1. which Chinese city, province or zone they want to write about.

2. Get the students to discuss their choices with other groups and make sure that each group will be writing about a different place.

3. Once the students have decided on a place, ask them to discuss what topics they will write about and in what order they will write about them.

Here are some examples of topics.

Topics Features Location Climate Geography History Population Production Culture Step 2

1. Get the students to give each person in the group one of the topics from the list to write a paragraph about.

when everyone has finished, ask the students to read the paragraphs aloud in the correct order, making suggestions for improving each others' writing and check each others' spelling, punctuation and grammar.