Cause-and-Effect Essays EAP Worksheets & Activities

EAP Cause-and-Effect Essays Worksheet - Writing Exercises: Categorising, Gap-fill, Identifying, Listing, Creating an Essay Outline, Writing an Essay, Peer Review In this useful cause-and-effect essays worksheet, students are introduced to cause-and-effect essay block structure and attempt a cause-and-effect essay writing practice. First, students read a description of cause-and-effect essays and compare two structures for organising a cause-and-effect essay - block structure and chain structure. Students then arrange transition signals in cause-and-effect essays according to their functions and complete two sentences with the transition signals. After that, students read an example essay and underline all the transition signals. Next, with a partner, students discuss and list the possible causes and effects of three issues. Students then move on to choose one issue and create a cause-and-effect essay outline. Following that, students use the outline to write their own cause-and-effect essay. Finally, students swap their essay with another student and do a peer review. show less

EAP Cause-and-Effect Essays Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, Writing an Outline and Essay - Speaking Activity: Discussion - Group Work In this productive cause-and-effect essay writing practice, students read a text on the topic of burnout and then plan and write a block-structure cause-and-effect essay about a health issue. Students start by reading a text on the topic of burnout. Students then match words in bold from the text to their definitions. Next, students complete advice about writing a cause-and-effect essay with the words provided. In small groups, students then choose another health issue and discuss its causes and effects and list them in a table. Working alone, students then use the list to prepare a cause-and-effect essay outline. After that, students use their outline to write a cause-and-effect essay about their chosen health issue. Lastly, students swap papers with a partner and use a checklist to review and provide feedback on their partner's essay. show less

EAP Cause-and-Effect Essays Activity - Writing and Speaking: Brainstorming, Creating an Essay Outline, Presenting, Communicative Practice - Group Work In this cause-and-effect essays activity, students brainstorm the causes and effects of an issue, create an essay outline based on block or point-by-point structure, and present it to the class. First, in groups, students brainstorm as many causes and effects as they can for an issue. Afterwards, groups review their lists, eliminate any weak or irrelevant ideas, decide on their three strongest causes and three strongest effects, and choose whether a point-by-point or a block structure best fits their issue and why. Groups then complete an essay outline by adding a thesis statement and a topic sentence for each paragraph, adhering to their chosen structure. Next, each group prepares and then presents the completed outline to the class, providing clear reasons why their chosen structure block or point-by-point is most effective for their specific issue. Finally, list the topics presented on the board and note which structure each group chose, getting feedback from the students. show less

EAP Cause-and-Effect Essays Activity - Speaking and Writing: Discussion, Presenting, Asking and Answering Questions, Communicative Practice, Essay Writing - Group Work Here is an engaging cause-and-effect essay activity to help students practice identifying and explaining causes and effects of hypothetical events and essay writing. First, in groups of three, students take on the role of an anchor, researcher and analyst, whose task it is to prepare a news report about a major hypothetical event. Students then read an event card and use prompts to brainstorm possible causes and effects of the event. Groups then complete a framework, prepare their news report and then present it to the class with each student presenting their assigned part. The other groups listen and act as fact-checkers, each asking a question to the presenting group after their report. Finally, students use their completed news report framework for a timed writing task in which they write a short four-paragraph cause-and-effect essay based on their group's event. show less

EAP Cause-and-Effect Essays Worksheet - Grammar and Writing Exercises: Identifying, Combining Sentences, Writing an Outline and Essay In this free cause-and-effect signal words worksheet, students review and practice signal words that can be used in a cause-and-effect essay. Students start by previewing a table illustrating the usage of various cause signal words. Students then analyse sentences containing cause signal words, identifying the part of the sentence that introduces the cause, the cause signal word and the grammar structure that follows the cause signal. Next, students preview a table illustrating the usage of various effect signal words and repeat the same procedure as the first exercise. After that, students read sentence pairs and decide which expresses a cause and which expresses an effect. Students then combine the sentences using a suitable signal word. Next, students choose a topic and create a cause-and-effect essay outline. Finally, students use the outline to write a cause-and-effect essay to practice the cause-and-effect signal words from the worksheet. show less

EAP Cause-and-Effect Essays Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Identifying, Gap-fill, Categorising, Matching, Creating an Outline, Peer Review, Essay Writing In this cause-and-effect essays worksheet, students learn and practice point-by-point cause-and-effect essay structure. First, students discuss a cause-and-effect related question in pairs. Students then read an introduction explaining the difference between block and point-by-point cause-and-effect essay structure. Next, students read an example point-by-point cause-and-effect essay and then list the causes and effects mentioned. After that, students list two causes and two effects for three topics. Students then complete sentences with cause-and-effect signal words from a box and categorise them, according to their function. Following that, students match sentence halves to create topic sentences. Next, students choose a topic and complete a point-by-point cause-and-effect essay outline which is peer reviewed by a partner. After that, students give each other feedback and make any necessary changes to the outline. Finally, students use the outline to write a point-by-point cause-and-effect essay. show less