| Body | This activity was designed for intermediate learners of the target language enrolled in a hybrid course. It is one component of a social media campaign that promotes a leisure activity within the community.
Learning Objectives: Learners will be able to:
- Make a presentation about an event, a service, or a product.
- Identify leisure activities within their communities.
- Identify and explain supporting details that are important to sharing information about a leisure activity.
Modes: Presentational Speaking, Interpretive Reading and/or Interpretive Listening
Materials Needed: Instruction and planning sheet, Extended reflection sheet, internet, video and/or voice recording device
Procedure:
- Explain to learners that they will research a leisure activity in their communities using the target language so that they can create a spoken television, radio, or internet ad to promote that activity. If you have not done so already in your class, you may want to connect learners with target-language resources (e.g., radio stations, television channels, and social media resources) that are specific to your community.
- Learners will research the activity. This research could be completed in or out of class.
- As learners research, they will use the instruction and planning sheet to plan their ads. They will mention their target leisure activity, the preparations a person must engage in to participate in the activity, the logistical information that it is important to know when completing the activity, and they will consider the appropriate registers to use for their target audiences. All of this detailed information is important to conveying the necessary information for participating in a leisure activity.
- Learners will create their ads in the digital format of their choosing. They may record a video, an audio file, or use a free program like Microsoft Office Mix to turn a PowerPoint into a video.
- Finally, learners will complete a self-reflection of their work by completing the extended reflection sheet.
Notes: Since this activity is designed to engage students in presentational speaking, you may want to have the learners record the audio during class in order to ensure that they are not simply writing a script and reading it. Alternatively, you could have learners present their ads to the class in lieu of recording them or record them as they make the presentations.
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