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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:

Worksheet ; Answers

  1. Ask each student/pair of students to find the 10 grammatical errors in the first extract.

  2. Check their answers when they have finished.

  3. Ask them to correct the answers.

  4. Check the answers when they have finished.

  5. Ask them to explain each error.

  6. Repeat steps 1-5 for the second extract.

  7. Ask students to do some editing of an extract of their own writing.