Formative assessment

Justification
Choosing true and appropriate activity for the lesson helps teachers to encourage students to be more active and sensitive in the lesson. Every student in the calssroom is included, even extrovert students have a chance to exlpain their opinions to thier partners easily in small groups. Students highly appreciate group work as a means of learning and preparing for the future life(Gillies, & B7oyle, 2010). In this activity, not only reading skills, but also speaking, listeing are also improved and it may be used when teachers chech homework. It is really useful and interesting acitivity for learners.
Writing activity

Writing is extremely complicated cognitive process. It is one of the most important factors of language. Having strong writing skills may improve learners' opportunities for success. With the help of teachers, learners can enhance their writing skills while learning L2. The writing activities which is used by teachers need to be orginized in a suitable way according to the students' needs and interest(Syed Sarwar Husseyn,2017). Teaching writing skills to the L2 learners with defferent activities makes it easy to comprehend.
Writing about pictures of people
This activity is highly recomended for beginners-intermediate levels. It takes 20-30 minutes of the lesson. In order to be ready for this actitivity, in advance, teachers should collect a set of pictures of people. Pictures are enough for each student or it is better if there are more pictures. These pictures are put on the table before students enter.
Process: Each student select one pictures from table and they get out a blank piece of paper. Some time is given to the students in order to study about their pictures and think about a name for thier person. They sit in groups of five. Then teacher dictates the first question: - Who is this?
Then students write answers and fill in the name they have chosen: This is......... . Students pass the pictureand the picture on to the person sitting next to them. Then dictate a question:
- Where does he/ she lives?
Write the answer: -She/he lives in............. .
Students pass the picture on to the person sitting next to them. Then again dictate:
- What is her/his birthday?
- Her/his birthday is on................. .
Student pass the picture on to the person sitting next to them and dictate:
-What does she/he like or hate?
- She/he likes or hates ..................... .
The procedure is repeated as above. The pictures and papers by now should have returned to the original writers. In their group, read their stories out loud to the group. The group chooses its most interesting story. A spokesperson for group goes to the front of the class amd read the story of their group to the whole class while another student holds up the picture.
Justification
This activity helps students to increace their creativity. While doing it, they share ideas with each other and learn many thing from each other. It is really helpful to improve not only writing, but also speaking and reading. When students exchange sheets, they have a chance to correct their partners' spelling or other mistakes, or they learn through this correction partners have done.

References:

Anderson, N. (1999). Exploring second language reading. Boston:Heinle & Heinle.
Day, R. (Ed.). (1993). New ways in teaching reading. Alexandria,VA: TESOL.
Eva Hammer,Ch. (2011). Managemant of group work as classroom activity. Linköping University.
Syed Sarwar Husseyn(2017). Arab World English Journal 8(2):208-227