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

Teacher Training Writing Class: Week 3

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These English exercises help ESL students learn how to improve writing sentences and paragraphs.

THESIS SENTENCES

A thesis sentence is your main idea. It is the first sentence of a paragraph. It is important to learn how to write this sentence. When you learn how to write this sentence, your writing, speaking and thinking skills will also be better.

Here is an example.

Many Americans buy Japanese cars. (not a thesis sentence)

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Writing Class 2014: Week 3

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This week’s lesson plan and activities

  1. Check your understanding of the answers from the textbook. Remember: it is your job to make sure you understand the questions, answers, and vocabulary.
  2. Finish writing the rafting story (from last week).
  3. Write the dog and sausage story (from week 2 post).
  4. Write the short story that shows emotion (from week 2 post).
  5. Rewrite the howl story (wolf boy story based on the video).
  6. Quick review of Six Writing Traits.

This week

It’s another week to learn and improve English paragraph writing skills.

Writing skills to learn and practice this week:

  1. tighter sentences
  2. fewer words
  3. choppy sentences
  4. more descriptions
  5. more sentence variety.

Writing Activity 1: Write Less to Say More

This is a reflective writing activity. It’s importance is to help student become conscious of the act of writing. In this case, to develop an awareness of wordy

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English Advanced Conversation: Week 3

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Two weeks ago we did a short exercise about six thinking hats. These hats help ESL students find new and interesting ways to talk in English about any conversation topic.

  1. White Hat: Facts.
  2. Red Hat: Emotion and opinions.
  3. Yellow Hat: Good points. What you like about it?
  4. Black Hat: Bad points. Mistakes you can find.
  5. Green Hat: Creativity. What if was another way?
  6. Blue Hat: Conclusions. The main idea.

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