Level: High Intermediate to Advanced IEP/ESL
50-minute class
Grammar Focus: Adjectives/Descriptors for Compare and Contrast Writing
Skill Focus: Writing, Listening, Speaking, and Reading
Socio-linguistic Focus: Cultural uses of color
Aim: Describe an action or a feeling through the use of color and color combinations.
Previous Work:
Movie Worksheet with vocabulary
4 Movie Magic mosaics
4 Edited Descriptive Compare & Contrast Paragraphs that compliment Movie Magic Mosaics on blog
Pre-task Warmer:
Pull up student/class blog featuring mosaics and edited paragraphs. Ask students to take a moment to read over his/her print out of edited posts and look over them silently before they are to read them aloud to the class in order to receive constructive criticism of the mosaics and how he/she came to create the work. Students can also read directly from the blog post projected in the classroom.
Task:
15 minutes a piece:
Each student will stand by his/her 4 mosaics (either posted on the wall or projected from the blog posting) and read aloud his/her descriptive paragraphs while the class looks at the mosaics and listens to the writing. Then fellow classmates will give the student feedback on how he/she did on contextualizing the assignment.