teach English writing exercises

Writing Class Week 9

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This week, I will introduce a couple of podcasts which can help my ESL students learn English.

Podcasts for ESL Students

The Memory Palace is a story telling podcast. The stories are well written so they podcasts can help student appreciate the art of story telling, the beauty of descriptive text and the art of completing a story with tidy conclusion. Great for short trips on the bus or subway, the stories are usually about 5 minutes long.

Wiretap is a 25 minute podcast from Canada. It’s a humor program with stories that are sometimes insightful and

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Writing Class Week 7

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This is the last class of week 7. Today let’s do this: a few writing projects that might be useful 1) in a classroom with beginner writers or 2) as sponge activities.

Write: Short Sentences

This is a quick writing warm up activity.

  1. Sentence one must appeal to the senses.
  2. Sentence two must use three adjectives.
  3. Sentence three must start with an adverb.
  4. Sentence four must contain a connective (words that shows a shift in time, a combination a or change).
  5. Sentence five must use exactly three words.
  6. Sentence six must be a question.
  7. This must make a story with a start and finish 

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Learn English Summary Writing

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Practice English Writing

Writing a summary is hard because it requires two thinking skills.

The first is finding the main idea. The second is organizing information so that the main idea is explained with reasons and details while ignoring the unimportant parts.

This intermediate+ level lesson show ESL students how to write a summary using a four-step process called FACT.

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