Here's a short description of the activities you can find on this page. Preliminary step Put various objects that are on your desk at home or in the office apart from the books you normally bring to class, and place them on the table.
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.