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Rob Whyte is a university teacher, teacher trainer and writer.

The 21 ESL Writing Tools Project

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21 Writing Tools:  Project Outline (a work in progress)

This series of English lessons is designed for teachers who want to help ESL students learn English writing.

These ESL lessons focus on easy to explain, skills-based classroom exercises that improve student performance. The writing skills include sentence structure, vocabulary development, some grammar to improve idea clarity, as well as paragraph organization.

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#10 Teach English Writing – How to Self Edit

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Teach English Writing – How to Self-Edit

Main Idea

When faced with the task of revising English text on their own, ESL students often hesitate because they do not know what to do. As a result, they may focus on writing conventions, like grammar, spelling or punctuation without addressing higher order challenges like cohesion or style. A few students seem to think that rewrite means recopy. This lesson focuses on one specific rewriting objective and three techniques to help students go beyond proofreading during the redrafting stage.

The objective is enable ESL students with the ability to create emphasis by putting the most important idea at the end of the sentence. To accomplish this task, students will learn how to manipulate three sentence patterns:

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Learn English Speaking, 3

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Learn English Speaking, 3

Here is the plan for this week’s English conversation class.

  1. develop listening and speaking skills by completing textbook chapters 7c and d;
  2. improve vocabulary by solving compound word worksheet;
  3. develop speaking fluency – practice simple sentence patterns – questions and answers
  4. improve fluency with a simple worksheet with prepositions. Match the adjective and preposition. Move through the maze. then use each pair to make a question for your partner. (no need to print)
  5. Quick pair work exercise to practice final sounds.

Conversation Questions

Student A

  1. What looks different when it is cold than when it is hot?
  2. What would you not cut with a knife?
  3. What can you identify by its smell with your eyes closed?
  4. What can you do at school, but not at home?
  5. What stays hot all winter?
  6. Say three pairs of homophones.

Student B

  1. What are things money can’t buy?
  2. What can you use to protect yourself against the sun?
  3. In what situations should you always wash your hands first?
  4. What would the world be like without money?
  5. What would you never eat with salt?
  6. Agree or Disagree: one is better than zero? Why?

 

PHOTO CREDIT

The image in this post comes from Alice Popkorn and its use complies with the owner’s creative commons licensing terms.

Learn English Writing, 3

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Learn English Writing, 3

Work Plan – Week 3

  1. complete self-edit sentence exercises;
  2. complete murder mystery number 2 – death for dinner;
  3. complete third draft of story about past actions;
  4. complete second draft of murder mystery;
  5. practice editing with some error correction exercises proofreading exercise 2;
  6. check answers for paraphrase with synonyms exercise;
  7. complete reading and questions for chapter 2 in the textbook;

 

 

PHOTO CREDIT

The image in this post comes from Will Hastings and its use complies with the owner’s creative commons licensing terms.