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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Writing To Portrait (Fun Teaching Method)


1. Preparation
  • Cut out portraits Of' interesting or unusual people from magazines.
  • Look for unknown people.
  • Try and find large pictures.
  • You need one picture for each member of the class and at least seven extra.
  • Try and find some pictures that arc similar, for example find a few of blond middle aged women, find a few of business men, etc.
  • Choose two large pictures and put these on cardboard.
  • Pin one of these two pictures oil the board.


2. Procedure
  • Do a vocabulary brainstorming session for the portrait oil the board.
  • Write the students' words and ideas oil the board around the portrait.
  • When they have no more words you can help. At this point you can introduce new ways of  describing age, hair color, etc.Repeat with the second picture.
  • Now give each student one of the pictures.
  • Explain that the students are witnesses to a crime and have to give a very accurate written description of' the person they saw to the police.
  • Ask the student not to show, their portrait to anyone else.
  • Give them plenty of' time to write their descriptions and ask for your help. But you Should seta time limit.
  • When they are finished collect the portraits.
  • Ask students to exchange their description with another student.
  • Ask them to ready the description they have and think about what that person must look like.
  • While the students are reading shuffle all the pictures.
  • Then pin the pictures around the walls.
  • Students the get up and walk around trying to find the portrait that best fits the description they have.
  • They can then check whether they are correct with the writer of the description.

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