Hey teachers, I don't know if you feel the same as I do, but teaching writing is not my cup of tea So here are a couple of writing games and activities that might help Okay, the activities I'm sharing with you in this video aren't for a particular writing skill or lesson So feel free to apply them to whatever lesson you find suitable Let's go the first activity pass or switch or freeze I'm sorry, I couldn't make up my mind. This activity would work as a great warm up or practice My lesson was about the cause and effect essay and I wanted them to brainstorm some ideas in an untraditional way before they start writing so I gave each student a paper with a particular topic like these ones If you have a large class, students can work in pairs or can work in groups Then I explained that they have to write down one single cause or effect depending on their cards and pass it to the student next to them And on the new card they will do the same The cards keep moving from one student to another until we got, you know, enough ideas I enjoyed this activity and I guess my student enjoyed it too Because it encourages them to stay focused on different topics so it wasn't boring at all Because writing can be boring. It also lets them compare their answers with their peers which makes them get more perspectives And all of that happened a fun and gauging way I tried the same activity but with a different topic I was teaching the students how to write a formal email and I used this activity to make them memorize the elements They should include so I put them into groups and I gave each group a couple of papers like these And I told them to write a formal email following the structure they already learned You know, starting with a good subject line, then greeting, then the purpose and all of the good stuff Here they had to pay attention to both the structure of the email and the order of the elements With another group we had the narrative essay I set up the context of the essay a time that you experienced something truly frightening We worked in pairs so every pair had a large piece of paper and I told them Now you're going to start narrating your spooky story But as you write it at some point you will hear me say freeze And when I say freeze even if you're in the middle of a word or in the middle of a sentence You stop writing and transfer your paper to the pair next to you The students began to write I checked that everyone has written something before I said freeze for the first time Then I was like freeze papers were transferred to the next group so that everyone's working with another piece of paper With a different story on it the students finished up their stories I gave them some time to read correct and improve them And honestly all the stories deserved an Oscar Moving on to the second activity writing postcards Using postcards in class can be a motivating writing task and it adds a level of stimulation for the students I have seen this activity online and my students really loved it since they don't have to write too much And I loved it because it involves a certain level of communication and imagination Which I'm personally fond of If you can't get a stack of postcards that's awesome But if you don't have any you could do just like me and print them on papers or cards and add some lovely pictures Anyway if you're teaching kids I recommend getting them to draw their own pictures instead of reprinting them out Ask them to write a postcard to a friend telling them about their imaginary holiday and how the picture relates to it You can absolutely choose a different context Once they have written the cards some of the students write it out loud And at the end I collect it and check them out for them I think I was teaching fragments and run on sentences and saw what errors were made in prepare the correction slot for the next class That's it, Bridea! Thank you for watching awesome teachers!