The main goal is to motivate students to generate topics and acquire content for writing. It is the stage that provides students with vocabulary, syntax and language structure as well as ideas. Give students some time to think about the questions. Ask students to answer the questions. Write the students answers on the blackboard.
Students can come up with as many ideas as possible on a given topic.
Interviewing Ask students to interview friends sitting near them about current events that have happened in their community. Have students take notes about the events. Help them with English words they will need for their writing. Make a list on the blackboard for them to refer to. Have students write short parts of their interviews that include direct quotes from their partners.