Working with pictures

WORKING WITH PICTURES

Use images you take from : Your city Your personal trips People Nature Shades Etc... Ask Ss to bring their pics and do similar

actvities for pair group work

PICTURESGroup discussion• Where? • When / first

meet?• In what

circumstances? • How long/

together?• Happy?• What/ thinking? • Can you

imagine tis couple’s lifestyle? How would you describe them ?

• Does this couple remind you of someone you know? Who? Why?

Outline:SS get into the mind of the characters and write up their mental storyboard , which builds up the final image Focus: Writing practice: Narrative tenses for story –making ( past simple, past continuous , past perfect)

Photo by Roseli Serra- Quebec City – June 2013

PICTURES

Aim: To revise questions and physical descriptions

Speaking:

Who?How old?Where?What/ doing?Why/ wear/ shorts and sandals? What/do? How / would /describe him?

Photo by Roseli Serra- Porto de Galinhas January 2013

PICTURES

• Where?• What time of the

day?• How / know? • Weather like?• What/

temperature? • What can you see?• How would you

feel if you were there?

Photo by Roseli Serra- Chilean Patagonia– October 2011

Aim: To revise wh questions

PICTURES

DESCRIBE AND DRAW

Outline: SS describe images totheir partners who attempt to draw

them .Focus: Fluency practice: Listening forspecific purposes, making connectionsbetween verbal descriptions and visualStimuli. Level: All – (adaptable activity)Basic describing language, prepositionsof places , there is/ are, on the left/right/in the top right/ left- hand corner, etc(revision/ personalisation)Steps: Pair up SS wich one with a differentset of pics ( 2 or 3 per student) St A describes a pic while StB draws.Change roles. SS then compare their pics with thedrawings . Follow up: SS chose one of the pics

they got and like most to share theirimpressions with the class / groups

WHO AM I?

WHO AM I? Focus: Tense ovweview: uses of presentcontinuous and future and construction

such asI wish... / I regret..., hypotetical

language: youmust be... etcLevel: Intermediate to advancedSteps:Show the SS an image or 2 (display on

thescreen)in which different people are

present.Each stindividually chooses one of the

people inThe Pic and think about him/her for a

couple ofminutes. Write some questions on theboard so that SS can practise different

tenses:Ex: What’s my name? Whre am I? How

am Ifeeling now? How do i relate to other

peoplehere? What will happen next? What do I

regret?What do I wish for the world? Etc.SS write down the answers to the

questionswhile t monitors their writing. Set Ss in

groupsand each one reads about tyheir work

and theothers have to guess who they are

talkningabout by looking at the image on the

screen;

Outline: SS create a role for a person in animage, describing their charcater’s feelings and then guess the role created by others .