Steps Ask students to form pairs or groups of three. Give out task cards, on which you tell the students which audience they need to be writing a paragraph describing the teacher's desk in the classroom. At the end of the activity, rearrange the class so that each audience type gets into a group. Ask you students to share their solutions. Ask students to reflect on the types of words, expressions they used for the different audiences.
Word usage is another example.
Collect the pieces. The next lesson could be spent re-writing the paragraph again based on the questions asked the last time. Of course there are numerous variations to this activity. You could write for the same audience but in different genres. For instance write a poem, a description, a narrative of the table.