The OUP ELT Blog team has shared five great tips and lesson plans to use photographs in your classrooms.
OUP Publisher Marc Goozée has put together a really helpful list of photography lesson ideas, applicable for any classroom.
1) Take advantage of students’ own photographs and experiences
Now that every smartphone has a camera we can take photos easily. Ask students to bring their own photographs into the class and tell it’s ‘story’ using the prompts below. Alternatively, this can be an instant activity for pairs of students who show images from their smartphones to each other.
- What was the photographer thinking as they took the photograph?
- Who or what is the subject?
- What was happening during the shot or before?
Good photos to use could be of something your students have done over the holiday, a recent celebration they attended, or a new place they have discovered. You can use this photograph from the Wide Angle Photography Contest 2019, to model the activity for your students.