Subject: World Languages
Lesson Length: 30 - 45 mins
Topic: Greetings
Brief Description: After learning how to greet people in the target language, students will read a sample conversation comic and make a comic of their own.
Know Before You Start: This simple comic can be used as an introduction to greetings in a world language or given as a review with follow up questions.
Hook:
-
Read and discuss the sample comic.
-
Do the student and teacher know each other well?
-
What greetings are used in this comic?
-
-
Model these greetings in the language being taught, e.g., Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese, etc.
-
Introduce or review greetings in other settings, e.g., meeting someone during school lunch, starting a new job, meeting a new teammate, etc.
-
Have students work with a partner to practice introducing themselves in the target language.
Activity:
- Using the sample comic as a guide, have students create a comic in which they introduce themselves to another character in the target language.
-
Have each character use a greeting and a question.
-
Students may choose to change the setting of the comic or add more characters. Have them think about how that might change the conversation.
-
Facial expressions and actions should the conversation.
Closure:
-
Have students show their finished comics and read them aloud.
Differentiation:
- 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.
Resources:
- Comic to print or display: Comic.
Make a comic about Elementary School
Make a comic about Middle School
Make a comic about Playgrounds
Make a comic about The Mall
Make a comic about Restaurants
Make a comic about Office Jobs
