Scrapbook project: Target texts: 1) Very short stories mini-sagas etc 2) Diary entries 3) Famous peoples school reports

s 4) Q and A/ interviews 5) Poems in plain/ standard English 6) ? Shopping lists / msgs in a bottle/ postcards which took a long time to arrive 7) Quirkies 8) Heroic failures 9) 5 minute mysteries/ puzzle stories/ riddles 10) Story skeletons for elaboration ; Greek myths ; Leila and Majnoun ; Scottish ghost stories/ folk tales etc 11) Potted biographies of interesting lives in simple language 12) Reading and listening strategies in student-lg ! 13) Vocabulary inferencing tips 14) Key collocations by level 15) Rhymes and rhythmic poems for pron ; chants etc 16) Authentic but simple dialogues for everyday situations- can use with Bilboroughs dialogue activities or C and D in A 17) News stories with a strong narrative thread (cf Beths lorry driver story !) 18) Short speeches with good rhetorical devices 19) Adverts/ designs etc. see dandad/org/ metro and D and AD organisation/ advertising Oscars ; products - e.g. chin dogu, sales shtick slips etc 20) Small ads/ lonely hearts ads ; 21) Skits and sketches ?? 22) Vocal warm-up exercises/ elocution/ accent reduction 23) Poems for Grammar structures- see RESCOL etc 24) Decent songs for different gr structures 25) Novel blurbs as plot summaries ; 26) Rags to riches stories ; inspiring stories (e.g. KIWA microlending people..) 27) Busy paintings with lots of details ! 28) Action mazes 29) Typologies- types of tourist, types of lover, types of spender, types of email writer etc ; cod psychology quizzes ; 30) Luzumsuz encyclopedia etc : lifes conundrums ! ; childrens definitions and childrens questions to parents ! 31) Moral dilemmas 32) Thought-provoking questions- creative questions to tickle the mind etc 33) Irish toasts, wishes, curses, colourful insults and put-downs, chat-up lines etce.g. Georgian toasts ? 34) Mnemonic rhymes ? ; proverbs from other countries ; 35) Structures of a business plan, of a memo, of an advertising sloganetc 36) Famous letters, letters from epistolary novels MODERN epistolary novels.. 37) Rhetorical structures, rhetorical devices 38) Writing exercises 39) Improv games

40) Job candidates- pics and biog 41) Interview questions 42) Conversation Menus cf Oxford Muse 43) Games people play.. role-play cards etc