Service Description

Phase 2: It is a 1-to-3 course. Phase 2. The main focus of the course is learning how to write fluently and effectively in English with varied sentence structure, ambitious vocabulary and a variety of figurative language. The course includes areas designed to build a student’s confidence, ways to improve their writing in terms of sentence structure, vocabulary and figurative language, and lots of hints and tips for how to boost their mark in an exam situation. We also factor in past papers from a variety of well-known independent schools to prepare the students for the range of exams that they may take. PHASE TWO – Organising and Structuring Material 1. Connecting form and structure – ways of writing - List as many different places as possible where they might see writing in their daily lives. 2. ‘Micro-structuring’ material – parts of speech­ - Correct a series of sentences that have no punctuation in and decide when one sentence ends and the next begins. 3. Introducing narrative – direct and indirect speech - Rules of punctuation in direct speech, including the correct use of commas, full stops, new paragraphs and so on, by playing an odd-one-out game. 4. Structuring material – paragraphs as emotional device - Three pieces of writing – one all in one long paragraph, one separated neatly into manageable chunks, and one with paragraphs of various lengths. 5. The organisation of fiction writing (1) – tension - Students will look at a piece of tense writing and will draw a graph which relates to how tense they are feeling as I read it to them. 6. The organisation of fiction writing (2) – action and description Students will be presented with sample pieces of writing and will judge whether they should contain more or less description/narrative. 7. The organisation of fiction writing (3) – beginnings, middles and endings - Students will be presented with sample stories and will be invited to decide whether it can be grouped into a beginning, a middle and an end. 8. Playing with and manipulating narrative fiction writing – genre - Students will be asked what is meant by ‘genre’ and to think of some examples. 9. Imaginative and realistic writing – first, second and third person accounts - Look at four short pieces of writing: a diary, a letter, a recipe and a newspaper article. 10. Putting it all together – planning and executing story-writing to time - Use the previous lessons as a ‘checklist’ as to what to include in each story.