A panoply of teaching resources.
The quiz is coming next week and there is a mid term exam in three weeks. Let’s begin the review process by summarizing the main things we have studied so far.
Back to school and another week of building writing skills.
This week it’s a mix of different ideas, lessons and activities to improve word choice. Among the six writing traits we have so far looked at organisation, voice and sentence fluency (choppy sentences). This week let’s focus on choosing great words.
We did not have enough time for this activity last week. So let’s try again.
Some students have a hard time writing a paragraph with enough details to give the reader a clear picture of what they are talking about. Adding a few details can really improve your writing.
Here is an example. Read the paragraph. It is a simple description of a man and his actions. You can see the main parts of the story are there. But there are few details.
A man walked into the room and saw that there was a party going on. He glanced across the crowd, and as soon as he saw that she was there, he turned around and walked out. He didn’t even stop to put on his coat on the way to the front door, but walked out into the snow. The next day, he never answered his phone.
It’s another week to learn and improve English paragraph writing skills. Thank god, if there is one, that is. Some of the writing skills you will learn and practice to help you write with better style include: tighter sentences, fewer words, no running, more descriptions, more sentence variety.
Let’s begin.
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 writing. Some sentences have too many words. Your task is to edit sentences so the main idea stays but useless words go out. Example:
Here are some activities, lessons and worksheets the students need to hep them learn English this week.
This ESL problem solving worksheet has a thinking puzzle. Read the question. Work with a partner to understand the problems and answer the questions.
This video helps ESL students review and improve their vocabulary skills. It uses the idea of symmetry. That is, two things that seem to go together very well.
Quick review. Let’s check the answers for this worksheet.
This vocabulary worksheet helps students remember and practice phrasal verbs.