Hello! I took this day to think about this week's assignment and this is the result! I had more and different ideas as I was about to save it, but I thought I would leave it like this for now and see how this first draft one mine goes. This activity is thought and designed for a summer school, hoping to find a way to engage and motivate a group of teenagers. Thank you for taking the time to take a look at it.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GFzzGJ6OhIqvT2URRUFqN6x3bBm1r-yZ/view?usp=sharing
Very engaging activity, Alex!
ReplyDeleteI like the metalinguistic reflection.
I love the idea of getting students think of summer, of allowing them to do so then work on language. And the summer-related visual prompts!That's why maybe I'd rather postponing reflection and explanation until the end, not to spoil the fun kind of. To provide the necessary info to form comparatives you could show a couple of examples or elicit a sentence, then take it from there.
ReplyDeleteAlso, to help eliciting adjectives and provide a visual prompt at the beginning, you could use a word cloud with a summer-related background mask. You can make one with: wordclouds.com - Free online word cloud generator and tag cloud creator
Hope you don't mind my long comment!
The man on the beach make me chuckle. I work with young learners in Korea. Many of them wearing full-body swimming suits. One thing that I might include is a list of adjectives that can be given to the students after they have done the brainstorm. I would do this just in case they start to day-dream about being outside instead of being inside.
ReplyDeleteIs this a power point or is there a handout as well?
Laura Ferroglio I don't mind at all! Thank your for your precious advice! I always prefer to start from the students, that is why I chose to start my activity with their own thoughts about summer. The idea was to go from general thoughts to adjectives describing summer and then from there to slowly lead them towards the grammar rule and its application. I do reckon that the practice provided is not enough and yes, I should add examples and exercises, thank you. I LOVE the idea of adding a wordcloud, thank you, that is brilliant! Again, loved your peer review! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteRhett Burton thank you for your suggestions! As for the brainstorming.. maybe at the end of the lesson/activity. I based this activity on my students ( that is why the boy is wearing swimming trunks on the beach:-) and when I work with them on brainstorming I usually ask them do work individually and then we share the different ideas on the board, so at the end of this activity they would actually have a list of different adjectives that they could add to their work. This is supposed to be a Handout to give to the students and also a PPT to project on the board to explain/correct the activities. Loved reading your comments, thanks again!
ReplyDeletemarianna casoria Thank you for your comment!
ReplyDeleteMiss Alex The reason i was wondering if was a printout or a ppt is because of all the colors and the size layout (widescreen). I often print very colorful resources too. I have to set my printer to draft so my printer doesn't jam. Jams happen when the ink weakens the paper.
ReplyDeleteMiss Alex Oh yes, that is exactly what I liked about your activity (starting from students' experience then moving on to rules and practice). My point was that if you moved the rules (the table with the adjectives) at the end, students would have more time to work rules out for themselves. As they are going to need to know something about comparatives to do the next task, you could give them a "taster" with short examples after asking them about their thoughts. Sorry if I was not clear in my previous post. Have you tried the activity out yet?
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the materials. They made me feel like going on a beach holiday! What a lot you've managed to do using a few quotations as a starting point! I was unable to comment in Google so I'll make some comments here. (1) Would you use these materials online or in a printed form? (I'm just curious). (2) In Exercise 3, I think it would be a good idea to add an example in each column. Examples are the best way of supporting understanding. (3) The materials are attractive and colourful but some students might need to have a 'simpler' version with fewer fonts and colours. You know your students of course! But this is always something to keep in mind especially with cursive scripts without much space between lines such as the one use in the 'postcards' in exercise 5.
ReplyDeleteMiss Alex I just saw your reply to Rhett (PPT and worksheet). This is interesting because apparently the fonts and colours etc. that are best for ppt and not the same as those for a printed page. I'll find some information about this and share it.
ReplyDeleteLots of interesting summer and adjective-related ideas! The quotations part could also be used as inspiration for a poem writing task (or perhaps I think so because I love poems :)
ReplyDeleteMaria Theologidou I need to learn using poems from you, I loved your worksheet!
ReplyDeleteMiss Alex Thanks a bunch once again :) You've already done all the prep work for poem writing, so it was just another idea to the many wonderful ones you've already suggested :)
ReplyDeleteWOW!!! Your work is amazing! Well done!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure your students were motivated both by the topic and the layout! Could you tell me which computer programme you used to prepare the material?