Matthew Walsh's
EFL ESL website
'The Secret
Journal'
We will give you a notebook. Please write a secret name,
and your class number on the cover. (All year, never write your real
name! )
Example: ‘Blackjack’
(Class 1), or ‘Rose’ (Class 2)
You will write to a student in another class.
You will not know who
they are.
You may write about anything you want.
At the end of your entry, please
ask your partner a few questions.
Don't forget to bring the notebook back to class after you've finished
your turn!
We will collect the notebooks from you and then take them to the other
class.
We will not look in the notebook; It is private.
The only
rule is no Japanese, only English.
If you don't understand your partner's English, ask them
when you write
them back.
Example:
You said
that you don't like to (--------). What does (----------) mean? Do you
mean you don't like (---------)?
Since we need time to collect them and give them to the other class,
you
will write every other week.
Don't
forget to write.
Don't
forget to bring the notebook back to school.
If
you do. the other person will be disappointed. :(
Let's have fun
writing English about something real!