One of the greatest powers of social media is the free flow of worthy ideas that often come in the shape of quotes. People do share inspirational quotes, no one can deny.
The visual nature of Facebook also causes the flood of quote-images.
True, teens sometimes share things that sound nice, without much consideration. Some quotations are just fake , some make no sense at all. (And of course the source remains unknown.)
This activity will make your students read, create, think somewhat critically and speak.
Ask them to find quotes that they either like or hate, found online, in a movie or in a book.
Tell them to post all of them on your group wall. (This phase will make them search the Internet, look through their Facebook newsfeed, think about films they saw, perhaps in L1, then they have to find the original script or the quote.)
They might want to use http://www.brainyquote.com
A way to use it:
Now that the group has many quotes you can use them in many different ways offline, in the lesson.
Give them the first few words of the quotes and ask them to finish them as accurately as possible
- Ask them to form groups according to which quotes they like and let them explain ...
- Take some colourful markers, coloured paper, crayons, magazine clippings, glue and make them create posters for the quotes
- Ask them to make up fake quotes
- Encourage them to get to know more about the person who said the quote they like
- Use Shelly's ideas :)
Please add your ideas to these :)
