Show and Tell Presentation Template

Name of your writing activity:

Short description of favorite things
Teaching Context
Level of students Grade Level
beginner intermediate advanced Middle School 1 Middle School 2
mixed level Middle School 3
High School 1 High School 2
Number of Students High School 3
<10 10-20 20-40
Class Time
Other; please specify __________ Regular Class Afterschool Class
50 min 90 min Other; please
specify __________
Activity Description
What writing skills does this activity teach?
- describing a thing or a person
- expanding sentences by adjectives
- combining separate sentences into one paragraph

List steps/instructions required to perform this activity.

1. Choose the favorite one in the picture.
2. Ask and answer the given questions with pairs.
3. Write about their favorite things.
4. Share their opinions.
5. Depict the appearance and its action of favorite things.

Rationale
Why would you use this writing activity in your classroom?
- Students can write something easily within the limits.
- Students can practice speaking as well as writing.
- This activity can stimulate students to write by easy and interesting materials.
- Students can brainstorm sharing information of favorite things.

Could this activity be easily adapted to different teaching contexts? If so how? If not, why not?
- Yes it could. That is because we can choose any topic about a person or a thing
around us and make the worksheet easy or hard according to students’ level.
- To motivate up the beginner level to advanced level, this teaching materials can be
used to students.
- In the first step of introduction of class, the teacher can use this activity to practice
WH- questions.
 Activity Strengths Activity Weaknesses

- Writing activity and speaking activity - It is not easy to find students’ common
can be connected. interests in topic.
- According to students’ level, it is simple - Students can have difficulty in finding
to make the activity easy or hard. appropriate adjectives for describing
- Students can extend their writing skill something or someone.
into a paragraph from sentences. - This activity has limit to develop
- Students can be motivated up the students’ creativity.
writing of English easily.
- Students can share their information on
the favorite things and understand each
other.
- Students can learn pleasantly on the
writing skills.