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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 Week 11

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ESL Writing Lesson 1: Appositives

Appositives? Huh? Sounds hard, but it isn’t.

An appositive is a noun that describes another noun.

Appositives can be a single word or many words (a phrase). An appositive looks like a relative clause but there are no words like ‘which, who or that’ at the beginning of the clause.

Here are three examples; the appositives are in red.

The appositive can go at the front of the sentence. Like this:

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Writing Class Week 10

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It’s a short week of English classes, thanks to the long holiday weekend. Here are a few extensive writing activities to help ESL students improve their English composition skills.

ESL writing activity 1

Write one haiku.

Japanese poetry. Typically (but not always) 17 syllables written in three lines. Divided into 5-7-5.

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ESL Intermediate Conversation – Week 9

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Last week the ESL students practiced their English conversations skills during the mid term exam. Now its back to the English classroom to learn vocabulary, phrases, grammar and conversation skills.

ESL CONVERSATION WORKSHEETS

Here are some of the things we will learn and study in the conversation class.

  1. A simple grammar exercise, this ESL conversation worksheet helps students review questions and answers with TOO MUCH and TOO MANY.
  2. This reading and thinking worksheet has a few logic puzzles. Solve the problems and explain how you got the answer.
  3. This worksheet has a few public signs. Students read the signs, learn the vocabulary and explain the meaning of the signs.

Writing Class Week 9

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This week, I will introduce a couple of podcasts which can help my ESL students learn English.

Podcasts for ESL Students

The Memory Palace is a story telling podcast. The stories are well written so they podcasts can help student appreciate the art of story telling, the beauty of descriptive text and the art of completing a story with tidy conclusion. Great for short trips on the bus or subway, the stories are usually about 5 minutes long.

Wiretap is a 25 minute podcast from Canada. It’s a humor program with stories that are sometimes insightful and

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