promoting english through digital photography

smart phones, tablets and digital cameras are equipped

with electronic photo detectors to capture images and videos.

These devices are affordable

such devices can be optimum not only for bringing the real

world to the classroom but also for taking the learners to the real

world outside the classroom boundaries.

What can your students create using such devices?

Selfie

…is a self-portrait photograph, typically taken with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone… or pointed at a mirror, rather than by using a self-timer.

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How can you exploit a selfie in your classroom?

Any suggestion?

Activity 1

In groups, answer the questions below about the selfie.

1. What do you see?

2. What is going on?

3. Why did they take this photo? Where?

4. How do these persons feel?

5. What happened right before the photograph was taken?

Activity 2:Write a news story that might be

used with this selfie.

Activity 3: Guess who?

Pair-work

Step 1

• Student A describes a person

• Student B tries to find out who the person is

Step 2

• Student A asks yes/no questions

• Student B answers with yes or no

A candid photograph

is a photograph captured through motion mostly, without creating a posed appearance. This is achieved by avoiding prior preparation of the subject and by either surprising the subject or by not distracting the subject during the process of taking photos.

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Activity 1: Write a sentence about the photo, and then pass it to your right. (The

same way you do on social networks)

Photo Gallery

Students take photos of different places in their city to make an exhibition in the classroom.

Activity: Walk around and write a descriptive sentence under each photo.

Project Work

A picture dictionary

or pictorial dictionary is a dictionary where the definition of a word is displayed in the form of a drawing or photograph.

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Example

• Each group chooses a room and take pictures of its furniture and label each piece.

• The teacher creates a wiki page for each group to enable them to post their work.

• Each student writes a paragraph on each wiki page using as many words as possible.

Creating a Text

• Each group chooses a daily activity. • Group members take a picture of

every action and then turn pictures into a text.

Examples of activities:1. Brushing teeth2. Tidying up a room3. Setting a table for a meal4. Clearing a table after meal

I walked into the bathroom. I took the cap off the tube of toothpaste. I squeezed some toothpaste onto my toothbrush. I turned on the cold water. I brushed my upper teeth and spit out some toothpaste. I brushed my lower teeth and spit out some more toothpaste. I rinsed out my toothbrush. I put the toothbrush back into the toothbrush holder. I put some water into a cup and rinsed out my mouth. I spit out the water and walked out of the bathroom.

What other projects or ideas can you think of?

Make a list.

Thank you all!