08-27-2008, 11:59 PM
Many young learners are required to write Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links. in English. While most of these students also write essays for other courses in their native language, they often feel hesitant when writing essays in English. 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.
Aim: Learning basic essay structure for young learners to use for text analysis
Activity: Overview of basic essay structure presentation with students working together to develop an essay outline
Level: Young Learners - upper intermediate
Outline:
* Choose a short story that your class is very familiar with, and about which they will surely have strong opinions.
* In a brainstorming session, ask students the following questions (you may want to have the students work on these questions in small groups and then review their answers as a class):
o Who are the main characters of the story?
o What are the main events of the story?
o What roles do the main characters play in the main events of the story?
o Is there a moral to the story? If yes, what do you think it is?
o What did you learn from the story?
* Make a list of the most commonly held opinions and answers relating to the story.
* Give students the short outline to writing an essay. Have them read through the outline and answer any questions they may have.
* Ask students to break up into small groups and, using the information from the brainstorming session, fill in the outline questionnaire.
* Circulate around the class helping the groups come up with appropriate answers to the outline.
* Make sure that each student has a copy of the work they produce as this outline will be used as the base of an essay in a future lesson.
Aim: Learning basic essay structure for young learners to use for text analysis
Activity: Overview of basic essay structure presentation with students working together to develop an essay outline
Level: Young Learners - upper intermediate
Outline:
* Choose a short story that your class is very familiar with, and about which they will surely have strong opinions.
* In a brainstorming session, ask students the following questions (you may want to have the students work on these questions in small groups and then review their answers as a class):
o Who are the main characters of the story?
o What are the main events of the story?
o What roles do the main characters play in the main events of the story?
o Is there a moral to the story? If yes, what do you think it is?
o What did you learn from the story?
* Make a list of the most commonly held opinions and answers relating to the story.
* Give students the short outline to writing an essay. Have them read through the outline and answer any questions they may have.
* Ask students to break up into small groups and, using the information from the brainstorming session, fill in the outline questionnaire.
* Circulate around the class helping the groups come up with appropriate answers to the outline.
* Make sure that each student has a copy of the work they produce as this outline will be used as the base of an essay in a future lesson.