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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.

Writing Class 2014: Week 4

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Unit 2

Suggested answers for Unit 2 of the textbook are here.

This is week 4 of the ESL writing class that teaches English composition skills.

Review of Writing Activities

  1. Learned what makes good writing by looking at the Six Writing Traits.
  2. Practiced descriptive writing skills by summarizing the story about a boy (Howl) and describing your own ideas.
  3. Practiced using the articles A and THE correctly with the dog and sausage story (pictures). In this story you also practiced writing with a voice (choose the boy or dog).
  4. Practiced writing with voice and adding details by rewriting the rafting story.
  5. Practiced self correction skills by editing a few short paragraphs for spelling and punctuation (i.e. bee and bat stories).
  6. Learned some vocabulary and practiced simple sentence writing with the textbook (units 1 and 2).
  7. Practiced writing clearer sentences by removing unnecessary words (e.g. Helen is a smart and intelligent woman.)
  8. Practiced careful writing by rewriting the spider and hyena story and changing the spider to the plural form.
  9. Write sentences with parallel structure to create nice style.

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Teacher Training Writing Class: Week 3

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These English exercises help ESL students learn how to improve writing sentences and paragraphs.

THESIS SENTENCES

A thesis sentence is your main idea. It is the first sentence of a paragraph. It is important to learn how to write this sentence. When you learn how to write this sentence, your writing, speaking and thinking skills will also be better.

Here is an example.

Many Americans buy Japanese cars. (not a thesis sentence)

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