There is no one answer to the question of how to teach writing in English Foreign Language classes. There are as many answers as there are teachers and teaching styles, or learners and learning styles. Writing means writing a connected text and the process of writing is a valuable tool for all of our students.

Ann Raimes. Techniques in teaching writing.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, p.6.

Choose the correct option concerning the process approach to the teaching of writing

Act I Scene I

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

FIRST WITCH When shall we three meet again?

In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

SECOND WITCH When the hurly-burly’s done.

When the battle’s lost and won.

THIRD WITCH That will be ere the set of sun.

FIRST WITCH Where the place?

SECOND WITCH Upon the heath.

THIRD WITCH There to meet with MacBeth.

FIRST WITCH I come, Grey Malkin.

SECOND WITCH Paddock calls.

THIRD WITCH Annon.

ALL Fair is foul, and foul is fair:

Hover through the fog and filthy air.

Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen (editors). William Shakespeare Complete Works. London: RSC, MacMillan, 2008, p. 1862.

According to Longman Dictionary, genre is a particular type of art, writing, music, etc., which has certain features that all examples of this type share. Considering this definition, choose the option that states the genre of the text above.

“Every educator is a teacher of reading,” the expression goes. That might be a difficult mantra to live by if you consider yourself a mathematician or historian. The truth is that despite your area of expertise, you will find yourself teaching reading and writing at some point during the day in middle or high school. You may be teaching reading to adolescents who struggle to read.

With the blitz of video gaming, social networking and texting, students are bombarded with information daily in multiple ways and settings. They are less interested in reading textbooks and course material and more interested in gathering information in a fast-paced, action-packed manner as they access all they need to know on phones, hand-held gaming devices, tablets or laptops. Moreover, teachers are faced with how to keep adolescents engaged with reading in today’s world and 21st-century classrooms.

Carianne Bernadowski. A Good Read: Literacy Strategy with Newspapers. In: Newspaper Association of America Foundation, 2011. Internet <www.americanpressinstitute.org> (adapted).

It can be concluded from the text above that