Writing Class

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

Do You Know 5

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Writing class students, here is your homework. Read the questions and answer the questions.

ESL Writing Worksheet

Why do this? Good writing requires fluency with words (good vocabulary and quick recall) and an understanding of word sounds and word parts.

Download the writing worksheet here: esl-fluency-activity-5.

ESL Writing Lesson – Mind Mapping

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The purpose of this ESL writing lesson is to give students an opportunity to work in groups and use the three elements of paragraph style which we studied in class: strong opening sentence, logical organization and unity.

This writing lesson uses two pieces of media: a mind map to encourage detail thinking and a video for inspiration.

Cinderella Mind Map

Here is a mind map of the fairy tale Cinderella. Our writing class will be creating a mind map as a tool to help students write a creative story.

ESL Video Lesson

The next step in the writing lesson is to watch a video. Nuit Blanche is a short dramatic story about a man and woman who meet on the street. In this writing lesson, students will use this video as the basis for their creative story.

Mind map image by limevelyn.

ESL Writing Lessons – Categories

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In this ESL writing lesson, students will practice grouping words into one category. This English writing activity has two parts.

  • First, read the worksheet and add one word to each group. The new word must be part of the same category.
  • Second, complete the second page by writing the name of the category for each group of words.

Writing Skills

Every paragraph has one idea, which we describe in the topic sentence. By knowing how many small things can be grouped into one category, ESL students will be able to imagine and write good topic sentences and paragraphs that show unity.

Click here to download the ESL lesson writing worksheets.

ESL Writing Lesson – Country Profile

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This ESL writing worksheet teaches English students how to write a profile of one country. There are three important tasks in this writing lesson.

  1. Learn the vocabulary used to describe a country by completing the worksheet.
  2. Choose a country for your report. Go to the web and research your country.
  3. Write a one page report using the same ideas and vocabulary.

Here is the worksheet we will use for this writing lesson.

ESL Research Resources

You can save a lot of research time by going to the CIA Word Factbook website. Choose a country and then find your information.

Note: every student in the class must choose a different country.

Report Format

Your final report should be about one country. You will give me that report one week later. There are two key points for this writing assignment.

I want you to show me that you learned and understand the ideas we talked about in class about paragraph style and sentences.

  • First, the paragraphs in your report will have a good topic sentence, good organization and unity.
  • Second, you will use the writing tools which we studied in class.
  • Third, you will write the report in your words. Please do not copy and paste words and sentences from the website. This is really important. I want you to write your ideas. If you copy other people’s work, I will know. And you will get a zero.

Your grade will be based on these three report format parts.