Essay Writing EAP Worksheets & Games
Academic Style

EAP Academic Style Worksheet - Vocabulary and Reading Exercises: Matching, Identifying, Providing Synonyms
In this free academic style worksheet, students learn and practice some common rules of academic style for essay writing. First, students match sentence halves together to reveal six common...
Body Paragraphs

EAP Body Paragraphs Worksheet -Reading and Writing Exercises: Writing Sentences, Creating a Paragraph Outline, Writing Paragraphs
In this informative body paragraphs worksheet, students practice planning and writing body paragraphs that support a thesis statement. To begin, students...
Concluding Paragraphs

EAP Concluding Paragraphs Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Paraphrasing, Writing Sentences from Prompts, Writing a Concluding Paragraph
In this useful concluding paragraphs worksheet, students learn and practice writing concluding paragraphs that restate a thesis statement, summarise key...
Essay Cohesion, Coherence and Unity

EAP Essay Cohesion, Coherence and Unity Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Categorising, Gap-fill, Identifying, Rewriting a Paragraph
In this comprehensive essay writing worksheet, students learn and practice essay cohesion, coherence and unity. Students start by reading information about...
Essay Outlines

EAP Essay Outlines Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Identifying, Brainstorming, Creating an Essay Outline, Writing an Essay
This productive essay outlines worksheet helps to teach students how to create outlines as part of the essay writing process. To start, students read about the...
Essay Structure Running Dictation

EAP Essay Activity - Reading, Writing and Speaking: Comprehension Questions, Writing Explanations, Discussion, Freer Practice - Pair and Group Work
This essay writing running dictation activity helps students practice the key components of essay structure. First, one student in each pair stands up, runs to...
Essay Writing Review

EAP Essay Writing Review Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Writing Paragraphs, Identifying, Error Correction, Matching, True or False Questions
In this handy essay writing review worksheet, students revise basic academic essay writing and practice the skills covered in previous worksheets in this series...
Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices

EAP Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Identifying, Categorising, Error Correction
In this insightful sentence structure errors worksheet, students practice identifying and correcting fragments, run-on sentences, and comma splices. First...
Introduction Paragraphs

EAP Introduction Paragraphs Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Ordering, Writing a Thesis Statement, Paragraph Completion, Writing Introduction Paragraphs
In this engaging introduction paragraphs worksheet, students learn and practice how to write introduction paragraphs that have a background and thesis...
Paragraph and Essay Structure Comparison

EAP Paragraph and Essay Structure Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Table Completion, Short Answer Questions
In this detailed paragraph and essay structure worksheet, students compare paragraph and essay structure to familiarise themselves with the basic parts of an academic essay. Students begin by reading...
Parts of an Essay

EAP Parts of an Essay Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: True or False, Matching, Labelling, Brainstrorming, Creating an Essay Outline, Writing an Essay
In this free parts of an essay worksheet, students learn about the various parts that make up an academic essay and practice writing a structured, logical,...
Peer Feedback Workshop

EAP Peer Feedback Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Writing Sentences, Peer Review - Speaking Activity: Discussion, Communicative Practice - Pair Work
This informative essay writing worksheet develops students' ability to give effective peer feedback for academic writing, focusing on content, organisation, and...
Hedging Language

EAP Essay Writing Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Identifying, Rewriting Sentences, Unscrambling, Sentence Combining, Changing Sentence Structure
In this useful hedging language worksheet, students learn and practice words and phrases that can be used in academic writing and speaking to soften a claim...
Essay Writing Dominoes

EAP Essay Writing Game - Vocabulary: Matching - Group Work
Here is a fun essay writing game to help students review and reinforce their understanding of key terms and concepts in essay writing. To begin, students turn over the top domino from the pile and place it face-up on the table. The first player...