5-10-15-minute activities to improve your writing skills

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Page 1: 5-10-15-minute activities to improve your writing skills

Writing Skills

Improve your Writing Skills daily even if you only have a few minutes!

5­minute activities

Revise your irregular verbs with a short game at https://quizlet.com/77869924/83­flash­cards/; Learn a new idiom listening to this amazing BBC podcast

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/the­english­we­speak Read insanely useful https://twitter.com/The_YUNiversity account about writing rules and typical

problems; Learn a couple of new words doing test on https://www.vocabulary.com/; Watch a hilarious Comma Queen video about writing skills http://bit.ly/1GWNlGU

10­minute activities

Watch a video on http://www.engvid.com/topic/writing/. They have a great choice of videos for 3 levels!

Write 5 sentences with new words you learnt this week and post them to https://www.italki.com/notebooks for proofreading

Write a couple of messages to your friends on Interpals website https://www.interpals.net/account.php or Tandem app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tandem­language­exchange­teachers/id959001619?mt=8)

Write a capture in English to some photo of yours on Instagram

15­minute activities

Write a short text about your day and post it to https://www.italki.com/notebooks to receive feedback from native speakers;

Watch a lesson on http://ed.ted.com/lessons about any topic of your interest; write and submit your answer to the questions in the 'Think' section

Please share this guide with your friends if you like it!

Please send me an email to [email protected] and tell me which resources you used and how they helped you improve your writing skills!

2016 Daria Storozhilova www.stordar.com