Conversations in School

Subject: World Languages

Lesson Length: 45 mins - 1 hour

Topic: Culture, Communication, School, Expression

Grade Level: 10, 11, 12, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Standards / Framework:

Brief Description: Students will use the target language within the classroom to interact and collaborate in their community.

Know Before You Start: Students should have language fluency to conduct basic conversations.

Hook:

Ask students:
- “What are some conversations you might have at school?”
- “What would it be like to be a foreign exchange student?”
- “How could you make a foreign exchange student feel welcome?”

Activity:

As a class, have students share what they and other students talk about at school.
Have students brainstorm different settings for conversations at school and think of a topic of conversation for their comic.
Using the sample comic as a guide, have students create a comic in the target language that portrays a short dialogue between students.

Closure:

Have students share their comics with the class or in small groups.
Have students explain why they chose the conversation topic featured in their comic.
Discuss why it’s important to be able to create dialogue in a different language.
Emphasize that practicing conversations that might happen in schools can help practice for conversations in a different language that might happen elsewhere.

Differentiation:

Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
If students are struggling to create an original script, they may start by writing in English and then translating it into the target language.
Allow students to use digital dictionaries/translators as appropriate for your class policy.

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