Learn English Writing: Getting Creative With Paragraphs | eslwriting ...

For the past week, the ESL students have learned how to write English paragraphs by reading statistical data. The English students then took those separate paragraphs and created a five paragraph essay. That was hard work.

Most?students?did a great job. All of the students showed me their writing is getting?better.

Review of Student Writing

The purpose of the last ESL writing lesson was to write a five paragraph essay. But there were some specific points which I wanted the?students?to learn.

• Have a good topic sentence. This is the main idea.

Do you have a good topic sentence? Here is a test. Ask yourself this: What is my story about??If you can make a clear one sentence answer, you probably have a good topic sentence.

Linking is this: The middle party of your paragraph (or essay) explains your topic sentence. This is proof. So, your middle sentences should link (or be related) to the topic sentence.

This?writing?lesson was about?describing?change. So, we use words like more than, less than, increased, etc. But, here is the bid idea. It is important to be able to?explain?why change happens.

Some students found a way to do this. They connected food changes with other factors, like a growing?economy, greater wealth and even technology. Good job.

Student Writing Examples

1. Korean?society has changed a lot since 1969.
2. In conclusion, eating patterns in Korean have changed.
3. People?have changed?their?eating?habits.
4. The Korean diet has changed like our life style.

?Creative Paragraph Writing

In this ESL lesson, ESL students will learn English creative writing. The learning objective is write creatively while still using the basic paragraph structure. That is:

1. main idea
2. three supporting ideas ? this is your proof, explian why you think so
3. conclusion

This ESL writing lesson uses a video prompt. Here is the video.

After watching the video, write one paragraph. You might want to write a paragraph that answer?questions,?like these:

1. What is the video?s message?
2. What do you think about the mother?
3. What is?wrong?with the boy?

Howl from Natalie Bettelheim on Vimeo.

?Howl? is Natalie Bettelheim & Sharon Michaeli?s graduation film from Bezalel academy of art and design.

Director/designer: Natalie Bettelheim
Co-Director/Animator: Sharon Michaeli
Sound design & music: Yoav Brill

project blog:

http://projecthowl.blogspot.com

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