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English Writing Lessons: Week 12

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Last week, our ESL writing class focused on summary writing. We also did an exercise where the students had to combine two different summaries into one story.

COMPARISON WRITING

The purpose of this exercise was to find a common theme between the two video stories. It was an exercise to describe how two things are the same. In the class I never used the word COMPARE. I wanted you to figure that out for yourself. Most of you did that very well.

Most students found at least one common theme, which might be related to freedom, death, challenge. One person thought the theme was reaching, another

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English Lessons: ESL Conversation Week 12

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This is week 12 of the university semester. The festival is over, so now it’s time to hit the books for a few week before the final exams. These lessons and activities will help my ESL students learn English, improve vocabulary skills and use key phrases in conversations.

UNDERSTAND LIKE AND LOOK LIKE

LOOK LIKE and LIKE are words and phrases that are easy to confuse. They are also useful when you want to express ideas in a conversation. Let’s do a quick review.

CHARACTER

What is your best friend like?

  1. She is kind and talkative.
  2. She is like a tiger, strong and

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English Writing Lessons: Week 11

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This week my ESL students will continue to practice writing summaries. Last week, the students listened to a Steve Jobs video and then wrote a summary. They also wrote a summary about a short story about snow.

ESL Writing Lesson

Here is the writing assignment.

  1. Watch this video.
  2. Write a one paragraph summary about the story.

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