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Articles are indeed confusing for ESL students learning how to write English stories, essays and reports.
Knowing how to write a sentence with the correct article is a tough job for ESL students. There are so many rules and the rules are confusing.
Often, regular, short practice exercises are a good way to help students learn this important writing task.
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Here is an interview with an author who also happens to teach writing at a university in New York. He also wrote a book about his perspectives on teaching writing .Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing.
Last class, the ESL students reviewed nominalization as a paraphrase writing skill. This ESL writing worksheet has suggested answers for the review question questions. You will also find suggested answers for the synonym questions.
Control is an important skill when learning to write with style. These two short writing exercises help English students learn how to control their writing with guided practice.
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.
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.