My class tomorrow is about pets.
This is a topic that arouses lots of interest and interaction as there are many people attached to their pets. A while ago, I recorded this simple video with a friend. As voicethread is a dynamic tool to create learning objects, now I can use it with my students with an even richer listening practice touch, for other teachers have also talked about their pets.
The idea is to start the class showing some photos of animals that could be “weird” pets (i.e, iguanas) and to discuss if those animals would make good pets and the reasons for the answers.
Then, I’ll show the Voicethread and ask students to write questions to my friend Luiz Cláudio about his pets. Then, they will talk about their own pets and will bring images of their own pets for a topic wrap up in the following class.
Some questions for discussion:
– Are you attached to animals? Do you have pets? How attached are you to your pet?
– How many pets have you had so far?
– When isn’t it good to have pets?
– Pets are more work than fun. Agree or disagree?
– Animals are not meant to become pets. Agree or disagree?
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