Pictures Talk

Pictures Talk
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Children are always attracted by colourful pictures and we can take advantage of this while teaching them English.

This is a teacher guided activity :
The teacher will show the students a photo and the students will decide what they want to say about it, then the teacher will write the sentences in English under the photo.
Ex: The boy is playing with a dog. The dog is black and white. His name is ……

Some vocabulary can be stimulated by the teacher, as the students probably had already been introduced to these words.   Ex. Play, dog , black, white, name.

These “picture stories” can be written on poster paper and kept for a reading activity.
The teacher can also find a group of drawings or photos for a story sequence.
A sentence can be written under each drawing, then put together to form a booklet.
Ex. This is John.
       John and his family live in a big white house.
       John has breakfast with his family
       He goes to school by bus...
       His teacher is Miss...
       He has lunch at school.
       After school, John plays with his friends.
       Etc.

These “readers” can be photocopied so each child has one.

It’s obvious that the material a teacher prepares must be on the appropriate level of her students. She can add more vocabulary and make more complex sentences according to the students’ needs.
These little “readers” can help the students bypass a translation from their original language, as the photo “says it all”.

A Nice thought
“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson