Do you have some English language magazines and you don`t know what to do with them? Here is a great tip for you!
Level: upper intermediate or advanced
Skills: reading,speaking, listening and writing
Materials needed: a magazine and writing paper
Instructions:
Bring a magazine to class and show the students the picture of an article. Tell them that the objective of the activity is to guess the content of the article. Split the students into small groups. Display on the board some key questions to trigger their creativity (the teacher needs to prepare some interesting questions beforehand to help students give some direction to their stories). Give them some minutes to brainstorm all the ideas. Later, have groups report their ideas to the whole class. Provide students with a copy of the article and have them read it. As a follow-up, the class can briefly discuss the similarities and differences between their versions of the story and the actual one.
* If time allows, students can write their version of the story before they actually get to read the original story.
* Variation: instead of using a magazine, visit a news website and print a recent article or story.
Source: Vinicius Lemos
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