Writing
Questions
1. Do you prefer writing or typing?
2. What are your biggest problems with writing?
3. When do you need to write in your everyday life?
4. Do you think writing will disappear in the future?
5. Do you like your handwriting? How would you describe it?
6. How old do people learn to write in your country?
7. Is writing in your language different from writing in English?
8. Do you prefer reading, listening, speaking or writing?
Videos
An animated interpretation of William Shakespeare’s poem “All the World’s a Stage”
Poem by William Shakespeare, directed by Jeffig Le Bars and Jérémie Balais.
Poem by William Shakespeare, directed by Jeffig Le Bars and Jérémie Balais.
Category: Art | Education & Language
How do metaphors help us better understand the world? And, what makes a good metaphor? Explore these questions with writers like Langston Hughes and Carl Sandburg, who have mastered the art of bringing a
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scene or emotion to life.
Lesson by Jane Hirshfield, animation by Ben Pearce
Lesson by Jane Hirshfield, animation by Ben Pearce
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Category: Art | Education & Language
You need social skills to have a conversation in real life — but they’re quite different from the skills you need to write good dialogue. Educator Nadia Kalman suggests a few “anti-social skills,” like eavesdropping and muttering
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to yourself, that can help you write an effective dialogue for your next story.
Lesson by Nadia Kalman, animation by Enjoyanimation.
Lesson by Nadia Kalman, animation by Enjoyanimation.
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Category: Education & Language
Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn’t just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully developed writing systems, our ancestors scrawled geometric signs across the walls of the
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caves they sheltered in. Paleoanthropologist and rock art researcher Genevieve von Petzinger has studied and codified these ancient markings in caves across Europe. The uniformity of her findings suggest that graphic communication, and the ability to preserve and transmit messages beyond a single moment in time, may be much older than we think.
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Category: Education & Language