WEB 2.0 - Didactic Sequence

Hi there! For PW#3 our teacher asked us to create an imaginary didactic sequence including one or more web 2.0 tools. The idea was to organise it following a central task and then to present it to our classmates during a lesson, showing what we would ask our students to do. The grammatical contents to revise were Simple Present, there is/there are and has/have. The vocabulary was 'places in a city' and the functions to teach were describing a city, convincing, inviting.

My classmates and I thought about including videos in the lessons, so we came up with the idea that students, in groups of  3, would have to create a video showing their imaginary favourite city. The aim of the video would be to convince their partners to go to that city by describing it.

After researching into some web 2.0 resources, we found 'Stupeflix', an interesting tool to create videos using photos and adding special musical effects or songs.

We started the lesson by showing students images of Santa Fe city and describing some places, so as to activate squemata, they had a worksheet to match the corresponding pictures to the names of the places as they listened to us describing those places. We checked comprehension by asking questions, for example, Is there any bakery in Santa Fe?. 

Then, we presented posters of places that are and are not present in Santa Fe and in pairs, students had to write sentences telling what places there are and there aren't in the city. The pair who wrote more sentences in 5 minutes was the winner of the competition. We checked by having the pairs reading their productions and asking their mates to say whether those sentences were correct in terms of grammar and meaning.

To finish the lesson and introduce the final task, we showed students a video about our own favourite city; a city we have created with all the places we like.We showed them our production on stupeflix while telling them about the city. Then, we asked them comprehension questions, for example: how many churches are there in our city?.We also asked them if they would go to our city, what they like/don’t like about our city. After that, we told them they would have to make a similar presentation but with their own imaginary favourite city. We asked them to make their city interesting so as to convince their partners to visit it since once presentations were over we would vote for the best city to go to.

Our city was called PARACITY, a city to spend our holidays, and this amazing resource allowed us to create a video using text and photos... you can try this tool www.stupeflix.com, it is really useful when it comes to design videos by using photographs.