Crafty conversation cartoons

Let's practise core spoken and written questions ansd responses that the children learn in the target language.

Spotted this clip on Facebook this morning and realised how this simple craft idea could help us this half term revisit core questions and answers and build up children's ability to practise basic conversational language. The video can be found here on Facebook 5 minute craft activities funny toothy pictures

Let's practise core spoken and written questions ansd responses that the children learn in the target language.

Spotted this clip on Facebook this morning and realised how this simple craft idea could help us this half term revisit core questions and answers and build up children's ability to practise basic conversational language.

1. Share the video and create the paper cartoon characters with the class. Either use this an independent activity where children create their own fantatscial faces or link this to a theme or core focus . So for example this half term in our SOW we might link this work  with the fishes you see in the clip and our  Y2 "sea creatures " theme just practising greetings and farewells. In Year 3 the children could create hungry giants and servants for the Y3 Summer 1 focus or with Y4 and  jungle animals perhaps personal information questions and answers between the animals, etcetra......) 
2. Ask the children to brainstorm with you core questions and answers they may want to use with their cartoon characters.
3. Each child should have atleast one cartoon character.
4. The children work in pairs and practise their spoken language.The cartoon characters can only speak when the mouth is open of course and the partners working together must take turns and build up questions and responses.
5. One pair can perfrom for a second pair and children can also perform for the class.
6. Time to focus on writing! Ask the children,working with a partner, to create  and write speech bubbles with their favourite question and response.The speech bubbles can glued inside the mouths of the cartoon characters and only revealed when the mouth is open. Blu tac the nmouths shut and either put in the children's writing books or create a display where the mouths can be opened to reveal the written sentences.
7. Challenge other children in the class to read aloud the speech bubbles when the cartoon character mouths are opened.Can they think of the possible question or response that matches what they read?