Class or Subject Area: Foreign Language
Specific Learning Objectives:
Speaking/Writing: Students use a series of phrases and sentences to give a description or presentation of people.
Speaking/Listening/Reading: Students ask and answer questions about people’s physical features (face, eyes, hair ...).
Grade Level(s): 10-12
Activity Summary:
Students use Flashface to practice the vocabulary terms related to human facial features (parts of the body and characteristics), like in the following examples:
- face: elongated, round, square, oval…
- eyebrows: thick, thin, bushy…
- eyes: blue, green, dark, light, big, almond-shaped…
- hair: dark, light, short, long, bald, moustache, beard…
- chin: douible, square, receding, pointed, prominent…
- mouth / lips: thick, thin, lower, upper, fleshy, lipstick, lipgloss…
What you need:
Access to Internet
Access to Flashface
How it works:
Students 1 uses Flashface to draw a sketch artist that (s)he later describes to Student 2.
Student 2 uses Flashface to draw a portrait according to the description given by Student 1.
They compare both sketches and make comments.
They exchange roles.
Preparation:
Familiarize yourself with Flashface so that you can give your students a short tutorial, if needed.
Explain the assignment to them
Directions for the students:
“ You have witnessed a crime and you are the only person who saw the perpetrator. You need to describe that person. In order to do so, you will use a software to help you draw a sketch artist. You will later give a description of your drawing to your partner. (S)he will make her/his own drawing according to your directions and you will compare both portraits. After that, you switch roles with your partner. To understand how it works, let’s demonstrate with … (you model the activity by explaining how to use Flashface and by showing examples you created yourself).
Sample:
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