Picture Dictations
Find a large magazine photo or textbook illustration that shows a specific setting (a city, park, kitchen, school, office, hospital, store etc) and several people engaged in a variety of activities. Don’t show learners the picture. Pre-teach any unfamiliar vocabulary you will use to describe the picture. Orally describe the picture, using level-appropriate sentences, and pausing between lines to allow learners to draw the picture while you describe it. Include some negative statements such as “The woman isn’t wearing a hat.” and confirm that learners don’t draw in response. Describe the picture a second time to allow learners to check their work. When finished, learners compare their pictures to the original and to each other’s pictures. For higher level learners, pictures can be given to them and they can describe them to their partners. They can also choose from their own photos. Picture Sources
- ELTPics.com ELTPics Sets
- Wellcomeimages.org
- Openclipart.org
- Commons.wikimedia.org
- Creative Commons Search Page - select sources and types of license
- Morguefile.com
- Flickr Advanced Search (select 'Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content)
- Google Advanced Image Search (check usage rights)
- Times Photos of the Year
- Interesting Flickr Photos
- The Big Picture
- National Geographic
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