Short ESL Writing Assignment

Here is a short and effective ESL writing exercise. It helps students learn to develop an acute awareness of the vocabulary choices they make while writing. I found exercise on a website called The English Teacher.

ESL WRITING EXERCISE

Objective: ESL students write a six sentence paragraph. They cannot repeat a word, including contractions and articles.

Rules: The paragraph must make sense and demonstrate standard principles of a well structured paragraph (i.e. topic and unity). It should not be a simple collection of unrelated sentences.

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Fall 2013 Advanced Conversation Class: Week 7

This week, the students will finish reviewing for the mid term exam. Those questions are on this question worksheet.

Here is a collection of arguments to review logical fallacies.

EVEN MORE FALLACIES

Read these arguments. Then rewrite the argument using the simplified sentence and identify the fallacy.

1 If I make an exception for you then I have to make an exception for everyone.

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ESL Students and Writing Style

I am more and more dissatisfied with the focus and intent of so many ESL writing books.

They look the same and tend to focus on the same limited, mundane skills: thesis sentence and paragraph structure. I know those things are important but I also know that they diminish student interest in writing as a craft. As a mode of personal expression. Good ESL writing and teaching shouldn’t be an exercise in rote memorization.

On that theme, I am interested

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