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To write a good essay,you must start with an introduction. The introduction can be a quotation, something to captivate audience from the start. In the first paragraph of the essay you must include your thesis,what are you going to speak about in your essay,the main idea. Then you have to support you...

I make one important distinction when teaching Present Simple and Present progressive. Students have to realize that Present Simple is used to express a general, habitual, repeated action in contrast with the Progressive Present where the action is taking place NOW, at the moment of speaking or has ...

Several criteria of assessing writing can be taken into account when grading a written piece of work: cohesion, coherence, originality, grammar, vocabulary, syntax. A percentage can be given for each criterium.

The most common way of testing students'writing proficiency is to make them write an essay. The essay is the writing test required by many universities all around the world. Of course,writing essays works with advanced students in English. If students are highschool, then making them write a short s...

One major problem I've encountered while teaching adults is fear of grammar mistakes.They get stuck in conversation because they are afraid of using the wrong tense and so on. I always try to let them speak as conveying meaning is of utmost importance. Many mistakes will be corrected on the way and ...