Objective/ product |
Students draw, in cartoon form, the
events and situations at a party they hear described by a
fellow learner, the teacher, or another informant.Details
described may include how many people were outside and
inside the house, how many of them were doing various
activities (dancing, drinking, eating, watching videos,
singing), and where the activities were taking place. Followup: the accuracy of the drawings is checked. |
Materials needed |
No special materials are required; the visual presenter may be used for display of drawings. |
Procedures for traditional classroom |
The procedure is simple; learners
listen and draw individually. It may be a good idea to
repeat the listening several times, asking the students
to refrain from drawing until they have listened once all
the way through. Followup stage: Since in the traditional classroom it may be difficult to display a single drawing for everyone to see, learners may exchange drawings and compare details in L1 or L2. |
Adaptations for ITV |
No adaptation of this activity is
necessary for its use in the ITV classroom. In the followup stage, the visual presenter of the ITV classroom provides an advantage over equipment available in the traditional classroom.The teacher can gather and display student cartoons from the originating site anonymously and at random, and invite anyone to use the target language to point out differences between the displayed cartoon and the description that was heard. This kind of "anonymous peer correction" is non-threatening, since the authors of the drawings are not identified. |