ELT365 · Day 199 — Drafting
Idea — First drafts are for getting ideas down — fluency over accuracy. Teaching learners to draft without self-editing first is a skill in itself. Example — ‘Write…
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English Teaching July 17, 2026
ELT365 · Day 198 — Planning a Piece of Writing
Idea — Planning before writing improves coherence and reduces mid-draft paralysis. Teaching learners to plan is itself a productive-skill lesson. Example — A mind map, a bullet-point list,…
English Teaching July 17, 2026
ELT365 · Day 197 — The Process Approach to Writing
Idea — Process writing treats writing as a cycle: plan, draft, revise, edit. The product is secondary to the thinking behind it. Example — Learners brainstorm, write a…
English Teaching July 8, 2026
ELT365 · Day 209 — Collaborative Writing: Group Tasks That Work
Idea — Collaborative writing tasks require genuine interdependence — each writer has a role (planner, drafter, editor) that the group needs. When any learner can write everything alone,…
English Teaching July 8, 2026
ELT365 · Day 207 — Summary Writing: Selection and Compression
Idea — Summary writing requires selecting main ideas and compressing them — cutting examples, repetition, and hedging. It is a separate skill from both reading comprehension and extended…
English Teaching July 8, 2026
ELT365 · Day 206 — Opinion Essays: Beyond the Five-Paragraph Formula
Idea — The five-paragraph essay formula produces predictable, weak writing at B2+. Teaching learners to argue — claim, evidence, concession, rebuttal — produces stronger thinking and stronger prose.…
English Teaching July 8, 2026
ELT365 · Day 204 — Email Writing: The Professional Register in Practice
Idea — Professional emails follow a predictable structure: greeting → purpose → body → request or next step → close. Teaching the moves explicitly saves learners from burying…
English Teaching July 8, 2026
ELT365 · Day 203 — Personal and Informal Writing: Register Markers
Idea — Informal register in writing shows through contractions, ellipsis, discourse markers (“anyway,” “so”), and first-person directness. Teaching register means comparing formal and informal versions of the same…
English Teaching July 8, 2026
ELT365 · Day 202 — Academic Writing at B2+: Hedging Language
Idea — Academic writing requires hedging — language that marks claims as tentative rather than absolute: “suggests,” “appears to,” “it is possible that.” Over-claiming is a register error,…
English Teaching July 8, 2026
ELT365 · Day 201 — Genre Awareness: What the Text Type Demands
Idea — Different genres carry different expectations for structure, register, and purpose. Teaching learners to read genre before writing it reduces the “wrong shape” problem in exam and…