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Appositives? Huh? Sounds hard, but it isn’t.
Appositives can be a single word or many words (a phrase). An appositive looks like a relative clause but there are no words like ‘which, who or that’ at the beginning of the clause.
Here are three examples; the appositives are in red.
The appositive can go at the front of the sentence. Like this:
It’s a short week of English classes, thanks to the long holiday weekend. Here are a few extensive writing activities to help ESL students improve their English composition skills.
Write one haiku.
Japanese poetry. Typically (but not always) 17 syllables written in three lines. Divided into 5-7-5.
This week, I will introduce a couple of podcasts which can help my ESL students learn English.
The Memory Palace is a story telling podcast. The stories are well written so they podcasts can help student appreciate the art of story telling, the beauty of descriptive text and the art of completing a story with tidy conclusion. Great for short trips on the bus or subway, the stories are usually about 5 minutes long.
Wiretap is a 25 minute podcast from Canada. It’s a humor program with stories that are sometimes insightful and
This is the last class of week 7. Today let’s do this: a few writing projects that might be useful 1) in a classroom with beginner writers or 2) as sponge activities.
This is a quick writing warm up activity.