Picture Sets for Writing Picture for Whole-class Discussion of Writing
c What jobs do the two people have? d Will the people have children? When? How many?
e Have you ever been to a wedding? Was it like Debbie’s? The groups share the result and the teacher write necessary words and idioms,
again on the board. 3. The class reads a paragraph describing Debbie Johnson’s traditional wedding:
Debbie Johnson and Frank Willett had a traditional wedding last Saturday. The bride wore her grandmother’s veil and her mother’s wedding dress,
which was made of white satin. She wore her sister’s necklace and carried a bouquet of blue flowers – so she had the bride’s traditional “something old,
something new, something borrowed something blue”. She had six bridesmaids. They wore long dresses of flowered blue lace. The bridegroom
and the bride’s father were wearing traditional morning suits – a black jacket and grey pants. The couple was married in church and the bride’s parents
held a reception for 100 guests at their home. The students examine the paragraph and determine which sentence makes the
main point. 4. Then, students imagine that they are Debbie Johnson writing a letter a friend
abroad, six month before, telling her what the wedding will be like. Students can take sentences from the paragraph before and change the subjects. For
example, the couple becomes we, the bride’s parents becomes my parents, etc. 5. Small groups discuss and write a description about the wedding for a local
newspaper, and then the other groups make comments and suggestions. 6. After discussion, students are asked to describe a typical traditional wedding
in their country, or in Indonesia, in provinces.