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This lesson helps ESL students learn English writing and critical thinking skills by understanding and using analogies. The content is designed mostly for a writing class, but the material would work well in a high intermediate+ ESL conversation class.
Knowing how to write a summary is one of the most important skills an ESL student can learn in English class. Writing a summary well means students are able to understand the text, find the main idea and filter out the unnecessary information. Summary writing involves many critical thinking skills like analyzing, evaluating and organizing.
This online lesson helps ESL students improve writing and thinking skills with two practice exercises.
Understanding the basic structure of an argument is essential for many kinds of writing tasks that require a degree of critical thinking. Developing that skill is the objective of this ESL writing lesson.
Helping students learn arguments through critical thinking is an important part of the ESL writing class. That’s what this exercise does. This lesson is an introduction to critical thinking. It gets students thinking about arguments, persuasion techniques, and missing information.