Writing 3 Checklist:
Start from the top of the Writing Lessons Page and go down the page.
Check off activities when you complete them.
Folder: What do I do? Click here, and read the instructions.
o Read: What to do in this Writing 3 class.
o Read: What do these computer words mean? (Print this if it’s difficult)
Folder: Week 1: Set goals, Introduce yourselves, Review
o Write answers: What are your goals for this class. When done, click submit.
o Write answers: Think about how to organize yourself for this class. When done, click
submit.
o Write answers: Answer 5 questions about yourself. When done, click submit.
o Write sentences: Type 5 sentences about yourself. When done, click submit.
o Write sentences on a discussion forum: Introduce yourself. Click on New Post to write,
then click submit when done.
o Read two or more posts from other students and reply: Introduce yourself. Click on Reply
to write, then click submit when done.
o Read: Connie’s basic rules of grammar. Take notes of new information.
Folder: Colors and Clothing
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Look at Review colors with pictures.
Practice spelling: Colors
Write sentences: Write sentences using colors. When done, click submit.
Look at Review clothing words with pictures.
Practice spelling: Clothing
Practice spelling: Play these games: Unscramble 15 clothing words.
Write sentences: Type 6 sentences about clothing and colors. When done, click submit.
Folder: Week 2: Weather, Family, Review
Folder: Adjectives and Weather
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Look at Adjectives – List of Opposites. Take notes.
Play this game: Find the opposites #1
Play this game: Find the opposites #2
Write sentences: Write about a friend. Use adjectives. When done, click submit.
Play this game. Find the words that mean the same #1.
Play this game. Find the words that mean the same #2.
Look at: Learn these weather words and weather sentence patterns. Take notes.
Write: Write the weather sentences for these pictures. When done, click submit.
Look at and practice spelling: Learn the seasons.
Write: Write sentences about these weather pictures. Save the file and email to Connie.
Folder: Family and Other People
o Practice Spelling: People
o Write: Write about your family. When done, click submit.
o Read and write: Read the examples and write 10 sentences. Save the file and email to
Connie.
o Write sentences on a discussion forum: Tell other students about your family. Click New
Post to write, then click submit when done.
o Read two or more posts from other students and reply: Tell other students about your
family. Click on Reply to write, then click submit when done.
o Read: When to use “in”, “at”, and “on” with time and places. Take notes.
o Write: 10 sentences using “in”, “at”, or “on”. When done, click submit.
Folder: Present Continuous Verbs
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Read: Grammar Explanation: Present Continuous. Take notes.
Read: Present Continuous Verb Tense: How to form it. Take notes.
Read and then do exercises: Present Continuous Verb Tense: spelling -ing verbs. Email.
Read: Present Continuous Verb Tense: How to spell the –ing Verbs. Take notes.
Print and fill out: this file with each verb you use and learn.
Read: Present Continuous Verb Tense: When to Use it. Take notes.
Read, then do exercises: Present Continuous Verb Tense: Negatives. Email to Connie.
Write: about what people are doing in this picture. Picture #1. Click submit when done.
Write: about what people are doing in this picture. Picture #2. Click submit when done.
Write: about what people are doing in this picture. Picture #3. Click submit when done.
Read and do exercises: Present Continuous Verb Tense: Questions. Email to Connie.
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Read and write questions: Present Continuous Verb Tense and Questions. Email to Connie.
Write: Present Continuous Verb Tense: Review. Email to Connie.
Take a quiz: Present Continuous Verbs: Quiz. Click submit when done.
Take a quiz: Present Continuous Verb Tense.
Play this game: Present Continuous Verb Tense: Unscramble.
Play this game: Present Continuous Verb Tense: Unscramble #2
Play this game: Present Continuous Verb Tense: Negatives: Unscramble
Play this game: Present Continuous Verb Tense: Negatives: Unscramble #2
Play this game: Present Continuous Verb Tense: Questions: Unscramble
Play this game: Present Continuous Verb Tense: Questions: Unscramble #2
Play this game: Present Continuous Verbs Hangman
Play this game: Present Continuous Verbs: Fling your Teacher
Write: questions about this picture. Then email it to Connie.
Read and write: Review when to use “this, that, these, or those.” Email to Connie.
Folder: Week 3: Food, Health, Daily Activities
Folder: Food
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Practice spelling: food
Read and practice spelling: Review food words with pictures.
Read and practice spelling: Food: Meat and..
Read and practice spelling: Review fruit words with pictures.
Read and practice spelling: Food: Fruit
Read and practice spelling: Review vegetable words with pictures.
Read and practice spelling: Vegetables
Read and practice spelling: Review dishes with pictures.
