EDUC 3010 Language Arts and Enrichment Activities

1 EDUC 7710 Literature & Language Arts Popular Culture – Comic (Doraemon) Lesson Plan

Student-teachers: Chan Suet Ming, Shekie 11438320 Wong Chi Kwan, Denise 11438428 Wong Chui Shan, Stephanie 11438436

Date: 29th February, 2012 Time: 45 minutes Class: P.4 Topic: Using Popular Culture (comics) Language focuses: 1. Features of comics – direction, speech bubbles, captions, sound effects, illustrations and thinking bubbles 2. Let students create their own comics by filling in the speech bubbles, thinking bubbles or sound effects

Previous knowledge: 1. Students have watched the cartoon before and known the characters in Doraemon very well 2. Students have learnt present tense, past tense and future tense

Suitability of the lesson: The target students of this lesson are P.4 students from a primary school with average English proficiency

Learning objectives: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to 1. recognize the format and language features of comics. 2. use appropriate formats, conventions and language features when writing comics. 3. use the simple present tense, simple past tense or future tense appropriately to express feelings, thoughts, conditions or actions in their comics.

Materials and resources: Lesson PowerPoint, worksheets, copies of Doraemon comics and movie clips from one of the episodes of Doraemon 2 Teaching procedures: Ste Time Teacher’s activities Students’ Interactio Purpose p activities n 1 Lead-in activity 1min T shows a picture of Ss answer T’s T Ss Arouse Ss’ interest the time machine in questions and recall Ss’ Doraemon and ask memory of Doraemon Ss questions (e.g. series and activate What is it? How can their related schema we use it? Who has this time machine?) 2 Revisit the tense patterns 2min T shows the Ss answer T’s TSs To prepare Ss for the sentences on ppt and questions task asks Ss to give the correct forms of tense according to the time 3 Teach relationship 3min T shows the Ss answer T’s TSs To prepare Ss for the characters in questions task Doraemon and teaches Ss the relationship, e.g. husband and wife 4 Cartoon time 4min T plays the first half Ss watch the TSs Draw Ss attention to of one of the cartoon the resolution of the episodes of without sound cartoon so as to Doraemon without and answer provide Ss with a sound and asks Ss to T’s questions context for the task think about some orally questions before playing it (e.g. What time will Nobita & Doraemon go, in the past or future? 3 What/Who does Nobita see there? Who is the ugly woman?)

T asks Ss the questions after the movie and writes their answers on the board.

5 10min Teach features of Ss listen to T comics and answer Ss are given copies the questions T Ss Let Ss be exposed to of the comic more English texts T reads aloud the with interests and comic and asks if understand more they can find where about how meaning is the speech bubbles, constructed in comics thinking bubbles or sound effects are

6 Create comics 15min T tells Ss that Nobita T  Ss doesn’t want to have an ugly wife so he will say something to Shizuka. T asks Ss to create a new dialogue for them

T shows an example To prepare them for of filling in the the task speech bubbles before Ss do the task

T asks Ss to form Ss form Ss  Ss To consolidate what groups of 3 to fill in groups of 3, Ss have learnt about and do the future tense and 4 the speech bubbles, task provide Ss with a thinking bubbles or chance to create a sound effects using comic appropriate tenses in the comics they create

To help Ss develop T reminds Ss to edit good habits of writing their work before submitting

7 Sharing 5min T invites groups to Ss present TSs + Let Ss appreciate share their work with their comics Ss  Ss others’ work and learn others and vote for from each other T asks Ss to vote for the favourite the best one one 8 Conclusion 5min T plays the ending of Ss watch the T Ss To check their the cartoon and cartoon understanding and concludes the lesson consolidate their by asking a few learning questions about the features of comics