Creative writing for students

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1. Type five sentences about your daily routine in a word processor and colour every noun blue, every verb red and every adjective green using the font colour tool.
2. Make a table of the eight parts of speech with three examples of each taken from a newspaper article or a story, and write one sentence of your own for each part of speech.
3. Write pairs of sentences in which the same word does two different jobs, such as email as a verb and as a noun, for five words including after, fast and work.

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1. Write one sentence about your own life in each of the 12 tenses using the same verb, such as study, and arrange them in a table like the one in the lesson.
2. Make a list of 20 irregular verbs with their three forms, such as go, went, gone, and test yourself with a partner until you can say all of them without looking.
3. Write ten incorrect sentences that break the lesson's rules that save marks, swap them with a partner, and correct each other's sentences, naming the rule each one broke.

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1. Write a or an before 20 words that test the sound rule, such as hour, university, MBA, European and honest, saying each word aloud to check its first sound.
2. Describe your classroom or room in eight sentences using at, on and in for place, then write five sentences about your weekly timetable using at, on and in for time.
3. Make flashcards for the fixed pairs in the lesson and ten more of your own, such as afraid of and proud of, and write a sentence using each one.

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1. Write one sentence for each rule in the lesson's table about people and things at your centre or home, and underline the subject and its verb in each.
2. Write five sentences with a long phrase between the subject and the verb, such as The box of old files is in the store, and check each one by covering the middle words.
3. Write a short paragraph about a cricket team, your family and a school committee, using each collective noun with a singular verb where the group acts as one unit.

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1. Write one active sentence for each tense in the lesson's table, such as Sunita types the letter, and change each one into the passive voice.
2. Change five questions and three commands into the passive voice, such as Who wrote this letter and Switch off the fan, checking the form of be in each answer.
3. Collect five passive sentences that leave out the doer from notices, newspapers or forms, such as Mobile phones are not allowed, and write why the doer has been left out of each one.

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1. Write ten statements a friend made to you in direct speech, then report each one in indirect speech after said, changing the pronouns, tenses and time words.
2. Write five yes/no questions and five wh-questions in direct speech and change them into reported questions using asked with if, whether or the question word.
3. Turn five commands and requests you hear at home or in class, such as Close the window and Please give me a pen, into indirect speech using told, requested and not to.

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1. Type an answer to Tell me about yourself in four parts, covering your name and qualification, your skills, any experience and what you want to do next, then record yourself reading it aloud and listen back.
2. Write a formal email to an imaginary manager asking for a day's leave, with Dear Mr or Ms and the name, a first line saying why you are writing, a specific request and a polite closing.
3. Write down ten sentences you hear around you that contain errors from the lesson's table, such as Myself Pooja or Explain me this, and rewrite each one correctly.