Want to stretch your English writing skills?

If you want to improve your writing skills, try one of these fun writing activities!

1. Write a story that is made up of 26 sentences, where each sentence begins with a different letter of the alphabet. The first sentence will start with “A”, the second sentence will start with “B”, and so on.
2. Practice using the common suffix “-ion” by writing a paragraph that includes at least 15 words that end in “-ion”.
3. Write a sentence that contains no nouns.
4. Write a sentence that contains four nouns, three verbs, two adjectives, and one adverb.
5. Write a sentence in which each word only has one vowel in it.
6. Write a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet at least once.
7. Write the longest sentence that you can – without using the letter “e”.
8. Write a paragraph about your most valued possession, using as many possessive pronouns as possible (my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their, and theirs).
9. Write a dialogue between two people with as many questions as possible.
10. Write down the lyrics of one of your favorite songs. Then use formal English formatting and language to transform those lyrics into a business letter.

Taken from ESL Basics