ESL writing activities

Writing Class 2014: Week 3

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This week’s lesson plan and activities

  1. Check your understanding of the answers from the textbook. Remember: it is your job to make sure you understand the questions, answers, and vocabulary.
  2. Finish writing the rafting story (from last week).
  3. Write the dog and sausage story (from week 2 post).
  4. Write the short story that shows emotion (from week 2 post).
  5. Rewrite the howl story (wolf boy story based on the video).
  6. Quick review of Six Writing Traits.

This week

It’s another week to learn and improve English paragraph writing skills.

Writing skills to learn and practice this week:

  1. tighter sentences
  2. fewer words
  3. choppy sentences
  4. more descriptions
  5. more sentence variety.

Writing Activity 1: Write Less to Say More

This is a reflective writing activity. It’s importance is to help student become conscious of the act of writing. In this case, to develop an awareness of wordy

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Writing Class Week 7

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This week the class will learn new English writing skills and review material. These activities will help the students learn the English tools they need for the mid term exam. The exam questions are below; print the exam questions from this doc.

ESL Writing Activity #1

This is an activity which we did not have time for last week. This writing activity will be on the mid term exam.

Choose two things which might not normally be compared. Find three ways to describe how they are similar. Write a full paragraph with a topic sentence, proof and a conclusion. 

Here is an example by a middle school student, about

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Writing Class Week 6

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Here are some writing activities and lessons for week 6 of the semester.

Writing Activity 1: Fix the Parallel Structure

This is an activity which we did not finish last week. Can you edit these sentences to create a parallel structure?

  1. Mike likes to listen to rock music and reading mystery novels.
  2. While in France, my nephew spent his time studying French, working in a restaurant, and he jogged along the Seine River every morning.
  3. My home-office is filled with student reports, scrap paper and the garbage can is overflowing.
  4. Joan decided to paint her office, to add some new curtains, and that the rug needs dry cleaning.

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