Read and practice spelling: Food: Bread and…
Write: What do you eat every week? Click submit when done.
Read: Grammar Explanation: Simple Present. Take notes.
Write: Write 10 sentences. Tell what food you like and what food you eat. Click submit
when done.
Read: Grammar Explanation: Negative Simple Present Tense. Take notes.
Write: 20 sentences about food. Click submit when done.
Read: Simple Present Tense. Take notes.
Do these exercises: Practice Simple Present Tense: Make the sentences negative.
Play this game: Practice Simple Present Tense: Negative Sentence: Unscramble the
sentences #2.
Folder: Body and Health
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Practice spelling: Spelling Practice: Body Parts
Practice spelling: Review body parts with pictures.
Practice spelling: Body Parts page 21.
Practice spelling: Body Parts page 22.
Practice spelling: Body Parts page 23.
Write: Body Parts: How many do you have? Click submit when done.
Read and review: Health Problems. It hurts. They hurt. Take notes.
Write: What’s the matter? My ears hurt. Click submit when done.
Write: My Grandmother’s Health Problems. Click submit when done.
Read: Health Problems. I have a headache. Take notes.
Write: Health Problems: Write 2 sentences about each problem. Save them and email
them to Connie as an attachment.
o Read: Review the meanings of these pronouns. Take notes.
o Write: Review the meanings of these pronouns. Click submit when done.
o Write: Health Problems: Write 24 sentences. Click submit when done.
Folder: Daily Activities
o Read and study: Daily activities words and phrases. Take notes.
o Read and practice spelling: Vocabulary: Personal Things. Take notes.
o Write: sentences using each of the personal things in the vocabulary above. Click submit
when done.
o Practice spelling: Sports, Activities, Hobbies. Take notes.
o Read: Writing about sports and hobbies. Take notes.
o Write: about your hobbies. Click submit when done.
o Write sentences on a discussion forum: What are your hobbies? Click New Post to write,
then click submit when done.
o Read two or more posts from other students and reply: What are your hobbies? Click on
Reply to write, then click submit when done.
o Read: Using “to” between 2 Verbs. Take notes.
o Read: Daily Schedule page 61.
o Write: a paragraph #1 about everything you do in the morning. Click submit when done.
o Print: Checklist for a Good Paragraph. Read every time you write a paragraph.
o Rewrite: your paragraph about everything you do in the morning. Click submit when done.
o Write: Answer these questions. Save the file and email to Connie.
o Write: a paragraph #1 about everything you do in the evening. Click submit when done.
o Rewrite: your paragraph about everything you do in the evening. Click submit when done.
o Write: Tell what you and a family member do on the weekends. Click submit when done.
o Read: Simple Present Tense: Making Questions. Take notes.
o Play the game: Practice Simple Present Tense: Questions.
o Play the game: Practice Simple Present Tense: Questions #2.
Folder: Week 4: Rooms, Furniture, Community
Folder: Rooms and Furniture
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Read and spell: Rooms page 36
Read and spell: Furniture page 37
Read and spell: Furniture page 38
Read and spell: Furniture page 39
Read and spell: Furniture page 40
Read: There is….,There are… Take notes.
Read: Prepositions page 41.
Read and practice spelling: Building and Housing Word List.
Read and spell: Furniture page 42.
Read: Connie’s House.
Write: a paragraph about your house or apartment. Click submit when done.
Read: More Prepositions of Place: in, at, and on. Take notes.
Play this game: Prepositions of Place #1.
Play this game: Prepositions of Place #2.
Folder: Community and Transportation
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Read and spell: Transportation page 44.
Write: sentences about transportation. Click submit when done.
Read: Map Directions page 45.
Write: directions from a store to your house. Click submit when done.
Read and spell: Community Buildings.
Read: There is…There are.. Take notes.
Write: about your community. Click submit when done.
Write sentences on a discussion forum: Tell about your community. Click New Post to
write, then click submit when done.
o Read two or more posts from other students and reply: Tell about your community or ask
about their community. Click on Reply to write, then click submit when done.
o Write: Dear…. Click submit when done.
Folder: Week 5: Feelings and Describe Things
Folder: Simple Present or Present Continuous
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Read: Present Continuous Verb Tense. Take notes.
Read and do exercises: Simple Present or Present Continuous.
Write: Answer these questions in present continuous or simple present. Email to me.
Read: Non-Action Verbs. Take notes.
Read: Non-Action Verbs: List and Explanation. Take notes.
Read: Question Words. Take notes.
Take this quiz: Simple Present or Present Continuous Quiz.
Read: this explanation about Simple Present Verbs. Take notes.
Read: this explanation about Simple Present Tense Verbs: Spelling. Take notes.
