Last week, my students wrote a paragraph. The purpose of that writing assignment was to read a proverb and express an opinion (agree or disagree) based on some personal experience.
Most students did a great job. Here are a
ESL Conversation Video Lessons
These videos can help ESL students improve English speaking skills with jigsaw class activity.
Activity Format
- Pair off students.
- A watches first video while B stands outside the classroom.
- B returns.
- A describes the pilot, setting and characters with as much detail as possible.
- B asks questions.
English Writing Lessons: Week 9
FRIDAY’S WRITING CLASS
Let’s take a minute to summarize some of the main writing tasks we have finished so far in our class. We have reviewed and practiced:
- sentences with THAT/WHICH and appositives (see below);
- one paragraph writing style (thesis sentence, three different kinds of supporting sentences and conclusion);
- many editing exercises;
- run on and choppy sentences;
- the difference between SO and BECAUSE;
- the difference between LIKE and LOOK LIKE;
- some summary writing (we need more practice here);
- some basic grammar items like apostrophes and articles;
Week 8: ESL Writing Lessons
ESL WRITING LESSONS
Here is a review worksheet to help my ESL students learn and improve their English writing. The worksheet has exercises to practice error correction and editing, choppy sentences and run on sentences. It also has writing prompts for paragraph