Jigsaw activity – Meet Your Teacher
These activities introduce the teacher and lead up to a paragraph writing exercise (connected to Task 1 - Describing a Person) while practicing all four skills. Should be good for Lesson 1.
NOTE: You will have to alter the information with your own personal information (or it can be left like this, perhaps changing the name). Shouldn’t take long to knock out similar length paragraphs.
Process
• Put the students into pairs. Hand out Meet Your Teacher I to half the class and Meet Your Teacher II to the other half.
• Students work through the three steps (reading and comprehension questions, reading aloud and listening, writing a paragraph). The instructions are on the students’ handouts.
• During the reading aloud and listening task, I usually pre-teach a few interaction phrases to help students negotiate meaning (I’m sorry, I didn’t catch that, What does ~ mean? Etc).
• To complete all the activities could take between 50~90 minutes, depending on how you want to run it (A lot of oral feedback from the students, correction of language on the board, vocabulary highlighting etc).
• I have also tried to include some of the vocabulary from the Reading thread of Level 2.
• The paragraphs can be used as models for the students as they work towards the first assessed task in week four/five.
Level 2_writing_jigsaw activity
3 comments ↓
Like it Damon.A good starter. Some people might do a running dictation too..
Looks good. Always a good idea to have another model paragraph for students to refer to as they do an assessed task, especially a model that they have worked on a bit.
I will be using this next week! Thank you, Damon.
It’s nice to promote speaking and communication in the writing class.
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