Writing Lesson Plan - Back to School

Five minutes free writing on the topic. No readback

Exercise 1 20 minutes

Start your piece with a student discovering a hidden room in a school or college or university library.

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Exercise 2 - longer exercise

Choose one of the following options

1 Write about two rival academics pursuing the same object

(for example, a grant, a promotion, a better office,

the attractive assistant…).

2  Write a story in which a jaded teacher makes an unexpected, rash decision.

3  Set your piece during exam season, when a minor incident sends a

student / teacher /invigilator into a panic.

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