Humanising Language Teaching
Year 5; Issue 4; July 03

Build words into a picture

Level : Beginner to Advanced
Time : 15 minutes

Preparation

Choose 12 words from the next unit you are going to teach in the course book. They should be new words.

In class

1. Tell the group that they are going to draw a picture incorporating some of the new words from the next unit. Each student should work on his/her own.

2. Tell them the first word, either explaining its meaning in English, paraphrasing it with a known word, miming it, or translating it. They make a drawing representing it. Give them the second word and explain/translate it. They continue the picture incorporating the second word/idea. In this way they build each of the twelve words into one picture.

3. Say the words again slowly, and ask them to write each word over its representation.

4. Ask the students to compare their pictures.