Name
Creating a comic strip with free-time activities vocabulary
Topic
Collaborative learning
Learning time
2 hours
Designed time
2 hours and 10 minutes
Size of class
24
Description
The students review and reinforce free time activities vocabulary in English creating a comic strip by means of an online educational comic generator. They work in small groups and create their final product in collaborative learning mode.
Aims
The students will be able to use free-time activities vocabulary; they will write effective dialogues.
Outcomes
Uncategorised
Editor
doe
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At home: Watching short videos and reading dialogues and comic strips
30 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    30
    1
    0
    Read Watch Listen This part of the lesson is based on a series of short videos and other digital contents the teacher has previously put together on a blendspace (TES Teach, https://www.tes.com/lessons) for the students. Each student watches the videos and reads the dialogues and the comic strips on a blendspace. Then he/her writes down the vocabulary used in the reference materials.
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In class: Receiving instructions about the work
10 minutes)
  • Discuss
    10
    4
    0
    The teacher places students in groups of four and gives them clear instructions about the work. The students discuss and choose the situational context (a free time activity) for the comic street. Each group is given a character for the comic strip. The members of each group jointly choose their character.
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At home: Creating the comic strip
90 minutes)
  • Produce
    45
    4
    0
    The students use a free online educational comic generator (Make Baliefs Comix, http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/; Toondoo, http://www.toondoo.com/) and start creating the comic strip. Each group of four creates the character's physical and social traits. At this point the written production starts. Each group uses the vocabulary recorded during the acquisition phase and inserts the words, thoughts and feelings into his character's speech bubbles in the comic strip.
  • Collaborate
    45
    4
    0
    The members of each group collaborate while writing the words, thoughts and feelings into the character's speech bubbles in the comic strip. All the students update each other holding follow-ups at every step of the work in progress because they share a single account between multiple users. At the end of this stage the students put the comic strip on the blendspace (TES Teach, https://www.tes.com/lessons), where the teacher can check it. The teacher evaluates if the students have taken decisions together and if their work has been interdependent.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0

Learning Experience

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