The Unit that I will Change in the BOOK

The book's name is Introduction to Academic Writing.

Written by: Alice Oshima and Ann Hogue.


I chose the first unit: Writing about People.



Madonna Michael Jordan


In the book, there are two parts for the first activity.

You have to discuss with a partner two pictures of famous people.

For you to know, some questions are:

1. Where does he or she live?

2. What other facts do you know about this person?

3. How this person influenced other people in either a positive or a negative way?


After that students are have to choose a person and write about them if they really like them or not and why.
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

Now, I want to show you how I will change this unit.


(Considering famous people, and the writing task as a part of the unit, I really want to keep that in the activity)

In pairs, students have to search on the net looking for a brief video about a famous person that they like or do not like. BUT students can not say who did they choose.

Then, the rest of the class has to ask them questions about the famous person, in order to guess the famous person's name.

Then, when they found out who is that person, they show the video to the class. And after that, they explain to the class why did they chose that particular person.

And as a second part of this activity, they have to write a letter to that famous person saying if they really like them or not.