IB English B TEXT TYPES SUPPORT: FORMAL and INFORMAL SWIRL LESSON

TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT SWIRL LESSON: Formal and Informal
(60 minutes)

This lesson supports the writing of all text types.

Resources:

1. No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
2. Handout resources

Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have discerned through speaking, writing, interacting, reading and listening (SWIRL) activities. the rules for writing both formal and informal registers using 4 formal and informal letters . From a loud starter, to paired tasks where students have to use their inference and observation skills, to a rules-generating activity, your students will rely on previous knowledge and newly-shared information to formulate rules for formal and informal writing.

Activities:

1. Activity 1: INTERACTIVE STARTER: to write on the board things they already know about formal and informal writing. (5 minutes)
2. Activity 2: READING AND SPEAKING TASK: To use observation and inference skills to identify how texts conform to what they already know. Students will be comparing two formal and 2 informal texts. (15 minutes)
3. Activity 3: READING , SPEAKING AND LISTENING: To identify ways that informal texts have been made more formal. (20 minutes)
4. Activity 4: WRITING TASK: To formulate a list of rules for writing in formal and informal registers, and to share their ideas to clear misconceptions or improve their lists. (15 minutes)
   PLENARY: to add to the ideas generated at the beginning at the lesson. (5 minutes)
   HOMEWORK: To research the rules for formal and informal and add them to the notes made during the lesson.

Apart from the need to print handouts and a few bits of admin, this lesson is NO-PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE.
(You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements.)

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