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Exercises, activities and worksheets to help teachers teach English to ESL students.

ESL English Writing Lessons: Week 14

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It’s the last week of the semester. Let’s wrap up a few lessons and details.

Writing Review

Last week, the students complete a rewriting exercise. The task was to take a first draft, which did not have enough details, and add extra information. That writing task is here. Here is a summary f my comments:

  1. Many students forgot to write paragraphs – please indent and add spacing.
  2. Most students simple copied words from the help box but did not try to add new information, or correct the grammar mistakes – please remember, writing is thinking.
  3. Almost everybody forget to add

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ESL English Writing Lessons: Week 13 (part 2)

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In this lesson my ESL students will learn a few specific English writing skills.

REWRITE A PASSAGE

In this exercise, my ESL students will read a short story. The story does not have enough information. It is incomplete. This is typical of many student writers. The basic material is there but it needs more examples and details to be a really good  piece of writing.

Here is what we will do.

  1. Read the short story.
  2. Read the prewriting notes.

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ESL English Writing Lessons: Week 12 (part 2)

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Here is another lesson to help ESL students learn English writing. This lesson continues from the last.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST PARAGRAPHS

Compare means you talk about things that are similar. Contrast means find the differences.

In this writing assignment, you will write a compare and contrast message. There are two ways to compare things in paragraphs.

  1. block method
  2. point by point

In the block method, you write about things that are the same and use

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