After a year of not formally teaching English at the Language Institute, it feels pretty cool to be back into creating materials, even when it is for Portuguese classes. I am not the teacher, I am just being asked to help make games to teach a certain grammar point or vocabulary set for beginners learning Portuguese. And since the content is pretty much the same, just in another language (verbs and pronouns need to be learned in either language, right?), I can used my ESL ideas to come up with pretty cool games and activities.
There's this pretty cool tool online (free!) to make cartoons characters and create your own comics. However, as cool as it is, it pretty soon became extremely annoying (at least for me) because they were all over Facebook for a little while, at least among my contacts. I was already fed up with that. But Today I needed to make comic strip conversations and thought of Bitstrips. So those annoying cartoons became useful to me (not for senseless FB purposes, though)!!
Comic strips conversations: simple images that represent either a conversation or a short story. You can print them, cut them all and put them in cards. Then ask students to put the story in order and tell the story to the class using the pictures.
What I did this times is images for students to learn "daily routines" such as have lunch, watch TV, sleep, go home, work, go shopping, etc.
Here are just a few I made.
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