eltpics webinar (ih live online workshop) - sandy millin, 26th january 2015

Picture ThisELTpics and images in the classroom

Sandy MillinTwitter: @sandymillin

sandymillin@gmail.com

sandymillin.wordpress.com

26th January 2015

• List of photos to find

• Find someone who/mingle with time limit

• May not find all of them

• Use for:

– getting to know you

– revising vocab sets e.g. family, food

Picture Scavenger Hunt

Adam Simpson

www.teachthemenglish.com/5-great-ice-breakers-in-five-days-3-picture-scavenger-hunt/

• Photos from daily life

• Show photo + tell story

• Use for:– retelling story

– writing mini-saga (50-100 words)

– list of 10 things you do when friends visit

– predict story from pictures

Mobile Storytime

Paul Braddock

http://bcnpaul1.blogspot.com/barefoot-teaching-journal-mobile.html

www.flickr.com/ELTpics

• www.flickr.com/eltpics

• EITHER: “Albums”, find your image

• OR: term in search box, “eltpics’ Photostream”

Find an image

Photo taken from http://flickr.com/eltpics by Hana Ticha, used under a CC Attribution Non-Commercial license

http://eltpics.com/attribution.html

The floating suitcase

Where is it from?

Where is it going?

How long has it been travelling?

What is in it?

Describe the owner.

Why is it in the water?

How does the owner feel about their suitcase being in the water?

Will the photographer pick it up?

Photo taken from http://flickr.com/eltpics by Hana Ticha, used under a CC Attribution Non-Commercial license

takeaphotoand.wordpress.com

ELTpics blog

The Getaway

Paco Gascón

http://takeaphotoand.wordpress.com/the-getaway/

Step 1: Make a mosaic

www.bighugelabs.com/mosaic.php www.fotor.com/features/collage.html

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Step 3: Tell the story

• Choose ELTpics which mean something to you

• Make a mosaic

• Students guess meaning

• Use for:

– getting to know you

– descriptions

– to introduce characters

A museum of me

Antonia Clare

https://takeaphotoand.wordpress.com/creativity-and-eltpics/

Images taken from flickr.com/eltpics by:Phil Longwell, Sandy Millin, @elockhart79, Hana Ticha

Bridges

Fiona Mauchline

http://takeaphotoand.wordpress.com/bridges/

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What do you think of?

Speakout Advanced student’s book p23, Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson, Pearson Longman

• Five senses

• Zoom out – repeat

• Use for:

– giving context

– creativity

– raising interest

• Variants

– ELTpics ‘close ups’/‘looking up’/’looking down’ sets

Zoom out

Ceri Jones

http://aclil2climb.blogspot.co.uk/speaking-lesson-using-close-up-images.html

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Dave Dodgson

http://www.davedodgson.com/2012/03/taking-pics-out-of-coursebooks.html

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Picture ThisELTpics and images in the classroom

Sandy MillinTwitter: @sandymillin

sandymillin@gmail.comsandymillin.wordpress.com

26th January 2015