Illustrated Relay Review for Speaking Practice

Goal: To give a "safe" low-risk venue for students for speaking practice showing mastery of high-frequency vocabulary
Objective: The students will create simple drawings from which they can tell a 30 second story using their assigned vocabulary structures.
ISTE NETS: Shown below in green




What I needed: 
As I neared the end of a unit, I felt the students had received enough comprehensible input to now begin to ask for some output from them in the target language.  Before the formative speaking assessment, I wanted to give students some practice in a low-risk way but when I just do question and answer one-on-one in my classes, only one student is practicing at a time and each student only gets 1-2 opportunities to practice.

What we did:

Example of vocab. structure

Each student was passed out an iPad and an index card with 2-3 of the vocabulary structures that we have gone over in the unit.

example of student illustration

The students used a drawing app. (in this case drawing pad) to create a very simple yet clear illustration that will guide them to tell a 30 second story in Spanish that uses the structures on the card. (Creativity & Innovation)
(Critical Thinking, Problem-solving, Decision Making) 

Example of story from above illustration:

There is a girl. The girl has blonde hair. The girl has a blue house. The house has a red door. The girl has a hot dog stand. The girl has fancy make up from Paris. The girl has a hot boyfriend. The girl yells, "I have a hot boyfriend." The boyfriend is hot because he has a motorcycle.

Students make 2 lines facing towards each other holding their iPads to show illustrations.  (I usually go out into the hallway to have adequate space) One line will stay still throughout the activity, the other line moves to the side one step every time the teacher says "Rotate". Here's the procedure:

1. Teacher  yells "Line 1" and students in line 1 have 30 seconds for the students in line 1 to tell their partner their story in Spanish. (Communication & Collaboration)
2. Teacher yells "line 2" and the partner now has 30 seconds to tell their story in Spanish. (Communication & Collaboration)
3. Teacher yells "Move it!" and the moving line steps one position over except for the end person who must RUN all the way down to the other end of the line before the teacher yells "Line 1" again.