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Exercises, activities and worksheets to help teachers teach English to ESL students.
A short time ago, an ESL student asked me an interesting question. She asked, “How can I get creative ideas?”
This writing lesson is one answer to that question. This ESL writing activity helps English students learn a process to produce creative ideas.
This is a three-part writing exercise. By the end of this writing activity, you should have one or two well written
The ESL students have been learning and practicing writing for about eight weeks. Let’s take a look at the things we have studied so far.
The ESL students completed a one paragraph writing assignment. It was a creative writing exercise. That exercise was explained here. I am really proud of the students.
They are making great progress in paragraph development, word choice and use of clear topic sentences.
The students did a great job with the their English writing. Here are a few sample sentences.
This is a different writing lesson. It does not teach how to write a paragraph. Instead, this ESL writing lesson teaches English students a framework to analyze an idea.
I have used this framework in an advanced English conversation class. Now I am taking the same learning model and using it in a composition class.
The writing activity has four parts.
Below is the framework which students follow when discussing answers and writing their compositions.