Here are 5 ESL writing activities that work well as warmers or fillers for high beginner+ students. Practice sentence patterns and articles, do some editing, teach English, nudge students towards writing accuracy.
ESL writing exercises
Teach English: Correlation and Causation
Teach English Writing Concepts
This lesson helps ESL students improve the quality of their writing, speaking and thinking by understanding the differences between correlation and causation.
Learning these vital concepts helps students write logical stories and essays by avoiding post hoc fallacies. It also helps them develop critical thinking skills and an ability to express complex ideas in writing and conversation classes.
Developing an ability to identity and evaluate cause and effect relationships is not easy for students, especially those coming from an education system that emphasizes rote memorization. Finding causality requires a degree of imagination and a willingness to inquire, to dare and explore ideas.
In that sense, imagination fosters understanding.
Lesson Purpose
By the end of this lesson, ESL students will:
- define correlation and causation
- explain the differences between the two concepts
- demonstrate that knowledge in practice exercises
- apply that knowledge in a writing assignment
Both Sides Now – A Painting with Words
This writing exercise looks at the use of words in creating style, descriptions, and voice.
The objective of this lesson is to develop your awareness of how words can communicate complex ideas, moving stories and persuasive arguments and through that awareness find some inspiration and perhaps courage to extend your writing skills.
Sometimes there is much to learn about writing from the
ESL Writing and Listening Exercises
This exercise involves some study of a written passage. Here we are most interested in looking at a writing style that develops progression. The text for this exercise is a story which was written by someone who saw a beautiful woman on the subway but did not have an opportunity to approach her.
Part 1: Jigsaw
The story is divided into eight sections. Each person reads their small numbered section. Take time to understand unknown words. Appreciate what might be happening.
Part 2: Combine
In order, each person reads their section. We put the