Read: this explanation about Simple Present Tense Verbs. Take notes.
Take a practice quiz: Present Tense: Practice Quiz.
Read: List of Question Words. Take notes.
Take a practice quiz: Practice with this Present Tense Quiz.
Take a practice quiz: Practice with this Simple Present Quiz.
Take a practice quiz: Practice Simple Present Tense.
Take a practice quiz: Practice Present Continuous Verb Tense.
Take a quiz: Present Continuous or Simple Present Tense. Click submit when done.
Play a game: Practice Simple Present Tense: Unscramble.
Play a game: Practice Simple Present Tense: Unscramble #2.
Play a game: Practice Simple Present Tense: Hangman
Play a game: Practice Simple Present or Present Continuous: Snakes and Ladders
Write: Present Continuous or Simple Present Tense? Click submit when done.
Write: Simple Present or Present Continuous verbs in the blanks. Email it to me.
Folder: Vocabulary Practice: Adjectives
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Play: this matching game. Which words go together?
Play this matching game. Which words go together? #2.
Play: these games. Match the parts of speech.
Play: these 6 games. Match the parts of speech. #2.
Read: Adjective Word Order. Take notes.
Read: Words to Describe. Take notes.
Write: Describe something. Click submit when done.
Read: these riddles and guess the answers.
o Write: a riddle that other students can guess. Click submit when done.
o Write on a discussion forum: a riddle that other students can guess. Click New Post to
write, then click submit when done.
o Read two or more posts from other students and guess: a riddles that other students can
guess. Click on Reply to write, then click submit when done.
Folder: Feelings
o Read: adjectives from Pink Book pages 30-32. Practice spelling.
o Write: about how people feel in each picture and why they feel that way. Click submit
when done.
o Write: about how people feel and why they feel that way #2. Click submit when done.
Folder: Week 6: Occupations & Past Tense
Folder: Past Tense: Regular and Irregular
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Read: this explanation about past tense verbs: spelling. Take notes.
Print and fill out: list of common regular past tense verbs.
Read, print, and fill out: Past Tense Sentences Patterns.
Read: this link about past tense verbs and time phrases. Take notes.
Write: 5-10 sentences using the time phrases in the lesson above. Click submit when done.
Print and study: List of Irregular Verb Forms. Use this as a reference.
Read: this explanation about Past Tense Irregular Verbs. Take notes.
Print and fill out: these are common irregular words you need to know.
Fill out: Do you know the past tense of these verbs? Save, fill out, and email it to me.
Fill out: Quiz yourself. Do you know the past tense form of each of these verbs? Write: a
paragraph about what you did last night. Click submit when done.
o Read: this explanation about Past Tense Verbs: Negatives. Take notes.
o Write: 10 sentences, 5 affirmative and 5 negatives, using past tense. Click submit when
done.
o Read: this explanation about Past Tense Be Verbs: Was and Were. Take notes.
Folder: Occupations
o Write: Answer these questions using past tense. Send as an email attachment to me.
o Read and fill in: Read these work questions and study typical work sentences. Save and
send it to me.
o Read and practice spelling: Occupations (Jobs), A- K
o Read and practice spelling: Occupations (Jobs), L – Z
o Read and take notes: Picture Dictionary Vocabulary: Tools
o Play these games: Unscramble 15 job words.
o Take this quiz: Describe job duties of many occupations.
o Take this quiz: Describe job duties of many occupations #2.
o Write: about your last job. Click submit when done.
o Write on a discussion forum: Tell others about your last job. Click New Post to write, then
click submit when done.
o Read two or more posts from other students and reply. Ask about their jobs. Click on
Reply to write, then click submit when done.
o Write: about your job skills: Use “I can”, “I know how to”, or “I am able to”. Click submit
when done.
Folder: Week 7: Your Life: Past Tense: More Practice, Writing Questions
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Print: List of Irregular Verb Forms
Fill in: Irregular Verbs form
Fill in: Irregular Verbs 2
Take a practice quiz: Practice Past Tense.
Play this game: Past Tense Game: Snakes and Ladders.
Play this game: Practice Past Tense Irregular Verbs: Jeopardy.
Play this game: Practice Past Tense Irregular Verbs: Jeopardy #2.
Take a practice quiz: Past Tense Quiz 1.doc.
Fill out: Past Tense Review.doc. Send it to me.
Fill out: Past Tense Verbs.xls. Then send it to me as an email attachment.
Play this game: Past Tense: Unscramble.
Play this game: Past Tense: Unscramble #2.
Play this game: Past Tense: Negative: Unscramble
Play this game: Past Tense: Negative: Unscramble #2.
Read: Study these past tense question patterns. Take notes.
