Travel Posters
At my school I have an oral communications textbook that I have to follow loosely. The book is broken up into chapters and each chapter focuses on a particular common conversation. I am expected to use those conversations as a jumping off point for developing and creating my own lessons on the topic.
The most recent topic was talking about your hometown, where you are from. I used this as a starting point for creating the travel posters that you see in the photo above.
During the first week students learned basic vocabulary on the topic. Then they used this vocabulary to interview their partner about their hometown. At the end of class I collected the interview papers and sorted students into groups with others that shared the same hometown.
The next week, students were put into their groups and told that they had to create a travel posters advertising their hometown. The guidelines were few, the posters had to have english, include pictures, and use color. What they decided to do from there was okay.
Given the freedom to create a creative product about a topic with which they were all very familiar, I was surprised at what they ended coming up with. The posters are (for the most part) well done. Now, I have them as a rotating exhibit on my hallway bulletin board. Each day I see at least a small group of students stopping to admire their classmates work and reading the English. It makes my little teaching heart go pitter patter.
Once the posters are done being displayed on the bulletin board we will be storing them to use when our foreign exchange students (from Portland) come this fall. The teachers want to hang them up in the hallways so that the exchange students can learn about all the wonderful places in Japan to visit. Should be a fun way to introduce them to this country.
Two comments:
1. It’s fantastic that your fellow teachers appreciate your efforts, like your work and want to use it again in the future. It’s got to be cool that you can do what you love doing in another country, come up with cool assignments, and have the kids get a lot out of them too. Awesome job!!!
2. What, no one’s hometown is home of the cuttlefish coin?
Fried Pork: “Don’t soak this in sauce two times”
Is that the Japanese way of saying “Let us enjoy not double-dipping?”
“Let us enjoy role-playing,scantily-clad hostesses!”
Cuttlefish coin comes from a place listed on no map. A little bit of Cuttlefish coin lives inside each of us, comforting us and guiding us in the right way to go.
May Cuttlefish coin go with you.
And also with you.
Thanks Jill!
I love it when an activity works out just the way I wanted it to. Now, not all of them happen this way, so I must relish in it when it does!!
Nope, I haven’t seen any cuttlefish coins in quite awhile. They seem to be rather elusive these days.
Thanks Marc for pointing out the fried pork description. That was one of my favorites when I first saw the finished posters and you are absolutely right, that is the way the students tried to say, “let us enjoy not double-dipping.” Love That!
NEJ Carlson. Episcopalian?
…that cormarant fiching, kind-of makes me want to barf too….
BUT
do you barf up whole fish???