Objective :  To enable students to communicate using personal
            information

 Skills :     Speaking-Listening-Reading-Writing

 Level :      Mixed

 Content :    Personal information, friends

 Time :       50 minutes
 

 Preparation :

            Hardware:  one computer per group of 3 students

            Software:  a standard word-processor

            Knowledge: teacher and students--basic word-
                       processing

 Procedure :
 Pre-computer work :

1. Distribute interview sheets.
            2. Get students in each group to ask each other the
               following personal questions:
                 a. first name
                 b. nickname
                 c. last name
                 d. address: street and number
                 e. telephone number
                 f. date of birth
                 g. place of birth
                 h. height
                 i. weight
                 j. hobbies

Computer-work :

            1. Students go to the Resource Center and write a
               profile of the student they have interviewed.  The
               writing will be done in groups of three.  Each
               group writes three profiles.
            2. Students edit, save, and print out the profiles.

Post-computer work :

               Each group checks the three profiles for accuracy
               before handing them in to the teacher.

Evaluation :  10 points

                        INTERVIEW SHEET
 

1.  What's your first name?

    ______________________________________________

2.  What's your nickname?

    ______________________________________________

3.  What's your last name?/  How do you spell it?

    ______________________________________________

4.  Where do you live?/ What's your address?

    ______________________________________________

5.  Tell  me  your  telephone number.   What's  your  telephone
    number?

    ______________________________________________

6.  When were you born?/  When is your birthday?

    ______________________________________________

7.  Where were you born?

    ______________________________________________

8.  How tall are you?

    ______________________________________________

9.  How much do you weigh?

    ______________________________________________

10. What are your hobbies?/  What do you like to do in your
    free time?/  Do you play tennis?/ etc.

    ______________________________________________
 
 

                  MY FRIENDS
 

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     Instructions:  In groups of three, use your interview
                    sheets and write three profiles of the
                    friends in your group.
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     Example:

                        SUDA SUKJAI
 

             The friend I have interviewed is Suda Sukjai.
     Her nickname is Nid.  She lives at 117 Ladprao 112.  Her
     telephone number is 5147987.  Nid was born on May 2, 1973
     in Bangkok.  She is 155 centimeters tall and weighs 47
     kilos.  Nid likes to play table-tennis.  She also loves
     to swim in her free time.
 
 

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     Now write your three profiles on the computer.
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     Have you edited your profiles?  If not, go back
     and do it now.  If you have, save your text.
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