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Dictation

Get your pens out
When I was at school dictation meant learning a passage or list of vocabulary at home in preparation for a test the next day. The teacher read out the text or list piece by piece, pausing for us to write what we heard. Our scripts were taken in and marked. A point from a total of 20 was taken off for every mistake in spelling, punctuation or missed out word. If you had over twenty mistakes you got a minus score – which meant a student who wrote nothing could score higher than one with a lot of mistakes!     read more >>


 

Techniques for developing narrative skills.

Intermediate levels and above


Beginning and ending stories.

“Techniques to begin your story”
An interesting beginning is as important as an interesting ending. An interesting beginning will catch the reader’s attention and make him/her want to continue reading.     read more >>


 

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