Pair Work Story Writing
Work with a partner and create a story together. Spend some time talking about your story idea. Here are the topics:
- aliens on Earth
- ghosts
- war
- monsters
- psychological fear and terror
teach English writing exercises
Quick ESL Writing Warm Up Exercises
Here are a few writing activities to help ESL students learn writing by getting their mind into the words and ideas. A creative head space, to use the parlance of the 1980s.
Writing Warm Up #1: Free Association
This is a five-minute activity to help students think about connections between words.
Explanation
- Students add a word to each blank. Each pair of side by side words must be connected in some way.
- They might be opposites, synonyms or rhymes. Any connection is okay as long as the student can explain the link in a reasonably logical way.
- Add five words between the beginning and end.
It’s a free flowing game, so it’s meant to be creative and fun.
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UP ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ SPIDER
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BLACK ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ NICE
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SMALL ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ BEST
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DRINKING ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ LIGHT
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SUNNY ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ AIRPLANE
Learn English Writing with Better Words
Write with Better Vocabulary
Writing Skills: word choice
Learning how to write is a challenge for ESL students. Learning how to improve writing style in English with better word choices often requires direct teaching of vocabulary. That’s the purpsoe of this 20-minute writing lesson.
ESL Writing Week 12
In this lesson, the ESL students will learn how to combine two English sentences into one long sentence. Before starting, there are two grammar phrases you need to know for this lesson:
- coordinating conjunctions
- subordinate conjunctions
There are many ways to combine two sentences. In this lesson you will learn and practice two ways.
Sentence Combining 1: Coordinating Conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions are small words that join two sentences, clauses, word or phrases.
When joining sentences, we don’t need to change the sentences very much.