This is my Week 3 assignment. I need to say that I had done caption contests and lessons about picture captions before but I had never taken into serious consideration the context and the copyright issues. This is why searching for funny but "appropriate for all contexts" images was not easy. I found these images in Pixabay and they were free images. This worksheet was prepared for my A2 level students. As a pre-requite for this assignment, I would state the fact that students have previously gone through picture description and this is the final part of a teaching unit about pictures which involves some simple creative writing.
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Miss Alex, I love short and flexible lesson. This one has great potential.
ReplyDeleteRecently, I've been focused on graphic design and questions are:
1) Isn't the instructions for Task 1 hidden between colourful photos? I didn't notice it at first.
2) Underlining usually brings more distraction rather than channel our attention. Maybe using bold type would work better? Or stronger, more chunky font? Right now powerful, colourful pictures seem to dominate thin letters.
Anyway, I love love love the idea of the lesson!
Hi Miss Alex,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your materials. I am delighted to hear that you gave some thought to copyright and managed to find such lovely pictures that were free to use. It’s great that people are starting to think about the complex world of copyright. Thanks for the background info too.
Materials are lovely and colourful. It’s great how the same colours are used throughout – clever design on your part I think, with the coloured cards at the top too. I’m a huge fan of ‘Think, pair, share’ so I was happy to see this approach here.
Caption writing is fun and the photos you’ve chosen are perfect. Students will be developing lots of skills through a series of simple tasks.
Ex. 4 is great – more complex photos and a more challenging activity. Great idea for getting students to think creatively.
I love these materials and would be happy to use them. I’d love to see students’ work afterwards too.
What a great choice of images! I love using pictures for creative writing tasks so these would make wonderful prompts. Thanks for sharing them!
ReplyDeleteLove the colours too, and the clear sequencing. There is a lot of opportunity for creativity and the pictures are interesting!
ReplyDeleteJust curious: are you hoping for any particular language points to emerge from this lesson? If not, how do you go about giving feedback or dealing with any emergent language? Am asking because I am a big fan of "open" activities like yours, but there are times when I realise I need some "ready-to-use" language or framework in case students are stuck (e.g. when it comes to writing a story).
Laura Ferroglio In this case I thought that maybe students could start from the picture description writing prompts and then try to give reasons why the pictures shows ( for example) a woman with her legs hanging from the washing machine. I think the students with a lower level of English could just limit their story with simple explanations whereas the students with a higher level could actually try to image what happened before and after the picture. Thank you for taking the time to comment on my assignment:-)
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