Building Vocabulary and Improving Writing while Developing a Tourist Brochure

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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 2 featuring the Space Needle in Seattle

This article describes how creating a tourist brochure can help students improve their vocabulary and writing skills. The author describes how to plan writing lessons based on the creation of a brochure: viewing videos, planning the brochure, writing the brochure, getting feedback and rewriting, and displaying the brochure. In the conclusion, the author highlights the benefits of the activity as providing opportunities for contextualized writing and vocabulary learning.

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Siti Katijah Johari

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Teachers Vocabulary Writing Integrated Skills
Cover of English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 2 featuring the Space Needle in Seattle

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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 2 featuring the Space Needle in Seattle

English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 2

This issue focuses on Seattle, the second city on our tour this year. Complementing the feature article is a lesson plan on “Seeing Seattle.” Additional articles in this issue discuss interdisciplinary collaboration, two approaches to student-produced videos, student documentaries as language learni