A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Brief Description

Students write captions to go with amusing or interesting photographs.

Students practice writing short, grammatically correct sentences.

Materials Needed (teacher)

Light cardboards, labels (stickers), and photos.

1. Show some pictures of animals with humorous captions or quotations. (Easily found on the net)

2. Display the posters with the photographs on the wall(s).

3. Ask each student to write captions to go with the pictures. Possible activities:

3.1. what the animals are saying/thinking

3.2. quotations (songs, movies, and etc.)

3.3 production on the structure/theme studied (passive, if clause, etc.)

3.4. Correct the sentences and give them back. Ask the students to rewrite them on the labels (stickers) and stick them on the posters.

Materials Needed (students)

Black light cardboard, a picture taken by them, paper to write the caption

1. Choose with the class a theme to work on.

2. Ask them to take one picture and write a caption on the theme

3. Show them a sample of the work.

4. Show them how to prepare the PASSE-PAR-TOUT, glue the picture and the caption.

Obs.: PASSE-PAR-TOUT - For a regular size picture (10 x 15 cm):

1. Cut two black light cardboard rectangles 'A' and 'B'(17 x 21 cm)

2. Take one of the rectangles 'B' and cut another rectangle in the center (8 x 12.5 cm)

3. Glue the picture in the center of rectangle 'A'.

4. Glue rectangle 'B' on rectangle 'A'.

There you have it!