UsingEnglish.com 6 Fun Writing Business Reports Activities
UsingEnglish.com 6 Fun Writing Business Reports Activities gives six classroom activities for practicing the format and language of business reports. UsingEnglish.com publishes grammar, vocabulary and ESL teaching resources, and the article is by Alex Case. The activities cover a language list dictation, rewriting a model report word by word, making sentences from report language, a question game and two chain-writing games.
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How It Helps Your Business English
The article describes six activities. A list dictation has learners group report language by function, from section headings to trend language. New from old has them change one word at a time in a model report without breaking it. Discuss and agree turns report phrases into true sentences, and make me say yes is a question game. Chain writing and consequences build a report line by line.
You can use the list dictation to sort the phrases you already half-know into the functions a report actually needs, which makes them easier to recall while drafting. The word-change game forces you to justify every choice in a model report, so you notice the grammar and punctuation that hold it together. The chain-writing games show how far a report can drift when each section is written alone.
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