Activity #4: Creating a comic strip (www.wittycomics.com)

Level: Pre-Intermediate
Grammar focus: giving and asking for directions
Vocabulary focus: prepositions of direction ('past'; 'along'; 'across'; etc.)
Recycled language: greetings; imperative forms
Brief description of the activity: students are asked to use this website in order to create a comic strip and practise the structures and vocabulary they have learned to give and ask for directions.

Once the students render their productions, the teacher can also ask them to act some out.
This activity is quite interesting since it might help students to fix useful vocabulary and structures in their minds.

A step-by-step guide to use this website:

1- Go to www.wittycomics.com. There, you will see three frames; each of them has
     several scenes and characters to choose from. You can either make different options
     for each frame or design the first one and then duplicate it




2- Below the scene options there is a 'narration' field, where you can write anything about
     the setting, date; etc. There is also a field for the title.




3- You write your text in the corresponding field and it simultaneously appear on the
     scene. There are four different types of bubbles. You need to have an account
     (which is free) in order to save your production.



 4- For some website features plus sample click here.


Students will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

	Poor	Just fair	Good	Very good	Excellent
Usage of tool
Written production
Oral production