Using GOANIMATE :Creating interesting and funny stories

OBJECTIVES:

• To use your imagination.
• To relate different experience in your life to the assignment.
• To use a website to create stories.
• To be critic not only on your own but on the other classmates.
• To practise English in all your work.

TASKS

• Go to http://www.goanimate.com/ (see http://florencia123-teachingenglish.blogspot.com/2011/10/creating-animation-with-goanimate_18.html for instructions on how to do it and an example to help you!) You have to create an animation using this website.
• Given a situation, create an animation using a setting, characters and voices(your written words):

Situation: Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth from Pirates of the Caribbean.
 Jack is apologizing for something he has done to her.  He really regrets
having done such a thing. She is disappointed and at the same time 
angry. 

What you have to do:

•       Choose this skit/theme

 

•   Choose this setting

 

• Choose these characters

 

• Type or record your dialogue

 

  

This is the last part: First of all choose the characters’ voice. They should be british! Now you have to create the situation. Remember the situation described before ( Jack is apologizing for something...) So imagine what he could have done and why, how, during the conversation he will succeed in his objective. It should be shown the beginning of the conversation (how they greet to each other) her reaction to his questions or statements, etc. And how she will accept his apology and why. If you want to add other things they will be welcome but the requirements before mentioned should be present. The film should last between 2-3 minutes. Not less than that!

• The animation should include all the items required. The language to use is free, with this, I mean that you can use all the knowledge of language you know but of course avoid using inappropriate words/phrases, etc.
• After this, you will have to present the work to your classmates explaining what you have thought of and why and then autocritize yourself on your weakness and strongest points and your classmates’ ones.

Evaluation Criteria

• Appropriate use of language.
• The inclusion of all the items required in the assignment.
• Students’ fluency and accuracy on their oral exposition.
• The lenght of the video.
• The time students have taken to the assignment. The production, basically.
• The use of the website in the correct form. Not using it for other reasons.