She keeps track of all my old friends. Have them guess who the descriptions are of. Give each pair or group of students a part of the biography. For the recording exercise, a microphone is necessary. The next student records the answers.
Students watch and answer the questions.
A reader reacts - I've been experimenting with some of your very useful exercises using a word processor to teach EFL writing. For example, if teachers give the students a handout requiring them to type in jumbled sentences, then reorder them using Cut and Paste, the more able students will reorder as they type, and avoid the Cut and Paste stage. This can be overcome if the teacher copies the exercise onto the students' disks before the lesson. It sounds time consuming, but with Windows Explorer it takes less than a minute to copy 20 files. So really we have Cut and Paste X 4.