Fall 2013 Beginner ESL Conversation: Week 11

This is week 11 of the school semester.

Food and Cooking worksheet is here.

Activity Verbs

You will need to know these verbs when talking about hobbies. Here is a list of verbs and examples.

Different Kinds of Questions

Page 51 of the book is a pair work exercise. Here you have to make many different kinds of sentences. Here are some examples.

1. What (5 W’s)

  • What kind of cards do you collect?

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Fall 2013 Advanced Conversation Class: Week 10

Last week, we started to look at analogies. Let’s finish analogies this week. We will watch a few videos that make arguments with analogies. This will show us how analogies can be used to make very strong arguments. Then we will finish the analogy worksheets.

Here is the schedule for the rest of the semester:

Week 11, November 11 – case study analysis using fallacies

Week 12, November 18 – critical thinking test

Week 13, November 25 – oral presentations and quiz #2

Week 14, December 2 – review

Week 15, December 9 – make up week

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Writing Class TTP

Last class, the ESL students reviewed nominalization as a paraphrase writing skill. This ESL writing worksheet has suggested answers for the review question questions. You will also find suggested answers for the synonym questions.

ESL WRITING SPONGE ACTIVITIES

Control is an important skill when learning to write with style. These two short writing exercises help English students learn how to control their writing with guided practice.

Writing Activity #1

  1. Sentence one must appeal to the senses.
  2. Sentence two must use three adjectives.

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