Descriptive Sentences Collection

Descriptive Sentences Collection
Salaam everyone! Here’s what I promised! A comprehensive list of descriptive sentences written by All of my grade 10 students. Minor changes have been made in some sentences. Hope you find this collection really useful when you teach descriptive letter writing. If you have something to share, please let us know. We would love to… ...

Zoos: It is time we closed them down!

Zoos: It is time we closed them down!
Not long ago, we heard about hundreds of wild tigers dying in our local zoo. A large number of animal rights activists described the incident as brutal murder. It is my contention that zoos must be closed down as they are not the animals’ natural homes. First and foremost, animals kept in cages are deprived… ...

A glimpse of how I do it #1

A glimpse of how I do it #1
Welcome! In these series of posts I will be sharing the steps I follow in teaching different skills to my students (In Sha Allah). Let’s start off with article or formal writing. First of all, I teach them basic tools of formal writing, the kind of language they should avoid and the kind of language… ...

ESL Article: Should exams be abolished?

ESL Article: Should exams be abolished?
Contributed by Mr Ahmed Nasir, Bileddhoo School. Proofread by eslmojo.com Exams are good for you or are they? How would you feel if schools stopped conducting the exams? Would you be relieved or dumfounded at the thought of it? Like many of you, I am of the opinion that schooling would be meaningless if our… ...

iESL Lesson – Passive Voice 2

iESL Lesson - Passive Voice
Imagine taking your students through a scary story about a scary ghost and they get to learn the most important passive structures of the English language. At the same time, when they do a follow up exercise, they get to learn a bit about Islamic ideas and facts. The exercise is designed in such as ...

Narrative Letters – Peer-analysis checklist

Narrative Letters - Peer-analysis checklist
A good narrative letter, can be compared to a phone call! How? Well, it’s just like you telling some “hot news” to a close friend of yours. Will you wait for a month to give hot news? Probably not, right? So would it be okay to start your narrative with “It’s been ages since I… ...