Teach English Writing: Data Analysis
Can your ESL students look at a data set and write a meaningful summary and analysis? It’s not easy. Here’s a collection of ESL teaching materials to help students learn English by writing a summary and analysis.
critical thinking
Sophomore English Writing: Week 11
Online English Writing
Review
Last week:
- learned about analogies (metaphors and similes)
- rewrote 2nd or 3rd draft of Syria video summary
- started analysis of dog adoption advertisement #2
- started assignment #3: analyze the analogy and argument in a story (Life is …)
- started assignment #4: analyze the analogy and argument in a poem (and movie clip)
Teach English: Writing Arguments
Teach English Writing: How to Write an Argument
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.
Teach English Writing: Critical Thinking
English Writing Activities to Learn Critical Thinking
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.