ImagesOnline version Images in the language classroom by Cintia Lazarte 1 Close Up Ideas From The Image In English Language Teaching Close Up Ideas From The Image In English Language Teaching 2 Presentation Close-ups – any level Sometimes what the picture shows is not as important as what it does not show. Ask your students to take out their mobile phones, go to Google Images and find several close-ups. Now they have to work in pairs, look at each other’s close-ups in turn, and try to guess what it can/may/might/can’t be. 3 Variation VariationYou can go even further and modify the task by asking students to take close-ups of specific objects, linked to a given unit in the coursebook. After they have done the guessing, students need to describe the object that they have identified in as much detail as they can. 4 Mobile phones Using a mobile phone, instead of just looking at a printed picture in the book, boosts students’ involvement and makes them try a lot harder. In such activities, the language is authentic and natural, not contrived at all 5 Source Ideas from
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