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

ESL Intermediate Conversation – Week 9

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Last week the ESL students practiced their English conversations skills during the mid term exam. Now its back to the English classroom to learn vocabulary, phrases, grammar and conversation skills.

ESL CONVERSATION WORKSHEETS

Here are some of the things we will learn and study in the conversation class.

  1. A simple grammar exercise, this ESL conversation worksheet helps students review questions and answers with TOO MUCH and TOO MANY.
  2. This reading and thinking worksheet has a few logic puzzles. Solve the problems and explain how you got the answer.
  3. This worksheet has a few public signs. Students read the signs, learn the vocabulary and explain the meaning of the signs.

Writing Class Week 9

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This week, I will introduce a couple of podcasts which can help my ESL students learn English.

Podcasts for ESL Students

The Memory Palace is a story telling podcast. The stories are well written so they podcasts can help student appreciate the art of story telling, the beauty of descriptive text and the art of completing a story with tidy conclusion. Great for short trips on the bus or subway, the stories are usually about 5 minutes long.

Wiretap is a 25 minute podcast from Canada. It’s a humor program with stories that are sometimes insightful and

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Writing Class Week 7

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This is the last class of week 7. Today let’s do this: a few writing projects that might be useful 1) in a classroom with beginner writers or 2) as sponge activities.

Write: Short Sentences

This is a quick writing warm up activity.

  1. Sentence one must appeal to the senses.
  2. Sentence two must use three adjectives.
  3. Sentence three must start with an adverb.
  4. Sentence four must contain a connective (words that shows a shift in time, a combination a or change).
  5. Sentence five must use exactly three words.
  6. Sentence six must be a question.
  7. This must make a story with a start and finish 

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