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Teaching ESL students how to write English sentences with parallel structure can improve sentence clarity, style and impact not to mention good grammar. As the level of writing progresses, ESL students may find that sentences with parallel structure can serve many purposes, such as a thesis sentence in an essay or the concluding sentence of a paragraph.
Explaining the long list of rules about articles to English students is easy but boring. Using them correctly … well, that takes time, practice and resources. ESL students need frequent practice over an extend period of time to learn how to use articles in written and spoken form.
Teaches ESL students a specific kind of sentence that works well in all kinds of writing. It looks like a grammar lesson, but really this lesson shows ESL students how to improve their English writing style.
An appositive is a noun, or noun phrase, that gives the reader extra information about a nearby noun. An appositive resembles a relative clause – but there are no words like ‘which, who or that’ at the beginning of the clause.
For example: Benny, my first dog, loved to chase birds. (The appositive is my first dog.)
Are squares A and B the same colour?
This optical illusion is a good symbol for this English writing lesson. Sometimes, we have to learn to see what is not obvious through critical thinking.
This English writing exercise helps ESL students learn and practice multiple skills including comparisons, contrasts, analysis and abstractions.
Students will watch a short soft drink commercial which describes aspects of life in two generations and then complete a comparative analysis.