NEW BLOG

As we enjoyed sharing information through blogs, this time we are posting our personal profiles, including some photos and family videos.

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Teacher´s comment:
This activity enhances students´motivation for writing tasks. Sharing personal information might be fascinating for some students but a nightmare for others. This individual and, at the same time, group task seeks to attract students into expressing themselves and telling others about their hobbies, friends, family or whatever they may think of.
For those who are shy, a screen will result less embarrassing. For those who are eager to tell their whole lives, they will have to think twice in order to organize the information into coherent paragraphs.
Finally, the "little lie" or false information they are asked to include is nothing but an excuse to calll them back to the blog after having posted their own profile and, of course, a reading comprehension activity.
I hope my students show interest in the activity and this idea becomes useful for all of us teachers too.
For further comments, ideas, suggestions, you may contact me at: jcastellion@gmail.com
Thre task follows the writing activity in Matrix Intermediate. Unit 2.