My Life by Paul Ashe Age: Young learners Level: Elementary – Pre-Intermediate Objective: To provide a framework for students to compile an autobiography in English. To practise/revise the present simple, past simple, going to, will, present perfect Time: As required Key skills: Writing Materials: One copy of the My Life template per student. One copy of the prompt questions per student. Warmer: You might want to produce your own autobiography first in order to show students and create interest in the project. This will also act as a way for students to get to know you before you get to know them through their autobiography. Procedure: 1. Make enough copies of the prompt questions for one per student. Divide students into pairs and tell them to ask one another the questions for Chapter 1. 2. Once they have finished asking and answering the questions get students to write their answers to the questions but in continuous prose. They will need to connect sentences to create a complete text. The questions are simply prompts to help students with the content. Encourage students to add any extra information not covered by the questions. 3. As students are composing their texts, correct any serious problems and make a note of any problems common to the class. You can use this list of common problems to prepare future lessons on these areas or an error correction activity at the end of the lesson. 4. Once they have completed the rough version of Chapter 1 and it has been corrected, ask them to write it up neatly and add any photos they have to illustrate the chapter. For this you will need to make one copy per student of the My Life template. 5. Repeat steps 1-4 for the other seven chapters. 6. Once the autobiography is complete, bind all the chapters and ask students to review the autobiography of two other people in the class and write a comment at the end. They should also write their name and the date of the review. Encourage students to write what they liked most about the autobiography; what they learnt about this person; what they thought was funny, sad, etc.
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