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Unit 3 Lesson 9

The document discusses the writing process and its various stages: pre-writing, drafting, editing, and publishing. In pre-writing, writers generate ideas and create a plan. The drafting stage involves developing a rough first version using the plan. Editing is when writers check their work, make changes, and rewrite parts. Finally, in publishing, the completed work is presented to readers. The document provides examples of skills used in each stage and guides learning the process through matching exercises and modeling outlines for brainstorming, planning, and drafting a first version on reducing the negative impacts of excessive smartphone use.

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Unit 3 Lesson 9

The document discusses the writing process and its various stages: pre-writing, drafting, editing, and publishing. In pre-writing, writers generate ideas and create a plan. The drafting stage involves developing a rough first version using the plan. Editing is when writers check their work, make changes, and rewrite parts. Finally, in publishing, the completed work is presented to readers. The document provides examples of skills used in each stage and guides learning the process through matching exercises and modeling outlines for brainstorming, planning, and drafting a first version on reducing the negative impacts of excessive smartphone use.

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Unit 3 –Lesson 9 -The Writing as a process

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Unit 3 –Lesson 9 -The Writing as a process

1 pre stage
Introducing the writing process
a. . Match each stage to a description.

Publishing Using your plan & ideas to write a rough first version

Drafting Presenting the piece of writing to the readers

Editing Checking, making alterations and re-writing

Generating ideas and planning what to write


Pre-
writing

b- Now order the steps in task (a) following the footprints.

1 2 3 4
C – Look at the following writing sub-skills and match each one to a stage of the writing process

planning evaluation brainstorming re-ordering

structuring revising focusing on grammar


and vocabulary
checking forming opinions restructuring

presenting finished putting ideas into selecting/ Organizing the


piece to readers sentences rejecting ideas paragraphs

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Unit 3 –Lesson 9 -The Writing as a process

Process writing stages Sub-skills

Pre-writing

Drafting

Editing

Publishing

2 WHILE
practicing the writing process

Topic : Many people access smart phones on a wide basis and a large number of
children play computer games on them. What can be done to minimize the bad effects of
excessive use of phones to play video games ?

Brain Storming - generating ideas


What can be done to minimize the bad effects of excessive use of smart phones ?

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Unit 3 –Lesson 9 -The Writing as a process

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Planning and organizing

Reducing the negative impacts of smart phone gaming

Solution 1 solution 2 solution 3

details details details

3 Post
practicing the writing process First draft

Paragraph #1 – Introduction/Thesis
 Attention-grabbing beginning -
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 Description of issue -

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 THESIS Statement –
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Paragraph #2 - Solution 1
Evidence to support (details and examples)
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Paragraph #2 - solution2 Evidence to support (details and examples)
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Paragraph #3 - solution 3 Evidence to support (details and examples)


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Paragraph #5 – Conclusion
 Restate opinion -
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 Summarize 3 reasons -
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 Call to action or closing statement –


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TeachingEnglish © British Council
9 2015
Answers
Process writing: Part 1
a. The stages of the writing process:
1. pre-writing
2. drafting
3. editing
4. publishing

b. When teaching writing we should follow this process with our students too, teaching and practising the
skills for each stage of the process.

Applying the process


a.

Pre-writing Using your plan & ideas to write a rough first version

Drafting Presenting the piece of writing to the readers

Editing Checking, making alterations and re-writing

Publishing Generating ideas and planning what to write

b.

Process writing stages Sub-skills

Pre-writing Brainstorming,, planning, forming opinions.

Selecting/rejecting ideas, structuring, organizing paragraphs, putting


Drafting
ideas into sentences

Revising, checking, re-ordering, re-structuring,


Editing
focusing on grammar and vocabulary.

Publishing Presenting finished piece to readers, evaluation.

TeachingEnglish © British Council


10 2015

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