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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.
ESL students can improve the quality of writing by learning to write two kinds of sentences well: compound and complex sentences.
In this lesson, students learn to write with an exercise called sentence combining.
Most ESL students learning to write an English passage have a hard time understanding the purpose of a thesis statement.
Here’s a simple approach: one thesis sentence pattern suitable for intermediate+ level students.
The other day, I asked my ESL students to read a newspaper story and write a summary.
Their writing was terrible. The grammar was okay, but the paragraph structure was poor. So, I developed a mini lesson to help students understand the purpose and structure of a paragraph.