English Writing Lessons: Week 12

Last week, our ESL writing class focused on summary writing. We also did an exercise where the students had to combine two different summaries into one story.

COMPARISON WRITING

The purpose of this exercise was to find a common theme between the two video stories. It was an exercise to describe how two things are the same. In the class I never used the word COMPARE. I wanted you to figure that out for yourself. Most of you did that very well.

Most students found at least one common theme, which might be related to freedom, death, challenge. One person thought the theme was reaching, another

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