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Juan Osborne

AgendaA Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Making Things Better for You!

1. Introduction to using pictures in the classroom

2. Using Pictures to teach:1. Vocabulary2. Grammar3. Speaking4. Listening5. Reading6. Writing7. Assessment

3. Q and A

Introduction to PicturesA Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Fred R. Barnard in the advertising trade journal Printers' Ink, promoting the use of images in advertisements. The December 8, 1921 issue carries an ad entitled, "One Look is Worth A Thousand Words."

The Russian writer Ivan Turgenev wrote (in Fathers and Sons in 1862), "A picture shows me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound."

Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte said "Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours," or "A good sketch is better than a long speech".

VocabularyPicture Dictionary – Twisted Fingers

VocabularyPicture Dictionary – Missing Word

VocabularyPicture Dictionary – Keyhole

VocabularyPicture Dictionary – Lip Reading

VocabularyPosters – Out of Focus

VocabularyPosters Run and Point

VocabularyPosters – I Spy

Substitution DrillsPoint and Say

Substitution DrillsQuestion and Response

Memory TestsPresent/Past Continuous

Memory TestsThere is/are There was/were Prepositions

Conversation PromptsA Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Listening Point – Level 2 Unit 6 Page 72 Track 76

Listening Draw a line – Level 2 Unit 5 Page 64 Track 64

Listening Circle - Level 2 Unit 4 Page 56 Track 54

Listening Write – Level 2 Unit 2 Page 38 Track 31

Listening Color – Level 2 Unit 7 Page 82 Track 10

SpeakingPicture Sequencing

SpeakingPicture Differences

SpeakingOdd One Out

ReadingMatching Pictures to Sentences and Paragraphs

ReadingRead and Choose the Picture

ReadingError Correction

WritingWords

WritingSentences

WritingParagraphs

WritingStories/Letters/Essays

Just for LaughsA Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

1. 10 level British English course for primary to junior high students. (levels 9-10 ready in 2013)

2. 70-100 hours of instruction per level, 12 units per level, 4 review units per level, I welcome unit per level, 5 lessons per unit.

3. Well-known, respected, successful and experienced authors of Way Ahead and Macmillan English.

4. Methodology: Story based (levels 1 & 2) to thematic (levels 3 & 4) to cross curricular (levels 5 & 6) to literary approach (levels 7 & 10)

5. Components include; SB, WB, TG, GPB, Dictionary, Posters, Flashcards, Audio, DVD, Website.

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