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English Writing Lessons: Week 12

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Last week, our ESL writing class focused on summary writing. We also did an exercise where the students had to combine two different summaries into one story.

COMPARISON WRITING

The purpose of this exercise was to find a common theme between the two video stories. It was an exercise to describe how two things are the same. In the class I never used the word COMPARE. I wanted you to figure that out for yourself. Most of you did that very well.

Most students found at least one common theme, which might be related to freedom, death, challenge. One person thought the theme was reaching, another

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ESL Writing – Country Comparison

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This ESL writing lesson will help English students learn and develop their business writing skills.

In this writing assignment, the students will learn how to read statistical data and write a comparison of two countries. The hard part of this work is to decide how to compare and contrast the data.

Business Writing Assignment

There are two writing tasks.

First, write a comparison of two countries in a letter format. You will probably want to use at least two paragraphs for this writing task.

Second, write a comparison using an email format. Think carefully about how you will make the comparison and how to present the information.

Here is the link for the statistical data for Korea and Australia. These data come from the OECD: OECD-country-data.

Good luck.