English Writing Skills - Letters, Resumes and Writing Style
English writing skills including formal and informal style, resumes, cover letters, and other business documents, essays and free lesson plans.
Learn English on Twitter
Introduction to a new English writing practice service using Twitter provided by Kenneth Beare.
Introduction to a new English writing practice service using Twitter provided by Kenneth Beare.
How to Write a Resume
Writing a Resume - curriculum vitae or CV - in English can be quite different than in your native tongue. This "how to" helps you develop a standard English resume.
Writing a Resume - curriculum vitae or CV - in English can be quite different than in your native tongue. This "how to" helps you develop a standard English resume.
How to Write an Essay
A simple essay follows the same basic structure for most essay writing.
A simple essay follows the same basic structure for most essay writing.
Teaching Writing: Strategies
A focus on effective strategies for teaching writing to the ESL learner.
A focus on effective strategies for teaching writing to the ESL learner.
English, baby! - Find Friends
Find friends from around the world to practice your English. You can check out their profiles, read their blogs, and look at their photos, as well as get in touch and exchange ideas.
Find friends from around the world to practice your English. You can check out their profiles, read their blogs, and look at their photos, as well as get in touch and exchange ideas.
Business Letter Writing Lesson Plan
An example of an effective lesson plan employing all four language skills while focusing on business letter production skills.
An example of an effective lesson plan employing all four language skills while focusing on business letter production skills.
Cover Letter - Successful Job Application Letters
The cover letter should always be included when sending your resume or CV for a possible job interview. Here is an outline to writing a successful cover letter. Included are examples of well-writen cover letters and useful language formulas.
The cover letter should always be included when sending your resume or CV for a possible job interview. Here is an outline to writing a successful cover letter. Included are examples of well-writen cover letters and useful language formulas.
Comparing Ideas
These sentence connectors are used to make comparisons between ideas in an elegant manner. The use of these connectors will add sophistication to your writing style.
These sentence connectors are used to make comparisons between ideas in an elegant manner. The use of these connectors will add sophistication to your writing style.
Introduction to Poetic Devices
Understanding poetry in any language is challenging, here is basic introduction to poetic devices used in poetry written in English (as well as other languages).
Understanding poetry in any language is challenging, here is basic introduction to poetic devices used in poetry written in English (as well as other languages).
Lesson: Error Correction
Help students help themselves by using error shorthand to help them learn to correct their own mistakes.
Help students help themselves by using error shorthand to help them learn to correct their own mistakes.
Spelling Help: American - British
How to recognize (recognise?) the most common spelling differences between American and British English.
How to recognize (recognise?) the most common spelling differences between American and British English.
Lesson: Writing Descriptive Paragraphs
Intermediate to upper-intermediate lesson aimed at helping students develop a strategy for writing concise sentences leading to well-formed descriptive paragraphs.
Intermediate to upper-intermediate lesson aimed at helping students develop a strategy for writing concise sentences leading to well-formed descriptive paragraphs.
Reports: Using a Word Processing Program in Class
This lesson plan focuses on developing a class writing project over a period of time and is therefore designed as a general outline to such a project.
This lesson plan focuses on developing a class writing project over a period of time and is therefore designed as a general outline to such a project.
Young Learner's Writing Workshop 1 - Basic Essay Writing Style
This series of four lessons is designed to help students become familiar with writing an essay in English. The first lesson is designed to give students an overview of basic essay writing style. The final three lessons focus on developing skills that are used when analyzing texts as the basis of their essays.
This series of four lessons is designed to help students become familiar with writing an essay in English. The first lesson is designed to give students an overview of basic essay writing style. The final three lessons focus on developing skills that are used when analyzing texts as the basis of their essays.
Getting Ideas Organized - Young Learner's Writing
This final lesson in this series helps students put their observations into written form by asking them to fill out a questionnaire. Students can then take these replies and incorporate them into their final essay.
This final lesson in this series helps students put their observations into written form by asking them to fill out a questionnaire. Students can then take these replies and incorporate them into their final essay.
Interesting Writing: Descriptive Verb usage
One of the most important steps in improving writing skills is expanding the use of more descriptive language when describing actions. This lesson focuses on getting students to use more descriptive verbs in place of common, general meaning verbs.
One of the most important steps in improving writing skills is expanding the use of more descriptive language when describing actions. This lesson focuses on getting students to use more descriptive verbs in place of common, general meaning verbs.
Using the Internet to teach English for Special Purposes (ESP)
One of the problems that faces many English as Second Language (read ESP, ESL, EFL, TEFL, TESOL, TOEFL etc.) teachers is that students expect the teacher to be incredibly knowledgeable about everything! By using the methods in the example lesson - actually you will probably need at least two lessons - you can give your students "real world" English for their specific ESP needs.
One of the problems that faces many English as Second Language (read ESP, ESL, EFL, TEFL, TESOL, TOEFL etc.) teachers is that students expect the teacher to be incredibly knowledgeable about everything! By using the methods in the example lesson - actually you will probably need at least two lessons - you can give your students "real world" English for their specific ESP needs.
Newspaper Reading and Writing
This lesson focuses on calling students' attention to this type of writing style on a deeper, grammatical level. It ends with students writing up their own short articles with a follow-up listening comprehension opportunity.
This lesson focuses on calling students' attention to this type of writing style on a deeper, grammatical level. It ends with students writing up their own short articles with a follow-up listening comprehension opportunity.
Beginning Writing - Short Writing Assignments
Ready to go short writing assignments for beginning level English learners. Toics include studies, hobbies, travel, likes and dislikes, application forms, brief job descriptions, recipes, etc.
Ready to go short writing assignments for beginning level English learners. Toics include studies, hobbies, travel, likes and dislikes, application forms, brief job descriptions, recipes, etc.
Business English Reference
Top business English books for English as special purposes learners and teachers. These books can help you improve your English for specific business situations.
Top business English books for English as special purposes learners and teachers. These books can help you improve your English for specific business situations.