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The purpose of this study is to see how the simple sentence writing practice helps students to improve English at the level-differentiated classes. For this purpose, students of two classes were tested on four areas of English, vocabulary, structure, grammar, and reading comprehension, before the semester began. Then, they were divided into two different levels of classes, higher level and lower level respectively depending on their scores of test. For a semester students were instructed under almost an identical study conditions; by the same instructor with the same teaching materials. In class, students were guided to write answers in English to simple yes-no or wh-questions right after reading a paragraph. To enhance students' grammar knowledge, the notion of subject, verb, tense and other important grammatical categories was also reminded. Most of all, studies of vocabularies and collocations were emphasized and sometimes individually checked. At the end of the semester, students in two different groups were tested on the same questions they have taken before. The result has shown that students in both groups showed a significant improvement of English skills in four different areas. More importantly, it reveals that studies of vocabularies and collocations played an important role in improving students' English skills in the lower level class.