Writing Class

Rob Whyte ESL writing activities, lessons and composition worksheets that increase vocabulary and teach English students how to write sentences and paragraphs.

ESL Writing Lesson Review

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This ESL writing lesson reviews the topics we have studied during the semester. These writing questions will test your English writing skills.

To prepare for the final exam you should be able to write long, proper answers for each question.

Remember, spelling, grammar and punctuation are important for the final writing test.

ESL Writing Questions

You can download the practice review questions here: english-writing-skills-exam-review.

For today’s writing lesson, here are three more exercises to practice and improve your editing skills:esl-editing-paragraphs-worksheet.

ESL Writing – Guided Lesson

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This ESL writing lesson blends guided writing skills and creativity. Guided writing is a process that helps ESL students learn one or two writing skills in each lesson.

Writing Assignment

Download the lesson here: guided-writing-lesson.

Students read the paragraph. You have two tasks.

First, change the subject of the story from one spider to the plural form – spiders.

Second write a new paragraph to finish the story.

The story and writing lesson were adapted from an idea by ISP Nation in “Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing.”

ESL Writing – Country Comparison

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This ESL writing lesson will help English students learn and develop their business writing skills.

In this writing assignment, the students will learn how to read statistical data and write a comparison of two countries. The hard part of this work is to decide how to compare and contrast the data.

Business Writing Assignment

There are two writing tasks.

First, write a comparison of two countries in a letter format. You will probably want to use at least two paragraphs for this writing task.

Second, write a comparison using an email format. Think carefully about how you will make the comparison and how to present the information.

Here is the link for the statistical data for Korea and Australia. These data come from the OECD: OECD-country-data.

Good luck.

ESL Writing – Email Lesson Notes

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Today’s English lesson and homework is about writing an email. Specifically, the lesson is learning the rules to write a proper business email with good etiquette.

Email Writing Lesson

As promised, here are the presentation notes:email-lesson. Maybe these will help you complete your email writing assignment.

Remember the writing assignment:

  • write an English mail to a local government office: city, county or province;
  • send your email to the local tourism department (if there is one);
  • send an email to the government office and c.c. my email account as well
  • in the email, explain why you are writing;
  • ask four questions;
  • use the 7 rules for email writing which we discussed in class;
  • when you receive an answer from the government office, forward that email to my email address.

You will want to write full and proper questions asking about:

  • festivals in July and August
  • best places to visit
  • where to get maps and brochures
  • locations of tourist booths with English speaking staff

Good luck.