Do you teach ESL writing? Then you're definitely in the right place. Check out the best ESL writing games and activities, along with lots of other great ideas for English writing lessons and classes. Have some fun with these ESL writing exercises that'll work for any level.
Teaching English writing doesn't have to be super difficult if you have some fun ideas for lesson plans in your back pocket. Watch the video for the top ideas for EFL/ESL writing activities.
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Timestamp
0:00 Intro
0:07 3 things
0:26 Journaling
0:49 Postcards
1:15 Dictogloss
1:45 Application form
2:17 Conclusion
Transcript for top 5 TEFL writing activities:
Hey everybody, this is Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today, I'm going to talk about my top five ESL writing activities.
The first one is three things. This is a quick warm-up activity. Just put students into pairs and each person writes down three nouns. They change papers and then the other person has to write a quick little story about the nouns. It can be quite silly or funny, serious, I don't know. It is whatever the students make it but it's a nice warm-up activity.
The next one is journaling. So I like to get my students not always doing super serious writing. Journaling is a nice way to get students to work on fluency. You can do it for homework or do it at the beginning of each writing class. The goal is just for students to write quickly without necessarily editing or filtering what they write.
The next one is postcards ([ Ссылка ]). So this is kind of a fun group writing activity if you can get your hands on some blank postcards for pretty cheap. Put students into groups and they need to come up with a place that they all went to and then they can write a postcard to their teacher or their grandma or something like that, talking about what they ate, what they did, etc. Display them around the class and have students present their postcards to the class and talk about the pretend trip that they took.
The next one is dictogloss ([ Ссылка ]). So this is an activity for higher-level students. Find a passage or write one yourself that covers the key grammar or vocabulary that you want to cover and then put students into pairs and read it out at a faster than normal pace. Students take notes and then compare what they have with their partners. Repeat the process and then students can write out their final version of what they think they heard and then they can compare what they have with the original version in the end.
The last one is an application form. When i did the CELTA, my tutor told me that writing is more than a formal academic essay and of course, it is but that's always what I thought so I'd feel overwhelmed about teaching writing to beginners. But a nice activity, kind of for high beginner or intermediate level students is to print out some application forms and then have students fill them out. It's a different set of vocabulary and it's also a very practical skill if you're teaching in an English-speaking country or to students who are planning on going to an English-speaking country. That's it.
Those are my top five ESL writing activities. If you like this video, please hit like, subscribe, and tell your friends. Also, be sure to check out the blog post with lots more ESL writing activities.
