Task Challenge #2 - Creating a comic strip

Last Thursday, I proposed challenge #2 which involved students creating a dialogue with vocabulary from the previous units (EDUCATION)

Students were asked to use http://writecomics.com  and use a minimum of 5 new words.


This is a sample created by one of the students.

All the comic strips are being shared at our school wiki (for projects) and will be shared with parents.


How will I give them feedback?

• Well, I've decided to write down some common mistakes and then talk to the class as a whole not mentioning names.

• Common mistakes noticed: some students don't know the right collocations for scholarship, lots of students forgot to use DID in questions in the past, and some of them invented some expressions using literal translation from Portuguese to English. All in all, I guess they did a good job.
  

The 10 tasks CHALLENGE

With the beginning of our semester, we've already started developing little projects with our students. I've got 4 groups of Upper Intermediate students ("I'm the queen of Upper As!) and this semester I plan to propose 10 challenging tasks for them to develop at home apart from doing their traditional workbook exercises.

The tasks aim to help students practise LISTENING, WRITING and SPEAKING. Students will also get the chance to learn how to use different webtools to create content, a skill I believe all our students need nowadays.

As a plus, students will get  to watch tutorials , in English, to learn how to use the tools.

This is what I have in mind:

•  All tasks involve uisng language learned during that week.
• The platform used for sharing is EDMODO and a school blog.

These are the webtools we're going to use:

• VOKI
• WriteComics
• Audioboo
• Fotobabble
• Stixy
• Typewithme
• LiveTyping
• Fodey
• BitStrips