ELTWeekly Issue#11, Tip of the week
By Tarun Patel
Pictures in the classroom
By Tarun Patel
Pictures could prone to be a great aid in the ELT process. Pictures give students information which does not require translation. Pictures can avoid long explanations in words which students would not understand.
Pictures also help students communicate incomplete information and so they leave space for the students’ imagination and creativity.
Here is an activity on using pictures in an ELT classroom;
Collect full length pictures of people from a clothes catalogue.
Cut off the heads and paste them on small cards.
Cut off the feet (and shoes) paste them on small cards.
Give a collection of cards to a group of students.
Ask them to try to match the heads and feet. Ask them to try to explain the matches they have made.
Please send your reflections on this activity. Mail it to info@eltweekly.com.
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ELTWeekly Issue#11 
March 1st, 2009About... Tarun Patel
This author published 569 posts in this site.Tarun Patel (http://tarunpatel.net/blog/) is an ELT and Communication skills teacher, working with Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT - http://charusat.ac.in/). He has been dealing with the Language learning processes for last seven years. 'Technology in Teaching English' is his favorite domain and he has presented several research papers in national and international conferences on the same theme. He is the founder editor of ELTWeekly (http://eltweekly.com/), India's first weekly ELT eNewsletter which reaches in more than forty countries and benefits more than 1600d teachers of English and Communication Skills. Have a look at his personal blog http://tarunpatel.net/blog/.
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