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Writing Skills Activity for English Learners

This document provides an activity to practice writing skills for students learning English. The activity focuses on describing and comparing people, objects, and places using adjectives. Students will identify characteristics in texts, ask and answer questions to compare people and things, and use grammar structures for descriptions. The learning goals are vocabulary for descriptions as well as descriptive, comparative, superlative, and irregular adjectives. The instructor's approach emphasizes accuracy to eliminate errors from written work. The activity then has students underline descriptive words, read descriptions, and write their own self-description.

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Writing Skills Activity for English Learners

This document provides an activity to practice writing skills for students learning English. The activity focuses on describing and comparing people, objects, and places using adjectives. Students will identify characteristics in texts, ask and answer questions to compare people and things, and use grammar structures for descriptions. The learning goals are vocabulary for descriptions as well as descriptive, comparative, superlative, and irregular adjectives. The instructor's approach emphasizes accuracy to eliminate errors from written work. The activity then has students underline descriptive words, read descriptions, and write their own self-description.

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UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CHIAPAS


FACULTAD DE TAPACHULA
CAMPUS IV

LICENCIATURA EN INGLES

ASIGNATURA:
DIDÁCTICA DE LAS HABILIDADES PRODUCTIVAS:
EXPRESIÓN ESCRITA Y ORAL

4° SEMESTRE GRUPO “A”

ASESORA:
MTRA. ADRIANA VÁSQUEZ LÓPEZ

ACTIVIDAD:
ACTIVITY TO WORK THE WRITING SKILL

A L U M N O:

LENIN CASTILLEJOS ZAMBRANO

FECHA DE ENTREGA: 26 DE FEBRERO DE 2021


Activity to work the Writing Skill

The students going to learn knowledge, and basic skills that are necessary to describe
and compare people, objects, and places, and to exchange information in written way
about: appearance, personalities, and emotions. This knowledge will allow you to
describe yourself, other people and places in a communicative context. The students:
• Identifies cultural aspects in a simple text. Identifies people, places, and objects
characteristics in a short text.
• Asks and exchanges information in an oral and written way to compare people, objects,
and places according to the communicative intention.
• Uses grammar structures to describe and compare according to the communicative
situation.

Learning goals:
1. Vocabulary of characteristics of people, objects, and places.
2. Descriptive Adjectives
3. Comparative Adjectives
4. Superlative Adjectives
5. Comparison Adjectives
6. Irregular Adjectives

My approach
The approach I chose was Focus on Accuracy, this is an approach that emphasizes the
importance of control to eliminate errors from written work. Students are taught how to
write and combine various types of sentences and manipulation exercises are used to
give them the experience of writing connected sentences.
I. Underline the words that describe you the best.
Appearance Personality
Age Height Weight Hair Eyes Imaginative Introverted Motivated
Young Tall Thin Long Big Reliable Adaptable Easy-going
Old Short Chubby Short Small Confident Friendly Optimist
Elder Average- Heavy Curly Brown Adventurous Sociable Pessimist
height Slim In- Straight Black Reserved Determined Generous
goodshape Wavy Blue Kind Talkative Quiet
Black Green Funny
Blonde
Brown
Note: You can use light or dark to point out the color of the hair or eyes: brown, light brown,
dark brown.

II. Look at the following description.

Hi, I am Shannon. I am 16 years old.


I am a short and chubby person.
I have straight short and orange hair.
I have big blue eyes.
I am a very imaginative and sociable person.

III. Make a description about yourself.

Hi. I am _______________. I am _____ years old.


I am a _______________ and _______________
person.
I have ______________________________ hair.
I have ____________________ eyes.
I am a ___________________________________
person.
IV. Read the text and underline the words that are used to describe people.

Hello, I´m Steve. I´m a college student. Well, I am tall and athletic. I play
different sports: basketball, football, and soccer. I have brown hair and light
brown eyes. My friends say I´m friendly and nice. I am very open. I love
discussing interesting ideas and meeting new friends.

V. Write your own presentation and description according with the previous text.
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