Show and Tell Presentation Template

Name of your writing activity:

Making an Idol Star

Teaching Context
Level of students Grade Level
beginner ■ intermediate ■ advanced mixed Middle School 1 Middle School 2 Middle
level School 3
■ High School 1 High School 2 High
Number of Students 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?

- Analyzing content
- Describing skills (Describe a person’s appearance, personality, hobbies, talents, and so on)
- Creative writing skills
- Presenting the proper reasons(supporting ideas) for the decision(main idea) – Persuasive writing skills

List steps/instructions required to perform this activity.

- Scrutinize each person’s information. Based on the analysis of the information, choose only one person.
- Write down the reasons why you made the choice in detail.
They should include at least 3 strengths and one weakness with solution.

Rationale
Why would you use this writing activity in your classroom?

1) Since the topic is familiar to learners and most of them would be interested in the topic, they can come up with many
ideas. It helps students reduce their anxiety to writing and enjoy presenting their ideas in English
2) This activity encourages students to develop their English proficiency: vocabulary, grammar, and structure

Could this activity be easily adapted to different teaching contexts? If so how? If not, why not?

Yes, because teachers can easily change the level of the activity by controlling the amount of information given for the
activity. (controlled writing to free writing) For example, lower level learners would be given more words or phrases to
use for their writing. (or they simply complete the sentence by filling out the blank.) Higher level learners would be given
more freedom to use their own words to complete the task.
 Activity Strengths Activity Weaknesses

1) Fun 1) Hard to handle mixed level of students in one

2) Practice a variety of writing skills group.
3) Practical
4) Easy to conduct
5) Easy to share learners’ products.