Description: Surprisingly simple instructions yield complexly
creative results!
ESL Student Level: Beginner +
Examples from low-level adult ESL students
MATERIALS NEEDED
Old magazines with a variety of pictures/topics
Tape or glue
Paper (poster size or booklet size)
Scissors
INSTRUCTIONS--A
Students can work alone, in pairs, or in small groups.
Each author/author group receives a folder containing a set of
magazine pictures. A story must be created using at least 5 of those
pictures (characters can be "melded" -- e.g. all young boys in the set
are John even though they have different faces).
If more than one author, the storytelling must be equally shared.
INSTRUCTIONS--B
Students can work alone, in pairs, or in small groups.
Each author/author group receives a stack of magazines and selects a
minimum of 4-5 interesting pictures which are then used to tell a story.
Leslie Opp-Beckman, Technology Coordinator and ESL Instructor
E-mail:
leslieob@uoregon.edu 5212 University of
Oregon,
American English Institute Eugene, Oregon 97403-5212 USA
Leslie Opp-Beckman, copyright 1994-2003. Permission to copy
and
distribute for in-class, non-profit use only.
URL: http://www.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html
This page last updated: 13 August 2003
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