critical thinking

Teaching English

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Teach English and thinking skills at the same time with lessons and ebook from eslwriting.org.

Teaching English & Thinking

Teaching English just got a little easier with three ebooks from ESL Publications. These low-prep, high-interest logic puzzles, word games and trivia challenges help ESL students learn vocabulary and general knowledge while improving listening, speaking and critical thinking skills at the same time.

1.  160 Logic Puzzles and Word Games

Every good teacher has a stable of back pocket activities to fill unexpected gaps. They are called sponge activities. These 30 worksheets with 160 logic puzzles and word games are awesome sponge activities – time savers, not time fillers – because they frame language learning as a puzzle, challenge.

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Language and Logic

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This is a short course that helps ESL students learn the way the English language can be manipulated to persuade people.  In this class you will learn just a few sentence patterns. But, they are important because they contain power.

The power is this: they create the illusion that an argument is correct and therefore you should believe the speaker.

Seeing and understanding these sentence patterns is part of critical thinking. These sentences are a kind of tool to help you think for yourself.

I hope you enjoy this class.

Critical Thinking Lessons

  • 1: Arguments
  • 2: Fallacies of Relevance
  • 3: Fallacies of Insufficient Evidence
  • 4: Analogies and Review
  • 5: Case Study
  • 6: Critical Thinking Test

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City Hall CT 1

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This Friday we will start the first of a few lessons to improve your critical thinking.

Conversation and Critical Thinking Lessons

  • Week 1: Arguments
  • Week 2: Fallacies of Relevance
  • Week 3: Fallacies of Insufficient Evidence
  • Week 4: Analogies and Review
  • Week 5: Case Study
  • Week 6: Critical Thinking Test 

This Week’s Lessons

Today we begin a series of lessons that will help you think and speak more clearly, logically and precisely.

This is the beginning of our lesson on critical thinking.

  1. The first step in that learning is to understand arguments.
  2. The second step for today is to understand the difference between facts and inferences.

Inference and Facts

Here is a quick exercise to understand inferences. Look at this photo.

Read these statements and mark, true, false or can’t answer.

  1. This is graduation day for the Thomas family.
  2. The father is proud of his son.
  3. The sister looks up to her brother.
  4. This is a prosperous family.
  5. The son has just graduated from law school.