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What are they doing now?
Activity type: Writing personal profiles
Time: 20–25 minutes
Preparation:  Click here to download the sheet with personal profiles. Print it out. Photocopy and cut out one set of personal profiles for each group of eight students.
Procedure: Divide the class into groups of eight students. Hand out one profile slip to each student in every group. Point out that each slip contains information about a different person, including current age, education/background, occupation, and future goals. Tell students to read through the information and deal with any vocabulary issues that may arise. Then ask students to imagine that they are the person on their slip, and it is ten years later. What has happened to them in ten years? Ask them to think for a few minutes and make a few notes. Encourage students to be as creative as possible. If they have trouble getting started, write the following questions on the board:
Are you married? Do you have children?
Who did you marry? How many children do you have?
Did you reach your goal(s)? How? If not, why?
What are some exciting things that have happened to you in the past 10 years?
After a few minutes, tell the groups to imagine that they are old friends who meet after not seeing each other for ten years. Have group members mingle, exchanging information about what they are doing now and what has happened in the past ten years. If necessary, put the following model on the board:
What have you done in the last 10 years?
What have you been up to?
What are you doing now?
Are you married? Do you have any children?
You said you wanted to . . . . Did that ever happen?
What happened to your plans for becoming . . . ?
Option: Have students write an ideal autobiography of themselves ten years from now and then share the information in pairs or small groups.
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