Zero Conditionals Writing Experts Activity

I came up with this activity for my Elementary group. We use Upbeat Elementary and one of the lessons focuses on personality traits and zero conditionals.

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1. Dictate a sentence to your students. It can be plain nonsense or it can contain a language point of the lesson. Ask them to translate it to their native language and also write it down (because students' English and L1 writings are usually a bit different).

2. Collect the papers, show two of them to the class and ask what the difference is between them. Hopefully they notice the handwriting. Have a little discussion on the topic of writing and personality. Ask them "Do you think you can tell person's character just by looking at their handwriting?"

3. Then distribute the worksheet and tell students there is the "key" for understanding someone's handwriting. First, they need to put sentences in the correct form.

4. After they have done it, distribute the pieces of writing that belonged to other students, ask them to analyze them and write a conclusion on personality of the writer. Some words to check at this point are to slant, average, straight, neat, sloppy

5. In the end, students share their conclusions and think about whether they are accurate.

My students loved it and you can extend it to homework by asking them to analyze the writing of their friends or parents. If you have stronger class, you can ask them to develop their own "test", for example, based on what colour you like or what kind of food your prefer. They can draw it up on a piece of paper (my student love to draw) and test their peers.