PowerPoint Presentations.

These two presentations show how to organize a Cause and Effect essay.

1. Traffic Congestion in Abu Dhabi How to write Introductions, Cause paragraphs, Effect paragraphs and Conclusions.  (Right-click, Save Target as.. 146kb)

2. Destruction of the Rainforest. A Powerpoint presentation about Causes and Effects (Right-click, Save Target as.. 550kb)

Essay Models

1. Why is Fast Food so popular in the UAE? 

   • Outline 

   • Full essay

2. Traffic Congestion in Abu Dhabi

3. Download a Cause and Effect essay about traffic in Abu Dhabi in Microsoft Word.

4. Obesity in the UAE

5. Telecommuting

6. Homework

7. The UAE Marriage Fund. Has it succeeded? Why was it set up?

Short online Exercises

1. Adverb Clauses. Advanced. A graded multiple-choice quiz on adverb clauses from a4esl.org. http://a4esl.org/q/h/mb/adv_cause.html 

2. A gapfill exercise on smoking.

Longer Exercises

1. Worksheet for Cause and Effect of the Destruction of the Rainforest (Sheet prepared by Julie Wallace)

2. Try this activity on Causes of Hunger

Interactive Essays from publishers Holt Rinehart and Winston.

• Causes and Effects of Drought http://go.hrw.com/eolang/modbank/mbank/mb8-3.htm  An interactive essay
• Causes and Effects of Fire: Yellowstone National Park: http://go.hrw.com/elotM/0030526671/student/ch03/lg1403092_103.pdf  10 pages of activities/-pre-reading exercises.
• Download a Microsoft Word file which has the above reading on the causes and effects of fire in Yellowstone National Park and some questions
• Causes and Effects: Students & Part-Time workers: http://go.hrw.com/eolang/modbank/mbank/mb10-3.htm  An interactive essay

Other essays and readings

1. The effects of living in a foreign country. An example of a student’s cause and effect essay. http://eslbee.com/anon.htm 

2. Smoking: Cause and Effect. From a publisher’s site Houghton Mifflin. Not graded, but a very strong argument against smoking. http://college.hmco.com/devenglish/wong
   /paragraph_essentials/1e/students/exercises/ch9_1.html 

3. Another cause and effect essay about overcrowding in Mexico http://eslbee.com/luisam.htm 

4. Do television programs influence children? Read this article from a leading US newspaper. http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/
   getasciiarchive?script/98/04/17/041798.us.us.3 

5. Cause and effect of pollution in the sea - an essay by an Emirati student. http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/advwrf99/
   causeeffect/mubarakcause.html 

More Difficult Essays

1. Fast Food in the UK: A long essay about the reasons for the popularity of fast food in the UK. http://www.efl.arts.gla.ac.uk/CampusOnly/essays/FASTFOOD.htm There is an outline for the essay at http://www.efl.arts.gla.ac.uk/CampusOnly/essays/19web.htm 

2. From the same UK university site: Urbanization http://www.efl.arts.gla.ac.uk/CampusOnly/essays/URBAN.htm 

For Teachers

• http://www.onestopenglish.com/News/Magazine/Vocab/writing_cause_effect.htm  OneStopEnglish Cause and Effect essay. PDF download (285kb): a classroom activity on cities and overcrowding.

• http://www.literacymatters.org/content/text/cause.htm . Links to materials about cause and effect.

• Great handout on cause and effect of fires in Yellowstone National Park (12 pages PDF file) from Holt Rinehart & Winston. http://go.hrw.com/elotM/0030526671/
  student/ch03/lg1403092_103.pdf. Click here for a Word version

Topics for you to write about

1. What were the reasons behind the establishment of the Marriage Fund in the UAE, and what have been the results?

2. Identify causes of water pollution and its consequences.

3. Many Emiratis prefer to work in the public sector, rather than in the private sector. What are the reasons for this, and what effects does it have on the UAE?

4. Diabetes and heart attacks are on the rise in the UAE. What are the main causes of this, and what effects could this have for individuals and the government?

5. What are some of the causes of global warming? What could some of the effects be?