At a Glance:
| Grades: | 7, 8, 9 |
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| Subject: | World Languages |
| Topic: | Conversational Vocabulary |
| Lesson Length: | 45 - 60 mins |
Standards / Framework:
What will students learn in this activity?
Students will create a comic taking the reader through a typical day in their life.
What should students know before this activity?
Students should have some knowledge of greetings and basic conversational vocabulary in the target language.
How can teachers introduce this lesson?
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Read and discuss the sample comic. Ask questions about the comic in the target language:
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What are some of the things the main character does during the day?
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Do you do any of these things as well?
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Which activities seem fun?
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Which do not?
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Have students pair up and discuss their daily lives in the target language.
What will students do?
- Using the sample comic as a guide, have students create a four-to-five-panel comic describing their daily lives in the target language.
How can teachers wrap up the lesson?
- Have students show their finished comics and read them aloud.
How can teachers differentiate this activity?
- Allow students to use speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
- Provide a printed copy of the sample comic.


