Academic Writing Skills for Adult ESL Students

This is a writing lesson for adult ESL students focusing on sentence and paragraph structure. It is designed for students who are intermediate level and above who need to write academic essays for IELTS or other academic purposes. Although it focuses on the requirements of the IELTS exam the strategies are applicable to any type of academic writing.

The focus of this package is on 3 keys elements of the IELTS writing Task 1

• The structure of the writing
• Language for describing trends in data – graphs, tables etc.
• Language for comparison

This package contains:

Lesson notes/an explanation of:

✅Requirements of Writing Task 1 in IELTS

✅Structure of paragraphs

✅Extensive list of vocabulary to describe trends in data

✅Language of comparison

PLUS

✅5 Activities based on the above lessons ranging from guided to progressively open-ended.

How many lessons will it take? It depends on how you use it and the level of your students. If you complete it all, in sequence doing all the writing activities and providing in class feedback, it could take around 3 x 1 hour lessons

There are many ways this package can be used:

•  As a stand-alone package -The activities progress from guided to open ended so
  can be used as a complete package.
• In sections. There are also opportunities for differentiation.
•  Online one to one or group teaching
•  In person with PowerPoint presentation
•  Homework package

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