Duration: seven weeks – 1 lesson/week – 3 hours/lesson
Overall goal of a unit of work: student would enhance their writing skill in academic context. Knowing the key strategy to write up a particular type of academic essay in IELTS.
Long-term goal: students can apply those type of academic essay in their writing at university and working place.
Type of syllabus: skill-based syllabus
The need from writing skill:
Lexical resource: able to use more academic words that they learned into an essay / aware of style and collocation in writing.
Grammar range and accuracy: fix up at sentence level
To meet task achievement: need to understand how to analyse and plan an essay
Coherence and cohesion:
Unit of work:
Week Lesson Lesson objective Materials Activities Assessment
1 Academic writing style Grammar and accuracy
Fix up at sentence level
2 Analysing the requirement and planning essay Task achievement
3 Writing with clarity Coherence cohesion
4 Opinion essay Task achievement
Lexical resource
5 Discussion essay Task achievement
Lexical resource
6 Advantage/ disadvantage essay Task achievement
Lexical resource
7 Cause/ solution essay Task achievement
Lexical resource
8 Direct question essay Task achievement
Lexical resource