A panoply of teaching resources.
The ESL students completed a one paragraph writing assignment. It was a creative writing exercise. That exercise was explained here. I am really proud of the students.
They are making great progress in paragraph development, word choice and use of clear topic sentences.
The students did a great job with the their English writing. Here are a few sample sentences.
This is a different writing lesson. It does not teach how to write a paragraph. Instead, this ESL writing lesson teaches English students a framework to analyze an idea.
I have used this framework in an advanced English conversation class. Now I am taking the same learning model and using it in a composition class.
The writing activity has four parts.
Below is the framework which students follow when discussing answers and writing their compositions.
This is week 10 of the fall semester. Time flies when you’re having fun, right?
Two activities below are group work projects which will be done in class.
This group speaking activity is about making comparisons. Look at the topics below. Choose one per person. If you don’t like these topics, feel free to choose another that interests you.
This week the main topic of our speaking class is food with countable and non-countable nouns. The ESL students will learn English sentences that use how much, how many, there is a lot, there isn’t a lot. Plus other words and phrases.
These two ESL conversation worksheets help students learn English questions and answers with HOW MUCH and HOW MANY.
The first worksheet asks students to make past