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"Who Am I?"

Text Box: 1) I am ___________________________ 2) I am___________________________ 3) I am___________________________ 4) I am___________________________ 5) I am___________________________ 6) I am___________________________ 7) I am___________________________ 8) I am___________________________ 9) I am___________________________

If you are looking for a fun and interesting activity, this one will help you kill two birds with one stone; as it will help students work on both their writing and speaking. Therefore, if you have just presented a vocabulary lesson about personal adjectives or even grammar, this activity is one of the best ways to let students freely practice the presented material.

Language Focus
Writing - Discussion

Level
Lower intermediate +

Time
15 – 20 minutes

Materials
Pen and paper

Preparation
None

Procedure :

1. Everyone (include yourself if you and your students feel comfortable sharing personal information) takes a page of A4 paper and divides it in two, horizontally
2. In the top half, draw a portrait.
3. In the bottom half, get the class to complete a sentence beginning I am………… in nine different ways. All the sentences must be grammatically correct, true and interesting. The instruction for the task may be met with blank looks: resist the temptation to intervene and allow the students time to discover for themselves that the more they experiment with different sentence constructions the more they find they can write and the more interesting the results.
4. When everyone has finished, post the pages on the white board or walls and have the students move about looking at the completed worksheets. Don’t allow this to take so long that the activity loses momentum.
5. Sit down again and discuss what the worksheets reveal. This can be an open discussion for more advanced groups or a guided one for lower levels. The following activity is ideal for organizing feedback from this task.

Picked by: Marwa Ahmed
Adapted by: Asmaa Yousry