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    BSS jhe trouble with writing is that it is diffielt and hard work, Whoever beard of writing for pleasure? What can fire students with the eagerness and commitment to write? What will drive them to devote energy and staying power to the process of thinking, planning, drafting, re-drafting, and proof-reading that real writing involves? Partly of course the fe page. The good teacher wil try to make the link with rea life but that zequires ‘more time and more dramatic jmagination than most teachers have at ‘heir disposal ‘What material can provide the | stimulus, 2 gripping situation, a fully ‘developed context, a reason to write and an audience? | suggest that much- neglected, much-maligned and much- misused but potentially most vibrant From Reading to Writing Class readers point the way Writing is hard work, says readers can provide a stimulus and a reason to write. 42 « Byousu Tenchi professional » ‘dynamism and presentational skills of the teacher but partly also the materials the teacher has to work with, Unfortunately the average coursebook or supplementary writing coutse is good on the mechanics of ‘writing bt poor on inspiration. The {opis are wosthy but fal to inspire because they exist only on the printed ‘and versatile resource - the class reader, Its different scenes offer umpteen contexts and reasons for writing, its characters provide the writers and the ‘audience, and its theme provides points for discussion and debate. _ First the reading... ‘Take Chemical Secret (Oxford Bookworms, OUP) for example. The chief characteris a widower, who at the start of the story lives in a shabby flat with his two teenage children. A biologist, he had a good job in research before embarking with his energetic. | wife on a business venture, Her death in ‘an accident removed the dynamism for the business, which collapsed, leaving him penniless and depressed. His fortunes improve whea he is employed by a paint factory. There is even a potential second wife whom the children ike, Then the blow falls. John’s research proves without doubt that the ‘waste from the paint factory is poisoning the river estuary. The {manager says it would be too expensive to install «cleaning plant and offers to double John's salary in return for bis silence. Faced with the choice between his job and his principles, John chooses hhis}ob. His felings of guilt undermine his health and his relations with his children and friend, The pollution continues and the waste poisons his daughter when she falls in the water during a Greenworld protest, His ‘suppression of the evidence emerges in 2 court case and he loses his job. The story ends with John making his way to the hospital where his daughter is ‘about 10 give birth to a baby which ‘may be deformed. ‘Chemical Secret has all the ingredients of a successful class reader: | a straight-forward but action-packed plot, a steady pace but developed Scenes that the learner can visualise, distinct and realistic characters, and an underlying message. It entertains and stimulates thought. But itis wasted if itis used only for reading. Tt should also be used to simulate speaking: through discussion, argument, debate and role-play, and. also to stimulate writing though letters, newspaper articles, paylets, reports, stories, summaries, critical reviews, ‘character references, diaries, in fact through all the types of writing listed so

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