Hello Everyone, I sincerely welcome all of you to my second blog 💙.
In this blog, I have designed a short video clip on the topic “Figures of Speech”. This learning activity is particularly designed for class three students to help them understand the concept better. For this activity, I have used various animations using different pictures, clip art, and colors so that students will get a real life visual of everything. As we can see in textbooks, most of the pictures are distorted using black and white color so sometimes it’s difficult for students to get all the information correctly. So that’s why, I have created this learning activity with the aim of giving crystal clear concepts about the new topic to the students.
While creating this short video clip, I inserted all the
necessary animations. I even used clip arts like pig, person, cake, etc., to
arouse the curiosity of the learners. For the pictures I used spin, fly
in, fly out, enlarge, and glow animations.
Though some people find these kinds of animations distracting, I thought that
for lower level class, students like things which have many movements so that’s
why I animated using different effects. I even inserted text box to write few
examples of the topics. Too many of words in a video clip may distract the
learners so that’s why I inserted short texts and recorded most of the
description of the topic. In order to check students understanding about the
topic, I have also given a short quiz at the end of the power point. In this
blog, I am teaching four types of figures of speech: Hyperbole,
Metaphor, Personification and Onomatopoeia.
I will use this teaching learning material during lesson introduction so that students can not only understand the concept but also differentiate different types of speech. I will show them the slides and explain each slide along with examples so that they can connect each topic with different examples.
The reason why I created this material is to help students get a
better understanding of different types of figure of speech. Learning figures
of speech, like similes, metaphors or personification in English, helps the
learners to improve their understanding of the figurative aspect of the
language while also exposing them to the use and understanding of clichés and
slangs. It is also believed that they help sow the seeds of imagination and
stimulate the learners’ creativity in the language. The importance of learning
and using them is thus very obvious for an individual to be able to fit in the
world where English is the language of communication.
The lack of understanding and using figures of
speech leaves the user of the English language at sea, as to the real meaning
of what is being said or written. The unseasoned learner may confuse the
figurative meaning with its literal connotation. This may lead to a sense of
frustration and lack of self confidence in the learner towards the English
language. Learners who begin to effectively use figures of speech show a better
understanding of the language. So keeping in mind all these importance of
learning figure of speech for students, I tried to make this power point using
different animations in order to make it eye catchy and interesting for the
students.
Learning Activity for Students (Quiz)
Students will do this activity individually. After going through the above video lesson, students will check their understanding by doing this the following activities. This will help them to comprehend their new knowledge effectively.
