On cover page: "Contains photocopiable material".

Includes indexes.

"Writing games is a collection of 40 games and activities for low intermediate to advanced students of English.
A variety of activity types including guessing, matching, exchange and reply, role play, imaginative stimulus, formula poems and stories, random association, looking at familiar things from a new angle, brainstorming, describing what you see, spontaneous fast writing
Practice in different types of writing, such as advertisements, descriptions, letters, narrative, newspaper articles, notices, poems, postcards
Individual, pair work, group and whole class activities
Teaching notes for games 1-40, and material designed to be photocopied for games 1-30
Indexes of the structures, functions and lexical areas practised in each activity." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

List of games

Index of structures and grammar areas

Index of lexical areas

Index of functions

Introduction

Teacher's notes for games 1-40

Photocopiable material for games 1-30

LIST OF GAMES

1. Thank-you letters
Function: expressing thanks
Type of writing: letter

2. Job applications
Function: describing abilities
Type of writing: advertisements, letter

3. Animal problems
Function: asking for and giving advice
Type of writing: letter

4. Rules
Function: permission and prohibition
Type of writing: notices

5. Moral tales
Function: narrating past events
Type of writing: narrative

6. Riddles
Function: describing objects
Type of writing: description

7. Sense association
Function: describing sense impressions
Type of writing: poem

8. Election manifestos
Function: promises and predictions
Type of writing: manifesto

9. A martian sends a postcard home
Function: describing objects and habits
Type of writing: postcard

10. Warnings
Function: giving advice and warnings
Type of writing: notices

11. Interplanetary penfriends
Function: exchanging personal information
Type of writing: letter

12. Café portraits
Function: describing people
Type of writing: poem

13. Rip van Winkle writes home
Function: describing changes
Type of writing: letter

14. Headline jumble
Function: reporting past events
Type of writing: newspaper article

15. Cartoon treasure hunt
Function: narrating past events
Type of writing: narrative

16. Concrete poems
Function: describing objects, feelings and concepts
Type of writing: poem

17. Haiku
Function: describing objects and feelings
Type of writing: poem

18. Diamond poems
Function: describing characteristics
Type of writing: poem

19. Fairytale update
Function: narrating past events
Type of writing: narrative

20. History / Herstory
Function: narrating past events
Type of writing: narrative

21. The Interstellar Times
Function: narrating past events, expressing opinions, describing objects, promises, predictions, describing films and listing entertainment
Type of writing: newspaper articles, letters, advertisements, reviews

22. Hard sell
Function: persuasion, promises
Type of writing: advertisements

23. Soap operas
Function: expressing emotions
Type of writing: dialogue

24. Xmas mail mart
Function: describing objects and how they work
Type of writing: advertisement

25. Circle writing
Function: various
Type of writing: dialogue

26. Lonely hearts
Function: giving personal information
Type of writing: advertisement, letter

27. Freaky fables
Function: narrating past events
Type of writing: narrative

28. Postcards from the third millennium
Function: describing scenes, places, habits and customs
Type of writing: postcard

29. Secret thoughts of modern art
Function: various
Type of writing: monologue

30. Art adventure
Function: narrating past events
Type of writing: narrative

31. Definition poems
Function: describing concepts and feelings
Type of writing: poems

32. Film shots
Function: describing scenes and places
Type of writing: description

33. Dream dictation
Function: narrating past events, describing scenes and places
Type of writing: description, narrative

34. Dream auction
Function: narrating past events, describing scenes and places
Type of writing: description, narrative

35. Detective stories
Function: narrating past events
Type of writing: narrative

36. Half fruit
Function: describing sense impressions
Type of writing: description

37. Fashion show
Function: describing clothes
Type of writing: description

38. Love letters
Function: expressing emotion
Type of writing: letter

39. Postcards
Function: describing scenes and places
Type of writing: postcard

40. Catalogue poems
Function: describing scenes
Type of writing: poem