Fun Writing Activities For English Class

In the previous article we have discussed some teaching methods by using some games. In this article we will continue for the next methods which is focused in Fun Writing. There are some activities that we can conduct, such as:

1. Journal Writing

• Students keep a journal for one week as homework.
• At the end of the week students write the journal up as a narrative, for example.
• Alternatively students take turns giving an oral recount from the journal for that week.

2. Collecting Anecdotes

• Another good journal activity is for Students to collect anecdotes. This call be done over a whole term.
• Students keep their journal with them at all times and as they hear anecdotes they make notes. They can do this in Bahas.i Indonesia.
• At the end of term students choose and wi ire two of the hest anecdotes in English.

3. Writing to Imaginary Family and Friends

• Collect or make postcards with pictures of interesting and unusual places on.
• Students create a role for themselves and write to their imaginary family or friend about their adventures.
• Alternatively students can write letters to each other (anonymously if they like) and each student has to write a reply. This could be a weekly activity where each week every student has to write a letter and then write a letter ill reply to a received letter.

3. Jigsaw Writing

• After the initial brainstorming and planning sessions put students into pairs.
• One student writes two or three paragraphs from the plan and the other chooses a different selection of paragraphs.
• Students then write their paragraphs alone.
• Then students come together to work out how to link their work into one essay. They may have to rewrite some sentences to ensure linking and they will have to use appropriate cohesive devices (for notes oil cohesion please see the Teacher's Guide).
• Finally, students write an introductory paragraph and a final concluding paragraph and a title.

4. Writing to Pictures

• There are some comic strips and writing for pictures activities in the Classroom Activities Booklets. Use these as models and make (,),- collect more. For example, the Jakarta Post has comic strips that you can erase the writing from.
• Students are likely to have lots of comics too. Ask them to copy a few pages from a favorite comic, blank out the writing and exchange with another student, who then writes dialogue to fit the pictures.
• Students can draw their own pictures, comics, and posters and write dialogue and captions for them.
• Collect and build a bank of interesting pictures and sequences of pictures for students to write about and to use as story prompts.

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