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Rob Whyte ESL speaking and writing class lessons, activities and worksheets for English students who want to learn and improve their English communication skills.

English Listening Lesson – Seconds

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Teach English Listening and Speaking

  • Focus: speaking, listening and evaluating
  • Time: 25-40 minutes
  • Level: intermediate and up

Main Idea

This video lesson helps ESL students improve English listening skills, especially for numbers. The ESL video also has a simple but powerful message for students learning English.

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ESL Writing Lesson – Make a Story

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In this ESL writing lesson, students will be asked to write a story that matches a group of pictures. For this English lesson, students will use the the double past tense sentence pattern we studied in class.

Students will also use the writing tools and grammar rules we studied in English class. These include: apostrophes, articles, prepositional phrases, conjunctions and gerunds.

Click here to download the English writing worksheet: ESL-writing-prompts.

Student Writing – Homework

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ESL students learn English writing by completing composition homework. This assignment asked my English students to write a paragraphs using the writing lessons and grammar rules we studied in class.

These English writing lessons included: articles, apostrophes, adjectives, prepositions, prepositional phrases, gerunds and conjunctions.

How to read the comments. My comments are highlighted in yellow.

  • I added a suggestion to the student’s writing. You can see that comment by putting your mouse over the yellow box. These comments have a little memo pad above the yellow box.
  • I highlighted a word or phrase because there was a spelling mistake. In these cases, there is no comment or memo icon.

Here are some more examples of student wrting:

Student Writing – Articles

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In this English writing lesson, my ESL students are going to read and edit their writing. Actually, students will edit their classmates’ writing. They will be asked to read and check the grammar, apostrophes,  articles, conjunctions, prepositional phrases and gerunds.

Here are two writing and editing worksheets for this lesson: