Your First English Writing Course: Basics for Writing 1

Here is a short first lesson to teach you how to say the first 10 numbers in English. They are very important later in the course.

Here you will begin with two of the most common words in English. You will learn how to use and write "This" and "That" correctly in sentences. You will also understand when to use these words. They are very basic and very important.

Now you will write sentences talking about who people are. You will learn how to correctly write many sentences about the people we know.

Here you will learn how to write sentences about what you like and what you don't like. This is your first time writing a negative in a sentence.

What can you do? What can't you do? Here you will learn how to write sentences talking about your ability and others. You will practice writing sentences about things you can do and things you can't do.

Whose is this? Whose is that? Now you are building bigger sentences with the lessons from before. You will be able to write sentences talking about who has a hat and where it is.

You have learned many things in a short time and now we will use them all to write sentences about clothes. You will be able to explain what clothing someone is wearing and what many common clothes are. You will write many sentences explaining peoples clothing and will start to build connecting sentences.

You are really learning now. Here you will learn parts of the human body. After learning some new vocabulary, you will be able to write sentences about them. Here we will also review many of the lessons before as we put everything together. Your sentences are really starting to get longer and better.

Now you will learn how to write about time. This is very important in explaining things to people you meet and in sentences you will write. Do you know how to write the date correctly? You will after this lesson.

Now it is time to start writing about things that are happening now. What are you doing? What is she doing? You will be able to write all about it now. You are really building sentences now!

Here is a big lesson for you. You will learn many new examples of negative forms of verbs. You will get lots of practice writing sentences about things that can and can't be done.  Things that are good and things that aren't good. This is a great lesson and another big part of the sentences you will be writing in the next lessons.

So now you will take it all the way to a hundred. You will learn how to count to 100 very quickly today and you will not forget this lesson. You will use these numbers in the next lesson too. Numbers are easy to learn in English and very important for many things. Let's get started.

You just learned so many new numbers. Now you will get to use them in sentences by counting things. You are doing great!

Here you will follow the story of Mikay and her friends as they take a trip to the playground. You will learn new vocabulary about the playground and use many of the lessons from before to write all about what you find there. It is a fun lesson that is very useful. It is also your first look at dialogue.

Story lessons are fun so you will get to have another one. This one will teach you all about the weather and how to write sentences about it. You will be able to tell what the weather is like and even write sentences about flying a kite.

Now you will learn about the different locations in a house. You will start making sentences about places in a home and what you can see there. This is a very important lesson for the future lessons when we start writing essays to describe locations.

Every year people have birthday's and you will have to buy your friends presents. Here we will write sentences and hear dialogue all about going to a party and about shopping for a present.

Here we will take a trip to the park and learn some new dialogue and sentences about the animals we see there. You will get to hear some real dialogue between the characters.

Here you will review a lot of what you have learned over the past lessons. This test will show you how much you have learned. This is a test of your foundation. After you finish this test, you will be ready to start the next course level and start harder sentences. I am excited to see you in Basics for Writing 2 where we will make even more sentences and use these skills there.