Editing for Language Accuracy
Aim: |
to familiarise students with the purpose of editing and typical common grammatical errors to look out for |
Target Audience: |
students |
Relevance to IELTS: |
General Training Writing |
Organisation: |
pairs or individual work |
Materials needed: |
- Ask each student/pair of students to find the 10 grammatical errors in the first extract.
- Check their answers when they have finished.
- Ask them to correct the answers.
- Check the answers when they have finished.
- Ask them to explain each error.
- Repeat steps 1-5 for the second extract.
- Ask students to do some editing of an extract of their own writing.
