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Intermediate Writing Lesson Plans for English Learners
Free English writing lesson plans for beginning, intermediate and advanced level of English learning in ESL EFL classes as well as business English classes. Each lesson provides an introduction, step by step teaching guidelines and printable student worksheets.
Improve Storytelling with Vocal Verbs and Adverbs
This ESL lesson plan focuses on helping students improve their writing skills by focusing on relating stories with a wide variety of vocal verbs and adverbs instead of 'he said or she said'.
Writing About Cities
This lesson focuses on learning how to write descriptions about your favorite cities. The exercise provides tips to remember when writing about your favorite cities.
Persuasive Arguments For and Against
This lesson focuses on learning how to write arguments for and against something. The exercise provides tips to remember when writing persuasive arguments.
Writing Lesson - Non Defining Clauses
This intermediate level lesson focuses on introducing and / or reviewing defining and non-defining relative clauses. Exercises include a recognition and punctuation drill as well as a text expansion exercise.
Creating a Multimedia Presentation as an ESL Project
In depth feature on how to create a multimedia presentation as an ESL project for English learning classes.
How to Make a Multimedia Presentation in Your English Class
In depth feature on how to create a multimedia presentation as an ESL project for English learning classes.
Benefits of Multimedia ESL Projects
Descriptions of the benefits that can be derived by creating a longer multimedia project in ESL EFL classes.
Teaching ESL - Writing
Top choices of books for teaching English writing to English as a Second or Foreign Language classes. These books can be used to develop activities, complement class exercises or give students extra writing practice at home.
Sentence Connectors - Guided Writing
This guided writing lesson is intended to help bridge the gap from simply writing sentences to developing a larger structure. During the course of the lesson students become familiar with the sentence connectors 'so' and 'because'.
Paired Conjunctions - Not only ... but also, etc.
Paired conjunctions are often used in both spoken and written English to make a point, give an explanation, or discuss alternatives. Unfortunately, not only are they difficult to use, but their structure is also rather strict!
Reports: Using a Word Processing Program in Class
This lesson plan improves speaking ability through the teamwork aspect of developing a class writing project over a period of time.
Short Writing Topics
The idea of this exercise is to get students to quickly write about a topic they choose (or you assign). These short presentations are then used in two manners; to generate spontaneous conversations on a wide range of topics, and to take a look at some common writing problems.
Process Description
This lesson helps students develop narrating skills by thinking in terms of verb 'groups' that belong together in order to describe a process.