http://www.popplet.com/app/#/30284 What kind of text is this for?

Find an interesting article

• BBC News magazine: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine/

• Guardian magazine: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/weekend

• New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/• History Today: http://www.historytoday.com/ • Economist: http://www.economist.com/

Analyse it• Why did you choose it? What made you click on

it?• How are you ‘pulled into’ the article?• What is the structure of the article? • How does the writer make you want to keep

reading?• How many ‘topic’ words can you find? e.g. in an

article about memory: “off by heart”, “memorize”, “cram”, “pore over”, “by rote”

• What discourse markers does the writer use? e.g. “however”, “in addition to that”, “consequently”

Write your own

A magazine for foreign learners of English is looking for new articles to answer this question:“What is the best way to learn English?”It should be approximately 250 words.ORChoose your own title.

Edit it

• Is all of the information relevant?• Is it logically structured?• Is each paragraph about a separate point?• Have you used appropriate discourse markers?• Have you used a range of vocabulary and

structures?• Is it the right length (about 250 words)?