It’s particularly useful for mixed-level classes-everyone can participate in the activity, and then students can write sentences about it that are simple or complex depending on their language proficiency.
Those sentences can then be used for a myriad of other follow-up activities. The LEA describes a lesson in which the entire class does a common activity (playing a game, watching a video, anything), and then the teacher leads students in a process of writing about it.
Two that contributors to this series don’t mention and are ones I like to use often are the Language Experience Approach (LEA) and Total Physical Response (TPR).
