Boundless English Campus Scheme

Thank you for your interest in the captioned scheme. In this file, you will find the materials of the Second issue (Cartoons) of the scheme. They are:

Materials Page a) a sample page of the board materials on the canvas p. 2

(For schools who applied for the scheme, the canvas was delivered to you. Please refer to this page to paste the materials on the canvas.)

b) Board content (please refer to item (a)) i) Title page p. 3 - 4 ii) Our World p. 5 iii) EC Updates p. 6 – 7 iv) Reading Corner p. 8 – 9 v) Feature p. 10 - 17

c) Lesson Plan for carrying out fun and interactive online activities related to p. 18 - 20 Cartoons

Teaching Plan for Cartoons Boundless English

Time One double lesson (80 minutes) Objectives Encourage students’ self-access online learning of English; Inform students about cartoons and comics using English; Keep students motivated to visit the Boundless English board; Encourage students’ critical thinking skills through a debate and creativity through writing comic strips. Target language Vocabulary related to cartoons, including character, comic strip and speech bubble.

1-2 days before the lesson 1. Make sure that the Boundless English notice board has been put up in school

2. Check that you can connect to the English Campus website and that the audio is working in the classroom

3. Ask students to choose their favourite cartoon character. They can do research at this website - www.toonopedia.com/ .

4. Print comic strips from ‘Garfield minus Garfield’ - http://www.gocomics.com/garfieldminusgarfield , enough for students to have 3 choices.

Lesson 1 (Single lesson – 40 minutes)

Time Activities Notes 5 mins Naming race As a warm up, ask three students to come to the front This is a good chance to check of the class. They have one minute to name as many pronunciation of names. Some cartoon or comic characters as possible. students don’t say the ends of words clearly. Ask one student to be timekeeper and another student to keep score. You could have a few rounds. 3 mins Set up the projector and load the Cartoons website at English Campus. A student could do this, allowing you to ask the class about their Put down the blinds, etc. favourite cartoons.

Make sure the audio is working 12 Show the class the English Campus Cartoons mins website.

Ask students their opinions of Audrey and Jensen’s art. You could let students decide what Also click on ‘Local Knowledge’ and ask students what to look at on the website. they think of the artwork.

Click on ‘Our World’. Read about Ozgur. Ask students, “Would an exchange student enjoy studying in our school?”

52 Balloon debate mins Ask students to go into groups of 6 or 7. Ask them to Balloon debates are very popular choose their favourite cartoon or comic character. activities in Western schools. (e.g. http://www.eslcafe.com/idea/index Show students the image of a hot air balloon. .cgi?display:1018789863- 29100.txt) Tell them that their cartoon characters are in the balloon but it is falling. One character must jump out to Each student must have a different save the others. They must debate to save themselves. character. e.g. Garfield, Snoopy, Bart Simpson, Shrek, Donald There will be two rounds. Duck, Power Puff Girl Round 1 – Each character gives 4-5 reasons why they should stay in the balloon. This is role play so the students become these characters. Round 2 – Each student names 2-3 characters who they think should leave the balloon. They give reasons. To make it fair, the characters Those characters can respond to the arguments. don’t have any super powers in the e.g. ‘Hello Kitty should leave because she shows no balloon, so no one can say, “You emotion. Her face cannot move!’ jump! You can fly!”

They have about five minutes to plan before each e.g. Spiderman – “I am not rich round. Remind students that good presentations include like most super heroes. Mary Jane eye contact and humour. loves me and will miss me. If I jump, my enemies will try to kill You can choose whether students use notes. It is better my auntie. Only I can stop them. I that there are no notes in the second round to encourage can clean your windows easily.” impromptu speaking. You could give out the comic Each group has a vote at the end to decide which strips for the next activity if character leaves. groups finish early. 8 mins Homework Go back to the Cartoons website. Click on ‘Links’ and You could show other strips from ‘Read Garfield and more comic strips online’. Show Go Comics as examples, such as the class a comic strip without Garfield then with ‘Winnie The Pooh’ and ‘Calvin Garfield. and Hobbes’

Tell them they must add Garfield to a comic strip that you will give out. They should draw Garfield and add his speech bubbles. They can also add other characters.

Hand out the ‘Garfield minus Garfield’ strips. Give students a few minutes to discuss their strips in pairs.

Put the strips on the notice board when they are handed in.