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 Hi eveyone! I have used Pixton to create a comic with my class (2nd ESO) Using Pixton has been a little bit confusing at the beginning. It took a whole lesson to explain to students all the things it has. I organized my 30 students in groups of three and four. I let them choose the groups so that they could work comfortably. The rule they had was that nobody could work alone and they had to make sure that everyone had someone to work with.  First of all, I dedicated one lesson to know how to use Pixton. I showed them that they could change face expressions, poses, eyes direction, etc. At the same time students were with the school computers so that they could put into practice what I was showing them in class.  Then, the second session, students had to plan the comic before creating it. There was one rule: they had to use will & going to. This was the grammar we were dealing with in that unit. Then, I gave them two lessons to do the comics. One problem I found was th...

Undoubtedly, reading is essential for cultivating your mind. I remember myself as a teenager who was passionate about reading romantic novels and imagining myself being the protagonist of all of them. Then, I had a period of time in which I didn't want to read anything, since, at school, I had to read lots of books which I didn't like at all. The same happened when I went to university and studied English philology. I was supposed to read lots of literary books. It was not until I moved to England that I started to feel the same I felt as a teenager reading. In England, at the university, teachers gave certain recommended readings and you could choose the books you wanted to do the dissertation about. From that moment onwards, I started reading more often as a way of disconnecting from the "real world".  Nowadays, my reading habits have changed a little bit. Now, I don't like reading on the computer or ebook. I just read things that I have to correct (e.g writings...