware of their audience,
they are more likely to pay attention to form, to accuracy and also the vocabulary
that they use, different sentence structures just to keep it kind of exciting.
You want, you might wanna point out that regardless of what they write,
they wanna make this interesting.
So read through your material again and keep it very interesting for your students.
You want, you wanna focus on the arc, so actual writing structure,
have a beginning, a middle and an end.
Again, not just on grammar, not just on vocabulary.