Learning moment three: Styles and strategiesCourse: 551018A_220

First & second language acquisition and learning

Tutor: Julio Cesar TulandeUniversidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

UNAD

Magda Milena Alzate Cardona: 33818186

LESSON PLAN

• Topic: Talking about photographs

• Age: Teenager/adult• Level: Low intermediate

A1/A2• Timing: 60-90 mins

Aims:• To help students ask

and answer questions about photographs

• To develop students’ listening skills

• To develop students’ writing skills

• To develop students’ communication skills

INTRODUCTION

• What photos have you got on your mobile? Do you keep pictures in your wallet? Have you got a beautiful photograph on your identity card? Do you have any photograph that you love a lot?

PROCEDURE

• Lead in

Bring in 1 of your own photos to show to the class. Make photocopies for the students or display it by using the projector or IWB. Ask students to guess about the picture. Tell the students about the picture. They can ask you about the picture in a minute but first they need to prepare some questions.

Task 1: Questions about photographs.• • Hand out Task 1. Students prepare the questions in pairs. Point out that some of them have more

than one possible option. Have the students ask you any of the questions (and any others they can think of) about your photo. Answer any questions that are grammatically correct. Elicit or feed in corrections as necessary.

• A) Here are some typical questions that people ask about photographs. Can you complete the questions with the correct word? (More than one option may be possible.)

• Where What’s What Who What When

• 1 When/Where was it taken?• 2 _____________ are they?• 3 _____________ was it taken?• 4 _____________ is this?• 5 _____________ is she doing?• 6 _____________ are they doing?• 7 _____________ took the picture?• 8 _____________ this?• 9 _____________ do you keep the photo?• 10 ____________ kind of camera have you got?

• In pairs or small groups the students can now talk about their own photographs using the pre-prepared questions. Monitor and feed in vocabulary as necessary.

Task 2: Describing a photograph.. Ask students to look at the photo in Task 2 and to guess where and when it was taken. Ask them to read the description.

In this picture, a man is putting some sausages on a barbeque.

It's a warm sunny day and a lot of people are sitting having a barbeque outdoors in a park or some public area. There are some cars outside the fence, so it looks like they drove there.

The man is using a big gas-barbeque. He's turning the sausages with a spatula. He's holding a bun or some bread in his hand, so maybe he's going to make a burger or a hotdog. He's a little bit fat, so I think he likes barbequing!

Behind him there is a young woman in a pink dress. Perhaps they are related. There are some other people at a big wooden picnic table. The barbeque looks like a nice thing for a family or friends to do on a long hot summer day.

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• Ask students to give more information like colors or anything else in order to learn more vocabulary

Task 3: Prepositions, discussion and writing

Where can you keep photos? Complete the expressions with the correct preposition. As in by on• 1 a wall, Facebook, my

computer, my mobile, the table

• 2 an album, a frame, my purse/wallet, my bedroom/office

• 3 my bed, my computer• 4 a screen saver

Task 4: Write a description of one of your favorite’s photographs.

• This activity is appreciated by students. They are very proud when talking about their private life (family, friends and pets)