ELTWeekly Issue#8, Tip of the week: Reading before Writing

Reading before Writing

by Tarun Patel

Tell the students to read the whole exercise before writing anything. (This will be difficult for some students to do).

Once they’ve read it all, let them begin doing the exercise.

It is a good idea to read the whole exercise before starting to write anything because sometimes more than one answer is possible but, in the exercise the students are doing, only one answer is the right one.

This will also enable the students to answer the questions they know the answer to and guess the rest.