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Humanising Language Teaching
Year 4; Issue 6; November 02
Finding the picture's message
By Valérie Fontaine and Alain Moreau, Dutch teachers, I.E.P.S.C.F. – Uccle, Belgium
E-mail: philippe.biava@busmail.net
Translated by Karin Rocher, English teacher, I.E.P.S.C.F. – Uccle, Belgium
Level: pre-intermediate
Time: 30 minutes
Material: 8 pictures or drawings of road signs, eg NO ENTRY
1 set of photocopied pictures of road signs per 3, 4 students
Focus: modals
giving advice, prohibition
Depending on the number of students, ask the students to stand in 3 or 4 lines, with the last student in each line near the board
Show the pictures to the last students in each line. They must find the message and whisper it to the next student and so on until the message reaches the end of the line.
The last student writes the message on the blackboard.
The class compares all the messages and corrects them by reference to the picture. At the end of the activity, the students make groups of 2, 3 or 4. Hand out to each group a photocopy with the 8 drawings. The students must agree on and then re-write the 8 messages corresponding to the 8 pictures.