Paragraph 1 Write about yourself.
Focus: Present tense (be)
Exercises: Verbs
Punctuation and capitalization
Paragraph 2 Write about your father, or an older male relative.
Focus: Present tense (be)
Exercises: Pronouns
Punctuation and capitalization
Paragraph 3 Write about your classmate.
Focus: Present tense (be)
Exercises: Verbs and pronouns
Compound sentences
Adjectives and nouns
Paragraph 4 Write about the place where you live.
Focus: Present tense (have)
Exercises: Verbs
Punctuation and capitalization
Paragraph 5 Write about your home city and its people.
Focus: Present tense (have and be)
Exercises: Verbs
Compound
Articles
Paragraph 6 Write about what your classmate’s mother does every
day.
Focus: Present tense (third-person singular)
Exercises: Verbs
Punctuation and capitalization
Prepositions of time
Sentence order
Paragraph 7 Write about what you are doing right now.
Focus: Present continuous tense
Exercises: Verbs
Prepositions of space and direction
Paragraph 8 Write about your best or worst former teacher.
Focus: Past tense (be)
Exercises: Verbs
Punctuation and capitalization
Compound sentences
Pronouns
Paragraph 9 Write about what you did last
weekend, or on a recent trip.
Focus: Past tense (regular and irregular verbs)
Exercises: Complex sentences
Prepositions
Paragraph 10 Write about your classmate’s best childhood friend.
Focus: Past tense (irregular verbs)
Exercises: Pronouns
Punctuation and verbs
Articles
Paragraph 11 Write about how you spent a special summer.
Focus: Past tense (irregular verbs)
Exercises: Prepositions
Subordinate clauses
Sentence order
Paragraph 12 Write about you most frightening experience.
Focus: Past Continuous tense
Exercises: Verbs
Punctuation, capitalization, and articles
Complex sentences
Paragraph 13 Write about a funny experience you had.
Focus: Past continuous tense
Exercises: Prepositions
Paragraph 14 Write about what you are going to do this weekend.
Focus: Future tense (going to)
Exercises: Prepositions
Subordinate clause
Paragraph 15 Describe how the world will be in 2100
Focus: Future tense (will)
Exercises: That clauses
Punctuation and capitalization
Verbs
Paragraph 16 Write about your last three months.
Focus: Present perfect tense
Exercises: Verbs
Prepositions and articles
Compound sentences
Paragraph 17 Write about what makes a good person.
Focus: Must
Exercises: Verbs
Transitions
Punctuation and capitalization
Paragraph 18 Write about your country.
Focus: Should
Exercises: Prepositions and articles
Subordinate clauses
Adjectives
Paragraph 19 Write about the person you want to marry, or to whom you are married.
Focus: Should and Must
Exercises: Articles
Relative clauses
Punctuation and capitalization
Paragraph 20 Write about your life at age 75.
Focus: Would like
Exercises: Verbs
Punctuation and capitalization
Infinitives