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Objectives
In this activity you will write a clearly structured report for a team of aliens to present to their leaders on their return from a mission to this planet. You will suggest improvements to another student’s work (and get feedback on your own) and spend some time improving your report before you hand it in.
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Outcomes
At the end of this activity you will have:
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a completed storyboard of a meeting between an alien and a class of students
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a report (written in paragraphs) about what the aliens discovered.
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Resources
To complete the activity you will need:
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Sheet 1.1 Peer Assessment Sheet
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1. Open and watch the Alien Mission storyboard.
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to open the Alien Mission storyboard
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2. Your teacher will tell you to open either the City Life or the Life on Earth storyboard. When you know which one you should work on, click on one of the links below and fill in the blank speech bubbles in each frame. Don’t forget to give the storyboard a new name and save it.
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to open the City Life storyboard
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to open the Life on Earth storyboard
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3. Now think about how the alien will have to rewrite the answers you have typed into the speech bubbles in order to make them suitable for his written report. Your teacher may remind you about work you have already done on the differences between spoken and written English to help you with this task.
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4. Go back to your saved storyboard in the composition screen (or re-open it from the utilities screen) and work through it again, typing the information from your speech bubbles into the caption window of each frame. You will find that the first paragraph has been done for you as a model. When you have finished, you may have time to add an extra frame at the beginning and end of the storyboard and use these to write a short introduction and conclusion to your report.
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5. Your teacher may ask you to swap your storyboard with another student in your class. Look through their storyboard carefully and use Sheet 1.1 Peer Assessment Sheet to help you to make useful comments so that they can improve their work.
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6. When your partner returns the completed Peer Assessment Sheet, look at the comments he or she has made and then use them to improve your writing in the storyboard. Ask your teacher if you should print your final piece. (You will find that the printing screen has been set up for you already, but you may need to make some changes to the size of the text boxes if you have written long paragraphs.)
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7. Your teacher may show you some completed storyboards on the whiteboard so that you can discuss them together.
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8. Write an alien travel guide to Planet Earth, and use backgrounds, characters and props from the palettes to illustrate it.
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9. Create a storyboard of the meeting the alien visitors have with Mission Control when they report on their visit to this planet.
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10. Use images from the internet to produce a storyboard of a TV documentary that the aliens made about the planet whilst they were on Earth.
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