EAP (Academic English) writing
exercises
Essay fundamentals (intermediate and up). A multiple choice exercise on essay and paragraph writing.
Mini Lesson. University education. Compare and contrast essay (good intermediate and up). This is an essay comparing and contrasting university education in the USA and Australia.
Mini Lesson. Cars. Short argumentative essay (intermediate and up). This is an essay discussing the importance of the car. Complete all four exercises to improve your vocabulary, writing and listening skills.
Mini Lesson. Food. Argumentative essay (very good intermediate and up). This is an argumentative essay discussing modern eating habits in the UK.
Mini Lesson. Video games. Argumentative essay (good intermediate and up). This is an argumentative essay discussing the dangers of computer games.
Mini Lesson. Enrolments graph (good intermediate and up). This a description of some statistical information about the number of students in a school. It has a graph which goes with it.
Australian
Private Schools (upper
intermediate and up). A short essay on the cause of the popularity of private
education in Australia.
Text ordering exercise. Put the
essay in order.
Word form exercise. Type in the
correct word form.
Children.
Argumentative paragraph (good intermediate and up). This is a paragraph addressing the question, "Are women solely responsible
for bringing up children?"
Multiple choice sentences. This
will check your understanding of grammar and register (appropriate language).
You have to choose the best sentence to fit in each gap in the paragraph.
Word form exercise. Check your
knowledge of word families with this exercise.
Descriptive
paragraph (good intermediate and up) This is a paragraph describing
the spread of English.
Multiple choice vocabulary.
Cause phrases
and sentences (good intermediate and up).
Word ordering exercise. Practise
cause and effect phrases and sentence structure.
Bibliography (upper intermediate and up).
Text ordering exercise. Put the correct entries into alphabetical order. Be careful of the entries which
don't follow the rules for a bibliography.
Letter
to a newspaper (good intermediate and up). This is
a letter to a newspaper about the negative effects of tourism in Asian countries.
It has some aspects of an argumentative essay in it.
Text
ordering exercise. This will check that you understand the structure and
ideas of a persuasive letter.
Cloze exercise. Check your articles and
prepositions with this exercise.