Learning English with Comic Life and Garageband

On the second day of summer school, our EAL students worked on their English written and speaking skills. Lynn took them on a stadium tour where they answered questions about the facilities. They used this information to compose a comic strip using applemac programme comiclife. We focused on sentence structure, word order and descriptive language. There were some very creative efforts and as a whole group we talked about English conventions when writing speech. 

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Later in the day the group looked at some sports poems. They discussed what certain lines meant and dissected English sayings/slang. They wrote their own acrostic poems after mind-mapping sports vocabulary. This really helped as they had plenty of ideas to choose from. Some chose to write their poem around dancing, fighting, football and tennis. They used garageband to record their poems, adding sound effects and music. 

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