Skill: Writing
Topic: Families
Mode: Presentational
Level: Intermediate
Can-Do/Competency: I can write a short letter to a prospective exchange student describing the relationships between my family members, using simple sentences most of the time (NH), simple sentences (IL), connected sentences (IM)
Excerpt: Write a letter to an exchange student describing family relationships in the host family.
Activity components:
Instructions to the teacher:
Students need to write a letter to a prospective exchange student before she arrives telling her about the host family members so that she knows who she will be living with. Students can write it as either a handwritten letter or an email, but it should have an appropriate greeting and closure, and it should describe family relationships (who is older/younger, who tells the others what to do, who is helpful, etc.)
Instructions to students:
Write a letter to a prospective exchange student before she arrives telling her about the host family members so that she knowns who she will be living with. You can write it as either handwritten letter or an email, but it should have an appropriate greeting and closure, and it should describe family relationships (who is older/younger, who tells the other what to do, who is helpful, etc.