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Are writing tests hard for ESL students? Test your writing skills with this quiz.
Here is a quiz which my English students completed in our university ESL writing class.
The writing quiz has three types of questions to test their knowledge of the material we studied during the lessons and ability to:
This ESL writing lesson blends guided writing skills and creativity. Guided writing is a process that helps ESL students learn one or two writing skills in each lesson.
Download the lesson here: guided-writing-lesson.
Students read the paragraph. You have two tasks.
First, change the subject of the story from one spider to the plural form – spiders.
Second write a new paragraph to finish the story.
The story and writing lesson were adapted from an idea by ISP Nation in “Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing.”
Here is a quick writing assignment.
The purpose of this 5 minute lesson is to active the students’ memory of common words, review countable and non-countable nouns and stimulate creative thinking. Oh, one more thing. Let’s have some fun by watching a really interesting short video.
Watch the video which was produced by Bruton Strouble Studios.
In three minutes, make a list of the breakfast food and drinks you see on the table. Don’t forget to add countable nouns when needed.
My list has 16 different kinds of food and drink. How many can you get?
This ESL writing lesson will help English students learn and develop their business writing skills.
In this writing assignment, the students will learn how to read statistical data and write a comparison of two countries. The hard part of this work is to decide how to compare and contrast the data.
There are two writing tasks.
First, write a comparison of two countries in a letter format. You will probably want to use at least two paragraphs for this writing task.
Second, write a comparison using an email format. Think carefully about how you will make the comparison and how to present the information.
Here is the link for the statistical data for Korea and Australia. These data come from the OECD: OECD-country-data.
Good luck.