eltpics webinar (ih live online workshop) - sandy millin, 26th january 2015
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Picture ThisELTpics and images in the classroom
Sandy MillinTwitter: @sandymillin
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
• 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
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
Step 2: Set the scene
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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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Subverting the coursebook
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
26th January 2015