Harmonizing Traditional Language Practice and Mobile Devices Through Digital Photography
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People often say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but don`t you think it is also worth a thousand activities? Learn how photos taken with smartphones and tablets can make the regular classroom language practice more fun, engaging and dynamic through a variety of meaningful activities and language tasks suitable for different levels and ages. All suggestions require very little preparation and absolutely no Internet connection.
Harmonizing Traditional Language Practice and Mobile Devices Through Digital Photography
- 1. Harmonizing Traditional Language Practice and Mobile Devices Through Digital Photography Vinicius Lemos Casa Thomas Jefferson
- 2. Why is working with digital photography a good idea? offline BYOD easy creativity meaningful personalized engaging rapport collective ownership novelty
- 3. Using images from the photo library
- 4. Suggestion #1: This is me! What do your pictures say about you? Students browse through their photo library and use some images to talk about themselves (personality, lifestyle, likes and dislikes, etc).
- 5. Suggestion #2: Things in Common What do your pictures have in common? In pairs Each student chooses a picture randomly and then come with a list of things both images have in common. Remind them to be creative!
- 6. Suggestion #3: Odd One Out Which picture is the odd one out? Why? Groups of three or four. Students show each other their pictures and discuss which one is the odd one out. Remind them that there is no right or wrong answer. However, their explanation should be reasonable.
- 7. Suggestion #3: Odd One Out
- 8. Suggestion #4: Vocabulary Ping Pong
- 9. Assigning mobile homework
- 10. Mobile Homework #5: What are they doing? #6: What did you do last weekend? #7: What is there in your living room? #8: What`s your favorite possession? #9: What should I do?
- 11. Suggestion #10: The Stuffed Animal Project Students take the stuffed animal home and take pictures of it doing different things. What is he doing? Is he cooking? Describe his daily routine.
- 12. Taking pictures during class
- 13. Suggestion #11: Guess What It Is It must be It can`t be it might/could be 1 2 3 4
- 14. Suggestion #12: Describe the Scene Simple Past x Past Continuous Small groups Students look at their classmates` pictures and describe the scenes using the pattern: X was ____-ing when _______.
- 15. Suggestion #13: The Alphabet Challenge nails queen nuts food Small groups
Editor's Notes
- #16: Ayat Tawel/ Cairo, Egypt. http://ayat-pdiary.blogspot.com.br/2013/04/the-alphabet-photographing-game.html#comment-form