D/D Describe and Draw

 Nataliya Maslova from Turkey is the project leader.  Contact her with questions about joining this cool project at nataliyateacher21@gmail.com.

Description Objectives     Phases / timeline Resources

 DD – Application (Google Form link)

Please join the private Facebook group for this project if you want to participate.

Description
Write a description of yourself and a student in another country will make a drawing of you. You do the same with your partner: read his/her description and draw a portrait for him/her. Below is an example of how a student used this description to draw her partner’s face.
 “My hair is brown and long and wavy. I have no fringe at all I comb my hair backward and I wear a broad red ribbon, my eyelashes are long and dark brown. The eyebrows are brown. My eyes big and brown. The shape of my face is long and my cheeks are a little round. My mouth is red with rather thick lips. I am pale and I like to wear a blue t-shirt.”

Portrait drawn by Arianna (Italy). They have been both very skilled in describing and in drawing.

  

 

Age group
This project is for any age group. (It’s suitable for EFL students at the basic level.)

Objectives
Join this project and let your students learn how to write an accurate description and how to draw a portrait following what their partners have written. It’s a project that promotes responsibility among students; commitment, and respect of the timeline. Frequent contacts are essential, because the classes are reciprocally dependent on one another. Read more in “Objectives“.

Phases
Dates are preliminary, starting sometime in October 2025!

Apply to Join the project no later than – Date?
Send Your Class name list to the project Leader — Date?
Post Your intro to Facebook — Date?
After Project leader pairs the teams, contact your partner teacher – Immediately!
Teacher posts all finished drawings in a Google Doc — Date?

Phase 1 – JOIN THE PROJECT (registrations and school presentations)

  1. Teachers: to participate, please fill in  the Google signup Form (link) in order to be registered in the project. Also Request to join the Facebook group.
  2. Email the project manager a list (or a Google doc) of your students’ names (with name, age and gender of them). 
  3. Write a presentation of your school and group and share by posting it with a photo to the private Facebook Group. This can also be published for all participants to see in a Google Doc if the project manager chooses. 
  4. The project manager pairs the groups. The project manager will email all participating teachers a link of participating schools matched in pairs which the project leader will create a Google doc called: Describe and Draw Team Schools.
  5. Teachers will contact each other in email as soon as the pairs have been made.

Phase 2 – SHARE DESCRIPTIONS (descriptions being written at school and shared)

Teachers instruct their students to write their self descriptions. The individual teachers will send their students descriptions to their partner teacher. The teachers will distribute the descriptions to their students.  Collaborating teachers agree how they would like to do it. We suggest these 2 ways to share descriptions:

Phase 3  SHARE and PUBLISH PORTRAITS (Students draw and share the portraits)

We recognizes that students will al have different drawing abilities and that’s great! But they should commit to follow the directions in the description as much as possible.

Completed drawings can he captured with a photo or scanned. Format must be jpg or gif.

The teacher will collect all of the photos/scans drawn by his or her students in a Google doc such as this example: CLASSROOM Example.

The project manager keeps a log to see that all have got a drawing.

Phase 4: Optional
Students can get in touch with the other students if they want via their teacher’s email.

Information channels
We will inform in our private D/D Project FB Group .