Show and Tell Presentation Template

Name of your writing activity:

Dialogue Bubble Activity

Teaching Context
Level of students Grade Level
beginner ◆intermediate advanced Middle School 1 Middle School 2
mixed level Middle School 3
◆High School 1 High School 2 High
Number of Students School 3
<10 10-20 ◆20-40
Class Time
Other; please specify __________ ◆Regular Class Afterschool Class
50 min 90 min Other; please
specify __________

Activity Description
What writing skills does this activity teach?
•to make a story based on the pictures given
•to practice to write for functional everyday language

List steps/instructions required to perform this activity.

1. Look in newspaper or magazine.
2. Find the faces of famous people.
3. Cut the faces out and paste it into the paper
4. Draw speech bubbles for each.
5. Invent a conversation and write the speech each person is saying in the matching bubbles.

Rationale
Why would you use this writing activity in your classroom?
•To encourage the students to write by providing the familiar sources happening around them.
•To help them to be creative about writing.
•To give them the chance to write down the conversational dialogue related to pictures.

Could this activity be easily adapted to different teaching contexts? If so how? If not, why not?
I don’t think it can be adapted for the lower level students. It is because this activity can be successfully
applied only if the students are at least able to make a sentence. However, it can combine writing with
speaking if letting students talk each other to make a story and present it to the class.
Activity Strengths Activity Weaknesses

Intriguing because it can be related to Not easy to make a story for the lower level
artistic work. students

Can link familiar resources to writing. Hard to find the appropriate pictures