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Sophomore ESL Writing, Week 5

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Learn English Writing

This is week 5 of the semester. What did we do last week?

  • completed a second review of cohesion in a paragraph
  • completed a second editing exercise
  • completed third and final draft of the homeless story (hopefully)
  • start and maybe finish second draft of health and wealth (summary with a hypothesis)
  • another fluency activity (a little different because we practiced three sentence patterns)
  • started 3rd writing assignment – book/movie review
  • finish chapter 3 in the textbook

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Learn English Speaking, Basic: Week 4

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Here is an outline of the activities we will do this week to help ESL students learn English speaking skills.

This Week

  1. Chapters 2a and 2b in the textbook
  2. Speak precisely about numbers (pair work, big numbers with countable and uncountable nouns)
  3. What’s different? Describe how two pictures are different (street scene)
  4. quick vocabulary recall – say 4 (boxes A and B)
  5. Chapters 2c and 2d
  6. quick vocabulary recall – say 4 (boxes C and D)
  7. vocabulary – words with ph sounds
  8. vocabulary puzzle and word game
  9. hint puzzle – complete a crossword puzzle about verbs

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Teach English with Logic Puzzles and Word Games

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help students learn thinking with wod gamaes

Can you turn brain teasers into a powerful ESL creative writing activity? Absolutely. Logic puzzles and word games add variety to your lessons, keep motivation high, and create natural moments for ESL writing practice. With the right structure, you can turn quick puzzles into rich ESL classroom activities that build vocabulary, grammar accuracy, and clear written explanations.

In this post, you’ll see how to use logic puzzles as the backbone of an ESL writing lesson, how to turn them into creative ESL prompts, and how to add simple conditional writing practice without redesigning your whole course.

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