Crafting Your English Essay: A2 Level Writing Skills

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Crafting Your English Essay: A2 Level Writing Skills

*Writing an Essay

*Discussing your essay

What do you already know about essay writing?

Essay Structure

*Introduction (general info on the topic)

*body (2 to 3 paragraphs)

*conclusion (It presents an argument or personal viewpoint)

Today's topic

"My life with (or without) social media"

Goal: Write a short personal essay about your relationship with social media. You can describe how you use it, how it affects your life, or imagine a life without it.

How many hours a day do you use social media?

Which platform do you use most?

A

TikTok

B

X

C

Instagram

D

Other

How do you think it helps your daily life?

How do you think it hurts your daily life?

Could you live without it for one day?

A

yes

B

no

Planning Your Essay

Brainstorm questions:

*What do I do on social media every day?

*What are the good and bad things about it?

*How does it make me feel?

*What would my day be like without it?

Create an outline:

Introduction: What is your general opinion of social media?

Body Paragraph 1: How you use it and why.

Body Paragraph 2: two positive effects

Body Paragraph 3: two negative effects

Conclusion: Your final thoughts or a personal experience.

Use your outline to write your essay

Peer review

Send your essay to someone else in class

They check:

*Are there 4/5 paragraphs?

*Does it have a clear beginning, middle, and end?

*Are the verbs correct (present simple/past simple)?

*Are the ideas easy to understand?

*Is there basic punctuation? (puntjes en comma's)

Name something interesting that you learned of your classmate's social media habits

Back to work

Taalblokken -> Building Blocks A2 -> Unit 4 -> 4.3 Writing