Symbols and Icons
Upper-intermediate - Advanced level
Description
Main Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a Presentations in the context of Symbols and Icons
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide review of Vocabulary for Presentations in the context of Symbols and Icons
Procedure (7-14 minutes)
The teacher will start the lesson by showing a couple of pictures that represents some ideas and places (e.g., Eiffel Tower, which stands for Paris, the dove, which stands for peace, the pyramids, which stands for Egypt, the ₺ icon, which represents the Turkish Lira.)
The teacher will show logomakr website to demonstrate how to create a logo. Next, the teacher will group the students accordingly and will ask each group to brainstorm some symbols or icons of their own.
The teacher will ask one of the students to come to share his idea and explain about his icon. The presentation of the icon can be done through the use of the following website: https://logomakr.com/ Finally, at the end of the student's presentation, the teacher will try to elicit some improvements to the icon that the student made through asking some questions such as, 'what can you add/remove to improve this icon?'