Learn English Writing, Basic Class: Week 11

umbrella rain

LEARN ENGLISH WRITING

Here are the writing exercises for this week.

  1. re-write the third draft of the Seconds story
  2. re-write the control story – use good sentences to show change
  3. complete editing exercises and articles practice questions to improve basic writing skills – this is homework
  4. check answers for chapter 5 and 6 in the textbook
  5. understand the difference between during and while
  6. close and far away words
  7. quiz review

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Learn English Writing, Basic Class: Week 10

movement and control

 

LEARN ENGLISH WRITING

Here are the writing exercises for this week.

  1. write the second draft of the reflective story about Seconds
  2. complete editing exercises to improve basic writing skills
  3. complete editing for articles exercise – it’s good practice
  4. an exercise to practice writing control – movement and progress
  5. check answers for chapter 5 in the textbook

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Learn English Writing – Progress and Movement

waiting-moving

PURPOSE OF WRITING ACTIVITY

  • learn English writing sentences about change

This activity helps students learn English writing sentences about change, to control progress, movement or action in a paragraph or short story. It also helps students improve their ability to describe things with accuracy and style.

Students will write a story with four different people. Each person does something different, but these actions must evolve or progress. They become bigger, better, worse, happier, stronger, scarier, or deadlier. The student chooses the kind of change that happens.

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Learn English Writing, Basic Class: Week 9

school-test

Last week the ESL students had a mid-term exam. Let’s review some of the questions and answers to help them learn English writing.

Part 1. Read the paragraph. The paragraph has 10 mistakes. Circle the mistakes then rewrite the paragraph.

my sisters home on Jefferson Street is terrably noisey every five minutes or so a monster jet takes off from the nearby

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