Level:
Pre-Intermediate- Advanced
Skills:
Writing
- The teacher shows the
class an interesting picture. A picture of an interesting scene or person
works well (see example).
- Ask the students to
think of questions that cannot be answered from the picture. i.e. Siapa
namanya? (What’s her name?) Dari mana? (Where’s she from?) The more
creative the better the writing will be later so really push the students to
make questions in the target language. You should try to get about 20
questions for a low level class and about 30 for a high level class covering
everything from hobbies, job, family and hopes for the future.
- After brainstorming the
questions and writing them on the board, students form small groups and think
of answers to all the questions. These are creative answers from the students’
ideas but try to encourage them to be sensible.
- After they have answered
all the questions, have the students work individually to write a story using
the information they brainstormed as a group.
- After writing their
response, the students can then check and read each others’ writing.
- Finally the students can
write their stories out neatly or type them and they can be displayed along
with the picture on the classroom wall.
Note:
This could also be done
individually or in pairs where students are given different pictures and
complete the same process except that they swap their questions and answers with
another group.
The writing could be used
to construct family trees, posters or a class book. | 
