I often use comics in the last 15 minutes of the lesson, as it is a creative and fun activity.
www.storyboardthat.com allows one to make his/her own comics, by using the given background and characters, and then download and print them. I either gave my pupils-who were in groups of 2 or 3- the freedom to write whatever they thought that the characters said or I gave them a set situation e.g. they are looking for a holiday destination. Even the weakest and most bored pupils found this activity fascinating and were helped by the other members of their group in expressing themselves in English.
A short text about the story of Romeo and Juliet also inspired me to use a comic with these famous characters, which I took from www.grammarmancomic.com .I erased the characters’ lines and my question was: “What were their real thoughts?” My teenagers’ ideas surprised me. .
Romeo and Juliet comic
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