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Topic: Making a story about a picture
Title: Talking about a picture
Source:
The activity is created by Melina Hospeyan Mer.
Type of Organization: A Community College in the US.
Type of Class and level: Intermediate ESL learners of ESL class
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Appropriateness of activity:
Student age / level: Students are adults level 3 intermediate learners
Length: 20 minutes
Academic purpose: practice four skills
Terminal Objectives: Practice communication skills
Be creative and make a story according to the picture given
Enabling Objectives: Students will talk about some questions according to the picture they have.
Students will be creative and write a story about the picture.
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Description of the activity:
The purpose of this activity is to be creative, practice speaking and write a short story for the picture. This lesson helps students to develop their speaking and writing skills so they can be more successful in the future.
First the students need to come up with some vocabulary words that they think they can use in their story, and then they should answer the questions about the picture in order to get some ideas on their story.
The students should talk to each other and think to make a funny and interesting story about the picture. Each group will write their story and read it for other groups. The best story will be the winner.
After that the students should organize all the other pictures they have and come up with an imaginary story with all four pictures. At the end of the class the teacher will ask the students to write a story about their childhood as homework and bring it next week.