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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.

ESL Intermediate Conversation – Week 4

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Here are some activities, lessons and worksheets the students need to hep them learn English this week.

Reading Puzzle

This ESL problem solving worksheet has a thinking puzzle. Read the question. Work with a partner to understand the problems and answer the questions.

This video helps ESL students review and improve their vocabulary skills. It uses the idea of symmetry.  That is, two things that seem to go together very well.

Quick review. Let’s check the answers for this worksheet.

This vocabulary worksheet helps students remember and practice phrasal verbs.

ESL Intermediate Conversation – Week 3

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This is week three of the conversation class. Here are some worksheets and activities for this week.

ESL CONVERSATION ACTIVITIES

  1. A worksheet to improve vocabulary with compounds words. (no need to print this worksheet)
  2. Quick questions to practice specific sentence patterns.
  3. A simple worksheet with prepositions. Match the adjective and preposition. Move through the maze. then use each pair to make a question for your partner. (no need to print)
  4. 4 Quick pair work exercise to practice final sounds.

 

Week 2 ESL Writing Class

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This week, the ESL writing class has several specific composition objectives.

  1. Learn the six parts of good writing. They are called Six Writing Traits.
  2. Practice rewriting a short passage with a better description and better voice.
  3. Write a short story with a great description and a strong voice.
  4. Write a story that shows us an emotion but does not tell us the emotion. 

SIX WRITING TRAITS

IDEA: a clear message. Good writing shows, it does not tell. Include bits of information often forgotten. Stimulating, interesting, surprising content.

ORGANISATION: The structure of the writing. Is it compare and contrast, point by point analysis, chronological? There is a beginning and an end.

VOICE: We can see there is a person writing to us, not a template. There is feeling, humor, personality.

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