MY CLASSMATE

After interviewing your classmate in the exercise Interview a Classmate, you now have a lot of information. Write a text about your classmate, a portrait.

Write your text in third person narrative, which means you use he or she when you write about your classmate. For example: His name is Jack, and he loves playing basketball. This is my classmate Olivia. She wants to have a dog when she gets older.

You are writing an informal text so you may be personal and include your own thoughts.You could for instance write: Did you know that … or A funny thing about her is …

Make sure to include at least three pieces of information about your classmate in your portrait.

A text about Parisa could start like this: This is my friend Parisa. She is 12 years old and she thinks that pizza is the best food you can eat. She describes it like this, bread – which is good – and you can also put whatever you want on it.You can use only vegetables if you want, or different kinds of meat. And then there is cheese – which is also good.’ Parisa likes pizza so much because you can make it different every time. It never gets boring.

A funny thing about Parisa is that she has been to Italy and she learned to make pizza there …