Write: Study these past tense question patterns. Email it to me..
Play this game: Past Tense: Questions: Unscramble.
Play this game: Past Tense: Questions: Unscramble #2.
Print and fill out: Look for patterns in irregular verbs and list them. Bring it to class.
Folder: Your Life Story
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Write: questions about a wedding. Send it to me as an email attachment.
Write: answer questions about a wedding. Send it to me as an email attachment.
Write: 10 sentences using the past tense of be. Click submit when done.
Review: Checklist for a Good Paragraph.
Write: Your Childhood Paragraph. Click submit when done.
Write on a discussion forum: Tell others about your childhood. Click New Post to write,
then copy and paste from your paragraph above. Correct errors. Click submit when
done.
Read two or more posts from other students and reply. Ask about their childhoods. Click
on Reply to write, then click submit when done.
Write: Your Life Story, Part 1. Click submit when done.
Write: Your Life Story, Part 2. Click submit when done.
Write: Your Life Story, Part 3. Click submit when done.
Folder: Week 8: Vacations, Parts of Speech
Folder: Vacations
o Write: a paragraph about your favorite vacation. Click submit when done.
o Write: about your favorite vacation. Click New Post to write, then copy and paste from
your vacation paragraph above. Correct errors. Click submit when done.
o Read two or more posts from other students and reply. Ask about their vacation
o Click on Reply to write, then click submit when done.
o Write: about one of your classmates’ favorite vacations from their discussion forum post
above. Change the names and verbs if needed. Then click submit.
Folder: More Vocabulary, more information about parts of speech
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Read: Here, There, Anywhere: about locations. Take notes.
Read: Object Pronouns: me, him, her, it, you, us, them. Take notes.
Read: Using and, or, and but. Take notes.
Study: Prepositions. Take notes.
Play: these games, matching things with categories
Read: the parts of speech with examples. Take notes.
Folder: Articles: a, an, the, nothing
o Read: When do we use “a”, “an”, or “the”? Take notes.
o Read and fill out: Using articles. Save and send it as an email to me.
o Find the nouns and fill out: the “a”, “an”, and “the” in the story. Save and send it as an
email to me.
o Find the nouns and write in articles in Extra Practice. Save and send it as an email to me.
o Play: “a, an, the, or nothing?” Hoop Shot game
o Play: “a, an, the, or nothing?” Snakes and Ladders game
Week 9: Your Future
Folder: Future Tense
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Read: Future Tense: Will. Take notes.
Read: Future Tense: going to… Take notes.
Read: Crazy future rule. Take notes.
Practice: all Future Verbs (will, be going to, etc.)
Write: about your goals. Click submit when done.
Write: Imagine your life 5 years in the future. Click submit when done.
Write: about your shopping plans this week or next week. Click submit when done.
Read: the explanation about “want” and “will” and answer the questions. Take notes.
Write: about some things you would like to do in the next five years. Click submit when
done.
o Write: a note to your boss or teacher. Click submit when done.
Week 10: Advice
Folder: Modals: can, could, should, may, will, would,
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Read and study: Modals. Take notes.
Read: about modals. Take notes.
Write: sentences using modals. Click submit when done.
Write: I have a bad cold. What should I do? Click submit when done.
Read and write: My friend has a problem Click submit when done.
o Go to a new and/or interesting place this weekend. Write about your experience. Click
submit when done.
o Post: to others about the interesting place you went. Click New Post to write, then copy
and paste from your paragraph above. Correct errors. Click submit when done.
o Read two or more posts from other students and reply. Ask about their experience or the
place they went. Click on Reply to write, then click submit when done.
Folder: Review all level 3 Verb Tenses: Present, Past, Future
o Write: tell others what they should do to succeed in class. Click submit when done.
o Write to others on the discussion forum. Click New Post to write, then copy and paste
from your advice on how to succeed in class paragraph above. Correct errors. Click
submit when done.
o Read two or more posts from other students and reply. Ask about their advice or success.
Click on Reply to write, then click submit when done.
o Read: a list of writing ideas. Take notes for ideas.
o Practice: answering questions (verb tense review).
o Read: these paragraphs and write the main ideas. Click submit when done.
o Make: an appointment to take your ESL tests at BTC.
Week 11: Review what you learned
o Read: Connie’s explanations about common writing errors. Take notes.
o Study: common prepositions with common verbs. Take notes.
o Write: Think about what you have experienced and learned in this class. Click submit when
done.
o Write to others about what you experienced and learned in this class on the discussion
forum. Click New Post to write, then copy and paste from your paragraph above. Correct
errors. Click submit when done.
o Read two or more posts from other students and reply. Ask about their experience. Click
on Reply to write, then click submit when done.